What's the temperature where you are???

[oldhenlikesdogs]

12*F at 2:02 pm

 

[Brooks_]

52 F. Sunny, at least.

82 (1988) 19 (1977)

 

[Marle94]

28-feels like 18
W Georgia

 

[chrissynemetz]

48°F mostly cloudy and windy
4:22 p.m.

 

[Nym]

Why are the phones not working?

There are no hard-wired phones left in this country, so when the net goes down it all goes down, including mobiles. What a rort. As far as I know, they usually pull these blackouts to do system upgrades. More from that story:

Power is being slowly restored to the outback city, after a freak storm caused catastrophic damage to the transmission infrastructure linking Kalgoorlie to the broader grid.

As of Saturday morning around 4,300 customers remained without power, with 664 in the Goldfields and 1,800 in the Perth Hills and 1,500 in the Wheatbelt.

"It's still a significant amount of customers without supply and we will continue working today and into the weekend to restore those," Western Power's Zane Christmas told ABC radio.

He said there were about 700 operation crews stretched across the network.

Telstra said 10 mobile base stations remained off-air on Saturday, down from 198 earlier in the week.

( ha! Telstra own$ the whole shop! )

The power in Kalgoorlie went out on Wednesday evening, but some parts of the Wheatbelt were cut off on Tuesday.

Doug Daws from Goldfields Masonic Homes was scrambling to find generators to power the Kalgoorlie retirement village when the ABC spoke to him during the blackout.

"It's not been good. We always try and put a brave face on it," he said.

"But some of the old people are struggling a bit."

A long-time community leader in the city, he said the repeated blackouts were frustrating for locals.

"We're tired of the porky pies from Western Power, Synergy and all the other people in this mix," he said.

"They assured us the emergency generator would be ready to fire up. That was a lie — it failed."

 

[MommyGirl]

Gonna get down to 18 tonight we hardly ever see those temperatures!

 

[Nym]

what do the sparkles next to the moons mean???

A conjuction is going to happen! Go to time and date.com to get the info on your location and what you can expect to see. Get excited! lol

Upcoming conjunctions​

January 27, 2024: Mercury-Mars​

In 2024, the planetary conjunction with the least apparent distance (among those visible to the naked eye) will occur on January 27, at 15:48 GMT (11:48 a.m. ET). Mercury (mag -0.2) will pass within 0°12' of Mars (mag 1.3). During this event, the planets will be almost as close as Jupiter and Saturn were during the Great Conjunction in 2020. Both planets will be visible to the naked eye in the morning, just before sunrise. From the Northern Hemisphere, Mars and Mercury will be low above the southeastern horizon in the constellation Sagittarius. From the Southern Hemisphere, the planets will be a little higher.

Star Walk | app available

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[007Sean]

Saturday: 6:18pm, 40°F, feels like 35°F, humidity 34%, wind NE @ 7mph, overcast. The high for today was 42°F. Wind was gusty all day, partly sunny.

 

[kikiruru]

Saturday 636 pm 34 feels 27 and morning forecast

 

[Nym]

Sunday 21st January 10.34a.m. Sunny and Hot! Wind is Light 5.5 / 9.3kph NNE, Hg is 47%, Temp is 24.8c / 75.7F (feels much warmer). Headed for 33c / 91F

Mostly sunny. Light winds becoming north to northeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the afternoon. A cool southerly change 20 to 30 km/h in the late evening, reaching up to 40 km/h near the coast. Perfect!

Moon is 79%

Over the course of the next four months, the Moon will pair up with Jupiter in a string of close approaches during the Moon’s monthly orbit around Earth.

The Moon and Jupiter will pair up in the night sky over the course of the first four months of 2024. ©iStockphoto.comDeniz ilgar

One of the simplest ways to notice a planet is when it appears next to the Moon in the night sky. And for the next four months, we will be in for a (repeating) treat.
As the Moon makes its monthly rounds around Earth, it will sweep by Jupiter’s position around January 18, February 14, March 13, and April 10.

Slightly Different Views at Each Location​

As you look closer at the images below taken from our Night Sky Map, you may notice slight differences in the size of the lit-up part of the Moon, and the distance between the Moon and Jupiter.

This is because, although all observers will see the Moon and Jupiter in the evening, 9 pm in New York comes 16 hours after 9 pm in Sydney. During this time, the Moon has traveled a little bit further in its orbit around Earth.

Your view also depends on whether you are in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere. The orientation of the Moon and Jupiter varies according to your latitude.