What's the temperature where you are???

[Sequoia Raven Bird Farms]

Today it's going to be 3°C! Awesome

 

[Sequoia Raven Bird Farms]

Not today, but a few weeks ago in January, Ab Canada was the coldest place in the world for one night.... Crazy! -50°C

For scale the South pole is -60°C and the North Pole is -40°C normally.

 

[chrissynemetz]

45°F mostly cloudy and calm
12:29 p.m.

 

[MamaPoult]

It was like almost fifty yesterday

 

[Jenbirdee]

 

[kikiruru]

62 at

203pm Friday light rain off and on this morning and heavy to drizzle since 11 am

 

[EmmaDonovan]

2:00 PM
73F
14% humidity
sunny with a few clouds

Still some snow up in the mountains.

 

[Nomadicus]

58° and feels like 57° with light rain

 

[kikiruru]

714 pm Friday 59F

 

[Nym]

Saturday 17th February 11.53a.m. Sunny & warm Light wind 5.5 / 7.4kph ENE, Hg is 58%, Temp 24.2c / 75.6F headed for 28c / 82F Shower or two.

Moon is 55%

Rats swarm outback Queensland towns after flooding rain​

5 hours ago​

The proliferation of rats in Longreach is due to recent flooding in Western Queensland. (ABC Western Queensland: Grace Nakamura)

Swarms of native bush rats keen for a quick feed – or a swim – are scurrying into towns in Western Queensland.

The outback landscape is flourishing after flooding rain, but the conditions have also attracted some unwelcome guests.

In Longreach and surrounding towns locals are fishing rodents out of their swimming pools as they try to bring the exploding numbers under control.

Resident Bianca Goodman returned from a morning walk to find some uninvited visitors had made themselves at home.

"I thought I had two rats in the pool, but as I looked, I counted seven swimming around, quite happy," she said.

"Wasn't my finest or quietest moment when I was trying to scoop them out.

"[I let out] a bit of a scream as they were trying to climb out of the pool net."

'Looks like a plague'​

Professor Fran Sheldon, the head of Griffith University's school of environment and science, said the rodents were probably native long-haired bush rats called Rattus villosissimus.

"When you get grass growing and you get a lot of feed, the rats boom and … it looks like a plague," she said.

"You'll then get the predatory birds and dingoes that will come out and start eating the rats."

Professor Sheldon said the the rats would turn tail when the landscape returned to its usual dry state.

"They just live off grass and other feed — they'll disappear when the feed disappears," she said.

"It's all part of the normal boom and bust that you get in floodplain river systems."

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