What's the temperature where you are???

[Nym]

Friday 5th April 11.32a.m. Cool, grey and wet. Heavy falls o'nite. 24.1 / 38.9kph SE, Hg 69% , 20.8C / 69.4F top of 21C / 70F. Rain. Heavy falls. Bleak

Moon is 19.2% New moon period and it's looking to be a rough ride here.

Sheep graziers alert. Hazardous surf. Severe weather warning (thunder / rain). Marine wind warning. Flood watch along river towns.

High resolution modelling of rain from 11pm Thursday to 11am Saturday. >200mm for much of Sydney and the Illawarra.

There I am, under the dark blue zone - Wollongong / Illawarra.

 

[Nomadicus]

52° and clear. Should be in the low 40's soon now.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

My friend in Queensland used to get carpet pythons all the time at her place. They would hide under her outdoor lounge setting. A few times a bird actually alerted her to the python snoozing beneath her seat lol. They are harmless but unnerving all the same:

I'll take a python over a pit viper ANY day (diamondback rattlesnakes are pit vipers).

Pythons you can literally just pick up with your hands and move, like the guy did in the video (obviously only if you know what you're doing).

No one in their right mind picks up a pit viper with their bare hands!

 

[TXchickmum]

57 at 4:10 AM. High of 84 predicted for today

 

[007Sean]

Friday: 4:40am, 58°F, humidity 60%, wind W @ 3mph, clear.

 

[007Sean]

2:45 PM
89F
5% humidity
sunny

Snakes have emerged from hibernation. There's been a lot of rain, which means a lot of plant growth, which means an explosion in the population of things that eat plants, which means an explosion in the population of things that eat the things that eat plants... like rattlesnakes. Very active, very scary rattlesnakes.

This is a Western diamondback, very common in southern Arizona. They can be up to 7 feet long and live virtually anywhere and everywhere.

They have a nasty venom and rarely use their rattles so you don't know they're there until they strike. Their venom can be deadly to humans. As the saying goes, if their venom doesn't kill you it will make you wish you were dead.

Keeping chickens means keeping an outdoor buffet for rattlesnakes so we have to be really careful.

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We have those and Copperheads, Cotton Mouth Water Moccasins, and Coral snakes.
Only the Cooperheads and Rattlesnakes get in my pens, to get the mice....but still pretty unnerving when you step into a pen and there it is right by the feeder....especially when I feed before I leave for work in the mornings, having to use a flash light to see!

 

[Jenbirdee]

6 am

 

[Grannys Backyard Chicks]

Sorry, I was on the beginning of the thread posting likes. Not enough coffee this morning..

48° clear skies high 76°

 

[Nym]

friday 9p.m. raining and windy. No dog walk today, the first time in a long time. One of the Araucana girls was quite bedraggled by the time I got her in the coop. The bantams always take themselves to their tractor when it starts raining. Hg 69%, 21C / 69.8F

The forecast: A deluge will arrive overnight across parts of Sydney and the Illawarra, Blue Mountains and Hunter leading to severe flash flooding and rapid river rises, including up to 220mm in 6 hours on the Illawarra Escarpment.

 

[Grannys Backyard Chicks]

Somewhere I read a snake won't cross over a garden hose. Any thoughts?