What's the temperature where you are???

[Jenbirdee]

1:15 PM
103F
4% humidity
sunny

Sink scorpion.

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is it a vinegaroon? I remember when I went out to check my garden at night felt something on my leg looked down with the flashlight, and there was one crawling up.

 

[Nym]

1:15 PM
103F
4% humidity
sunny

Sink scorpion.

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I saw this doco on a scorpion-eating bat the other nite. These bats are tiny and stalk the scorpion. The scorpion freezes, hoping to avoid capture. It was really cool to see. At the end the makers showed the several set-ups it took to get the bats acting naturally enough to hunt and stalk. All animals were released after filming.

 

[Jenbirdee]

 

[Patiocoturnix]

93°F
73% humidity

90°F inside

 

[Debbie292d]

H: 82F
L: 59F
45%
Clear and sunny

 

[EmmaDonovan]

My cat kills a lot of them. I always worry she will get stung, but so far so good.

Cats are famously good at killing them, seemingly without getting hurt. Clever cats.

Some people go outside at night with a black light flashlight and collect scorpions to give to their chickens (they remove the stingers first, I don't know how).

The southern grasshopper mouse is a desert mouse that has a protein that prevents the pain signal from bark scorpion venom from reaching their brains. They hunt and eat bark scorpions. They also howl at the moon.

Researchers are studying that protein to see if it can help humans with chronic pain.

 

[Nym]

Friday 14th of June 10.45a.m. Heavy dew o'nite. Grey cloud cover. 14.8 / 20.4kph SW, Hg 45%, 14.8C / 58.6F top of 16C / 61F. Showers increasing. Marine wind warning.

Moon is 48.3%

Prolonged cold snap across eastern Australia to last at least a week​

5 hours ago​

By ABC meteorologist Tom Saunders​

Snow now covers the NSW Snowy Mountains following fresh snowfalls this week. (Source: SMSkier)

South-east Australia is collectively shivering through a prolonged spell of bleak wintry weather — a pattern that will linger for at least another week.

Yesterday was so cold in parts of south-west New South Wales and Victoria that a handful of locations shivered to their lowest maximum in years, including Melbourne where the high only reached 10.1 degrees Celsius, the city's coldest day in five years.

It was even colder in the NSW Riverina where Griffith only managed a top of 9.2C, 6 below average and the town's lowest maximum in eight years.

Temperatures today will again remain below average across many regions, with the most extreme anomalies under thick cloud and rain from south-east SA, through western and central Victoria to southern NSW.

Like yesterday, a handful of towns today could record their lowest maximum in years, struggling to even reach double digits.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

is it a vinegaroon? I remember when I went out to check my garden at night felt something on my leg looked down with the flashlight, and there was one crawling up.

No, we have vinegaroons but they're black and have super thin whip tails.

 

[Brooks_]

is it a vinegaroon? I remember when I went out to check my garden at night felt something on my leg looked down with the flashlight, and there was one crawling up.

No, we have vinegaroons but they're black and have super thin whip tails.

 

[Ponypoor]

Stay safe, Kelly! And check in with us when you can.

Power is out - the genny cut in so have power and thus internet - have to keep one’s priorities straight

We have a squall line go through which knocked the power out somewhere, and it’s a large area affected so I am sure there was some major damage somewhere.

Anyway I went to the barn and check horses, chooks, barn, property and house - everything is good. I think the worst should be past us. But it’s still warm and humid, and we are still under a tornado watch.

21:33hrs
19C (65F) and 88% humidity.
Tornado watch remains in effect