What's the temperature where you are???

[SkyAJK]

Sunday 18th of May 9.35a.m. Cold and grey. 15C / 59.2F. Showers developing. Windy. Marine wind + Hazardous surf warnings.

Moon is 71%

Flooding rains, snow ahead for Australia's east, but farmers in South Australia, Victoria miss out again​

1 day ago​

By ABC meteorologist Tom Saunders​

Sydney has seen just three dry days out of the past 25. (ABC News: Tom Saunders)

Heavy rain will drench Australia's east coast next week, but for farmers across drought-ravaged South Australia, Victoria and south-west New South Wales, the long wait for relief continues.

This pattern has become all too familiar since early 2024, a 16-month spell which has delivered nearly 2,200 millimetres of rain to Sydney but only 315mm to Adelaide.

And the disparity between the two regions is about to increase further, as two separate systems lead to a five-day soaking capable of bringing hundreds of millimetres and possible flooding to stretches of the NSW coast.

Heavy rain to prolong wet spell​

Scattered showers and thunderstorms have been ongoing across eastern NSW for nine consecutive days, and Sydney has only recorded three dry days out of the past 25.

While becoming a nuisance, the prolonged spell of damp weather has so far not caused significant flooding. However, the showery activity will increase on Sunday and transition to areas of heavy rain by Monday.

The upgrade will result from a wave of cold air from the Southern Ocean running into relatively warm and humid air off the Tasman Sea.

This interaction will lead to a low-pressure trough deepening off the coast on Monday — the typical set-up for heavy cool season rain along Australia's eastern seaboard.

It's too early to forecast the exact location of the heaviest falls through the later half of the week, but one of the more likely scenarios is the rainband will drift slowly south.

This track down the coast would result in hundreds of millimetres, and possible flooding from Wednesday to Friday from Sydney to the south coast.

 

[SkyAJK]

There are a lot of points of sale for food products here and they are extremely different, and there is no dependence at all on the quality of the price - you can buy some very expensive garbage, or, on the contrary, cheap - quality products. In this regard, it is absolute chaos.Once upon a time, back in the days of the USSR, the government fixed all prices for everything, and anyone who resold something could easily end up in prison (!) as a speculator, this slowed down trade considerably. Now this has been removed - and anyone who is not too lazy trades, and the supplies are also absolutely strange, sometimes local, sometimes from very distant regions, or even imported.

As for air humidity - I once had an electronic barometer showing air humidity, but then it got lost somewhere, and we did not buy a new one. On one wall there are old-style pointer barometers, but if I am not mistaken, they only show atmospheric pressure. I haven't looked at them for a long time, I'll have to see what they show. And I can only estimate the humidity of the air approximately, using electronic incubators, where it is adjusted and then it is visible: if the humidity of the air is higher than the set parameters, then they do not pump water, and if it is lower, they pump and add humidity for the eggs.

Otherwise, the climate here is not humid, but at the same time not dry, like somewhere in the desert. Something in between. Therefore, both heat and cold are not perceived so hard here. Although in winter, with the drop in temperature, the humidity, of course, will drop - the excess "water" in the atmosphere will turn into snow. When the temperature is above the freezing point of water - then, oddly enough, it is worse, because there is high humidity and cold. Therefore, the most dangerous month for colds here is March - when there is no constant frost, but it is damp. And some people, who calmly walked on the street half-naked at -40 C, get a bad cold in March at +5 C from the cold. Therefore, in March it is customary to dress warmer than in winter. Well, then in May the sun shines strongly, and the spring sun is quite harsh - it can even damage the bark of trees. In summer, we can't get as badly sunburned as in spring.

As for the barometers, I didn't really understand how to use them at all - they show rain during rain, storm during storm, hurricane during hurricane, but they don't show anything in advance. I still don't understand what the point is in them, if what they show is already visible from the window )) Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

My understanding of humidity in the air is just feeling it and my dried food stuff have insects in them. When humidity is too high, I can feel the stickiness and the air is thick to breath.

We used to have carpet in the house and when the humidity is high, the carpet feels a bit sticky to walk on. We removed carpet and put in timber and it is better, but in cold season...is not that good.

 

[chrissynemetz]

59°F mostly cloudy and calm
11:49 p.m.

 

[Nym]

7p.m. 12.8C / 55F. Dew point 11C / feels like 7.2C / 45F. Sheep graziers alert added. Wind is 29. 6kph SW gusts.

Warning to Sheep Graziers​

Issued at 4:23 PM EST on Sunday 18 May 2025.

Sheep graziers are warned that cold temperatures, rain and showers, and southerly winds are expected during Sunday and Monday. Areas likely to be affected include parts of the Mid North Coast, Hunter, Illawarra, Central Tablelands, Southern Tablelands, South West Slopes, Snowy Mountains and Australian Capital Territory forecast districts. Heavy rain and showers are also possible about the Mid North Coast and Hunter during Monday. There is a risk of losses of lambs and sheep exposed to these conditions.

 

[Pasha838]

@Pasha838
Do you know this song?

I had it stuck in my head all morning. Nice song

This song was released in the USSR in 1982. It was sung by the singer Alla Pugacheva, who was very popular here in those years.

Subsequently, this singer had a rather unusual life, to the point that for many years she was considered the godfather of the entire Russian musical mafia and most singers would go to her to bow and bless her. To quarrel with her in those years meant to completely end your pop career.

Then, over the years, all this, unfortunately, led to the fact that her character deteriorated greatly, to this was added a noticeable passion for alcohol, the singer for various reasons took offense at the public, deciding that she was not appreciated and not loved, emigrated to Israel and is currently engaged in some kind of litigation with the Russian authorities related to many years of non-payment of taxes for a huge mansion somewhere near Moscow. Well, apparently due to age, she fell into dementia, there is probably no point in voicing the details. Be that as it may, she is not alone, she is looked after by a very faithful husband who is 30 or 40 years younger than her. He is Jewish, so he took her to Israel.

 

[Finchbreeder]

27 C at 5.36Pm on Sunday 18th
And winter is due within the fortnight.

 

[Pasha838]

Whose bread tastes better? Commercial bread additives have changed radically since i was a kid. Bread only had a shelf life of 3 days before mold started appearing along the crust. My nan would simply trim the crusts, which went into the kitchen scrap bin for the Leghorns tea. I actually find it disturbing that 'modern' bread does not mold as a living food should naturally do. I once kept a modern plastic tub of sour cream in the fridge for more than a year, and it never 'turned.' Every few months I tweeted the results back to the maker hahaha. I always add some diometaceous earth to the organic flour I buy.

Here, the standards for baked goods, their shape, recipes, and the ovens themselves are extremely different, there are thousands and thousands of standards, and even according to the same standard, different bakeries can bake slightly differently - someone's bread is slightly crispier, someone's is softer.
At the same time, immigrants from Central Asia "wedged" themselves into bread production, they bake bread using medieval technologies and ovens. The state only checked that their flatbreads were safe, and gave them complete freedom of action.

Bread is eaten in Russia significantly in large quantities, and the sources are also very different - people often manage to buy bread and bake it themselves, depending on their mood or the weather. Whether they want to go to the store for bread or not.

Well, bread flour is also very different - wheat, rye, and even corn. Each flour has its own technology.

Shelf life... They often depend on a whole set of factors. But in any case, bread that goes moldy the day after purchase is not very good. Although, considering that the state "overlooked" it, apparently this bread is safe before the mold appeared. Well, yes, I once had to eat it many times, I did not get sick.

 

[Ponypoor]

Still 12C and overcast. More rain on tap or today. At least it isn’t snow!

 

[007Sean]

Sunday: 5:15am, 79°F, dew point 74°F, humidity 87%, wind SE @ 6mph, cloudy. High today predicted to be 95°F, possible thunderstorms this evening.

 

[kikiruru]

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