What's the temperature where you are???

[sourland]

60F and raining at 7:30 PM

 

[Ponypoor]

It was windy and chilly all day, currently it’s 12C (53f). Not so very good weather for May.

And doesn’t look like the rest of the week is much better.

 

[Nym]

Sounds like your Autumn is a miserable one. Like our Spring.

The rain is miserable but the temp ended up hitting 20C yest, so I took the dogs out and found the park packed with ppl. The warm air current flowing through was something else. The dogs and i had a nice long walk .. it's amazing what a clear horizon can do for walking time. Back to dreary today. Hoping yours is better!

 

[Nym]

Sunday 25th of May 10.37a.m. grey overcast. 16.7 / 24.1kph NW - warm air ( at the beach; calm here), Hg 60%, 16.7C / 62.1F top of 20C / 68F. Real feel of 13C / 55.4F Mostly sunny (no sun). Marine wind warning. Final flood watch.

Moon is 4%

Floods on one end, drought on the other. Is this Australia's climate future?​

5 hours ago​

By the climate team's Jess Davis and Tyne Logan​

As towns flood on one end of Australia, large areas further south are experiencing their worst drought on record. The people in these regions are preparing for life in a future climate.

Above the rolling hills of Victoria's Central Highlands, grey clouds gather.

But once again, they will fail to bring the substantial rain the region so desperately needs.

Normally green paddocks have been replaced by dirt and dust.

While endless days of rain and floods inundate the east coast, this is the reality of life in large swathes of southern Australia right now.

Farmer Charlie de Fegely is bringing in 60 tonnes of feed every 10 days for his flock of 10,000 sheep. There is nothing left for them to graze on at his property near Ararat.

"The B-double [trucks] are coming in quite regularly, we think each load is the last one," he says.

"But, not at the moment."

For the second year in a row, the traditional Autumn break — the first significant rainfall before the winter growing season — is yet to arrive.

Charlie has lived through four major droughts, the first when he was just 12 years old in 1967.

In 1982, he remembers shooting sheep in the paddock for weeks and dust storms that stretched to Melbourne.

But this prolonged dry period is the worst Charlie has seen, worse even than the Millennium Drought, which hit hardest here in 2006.

"This is probably the toughest couple of years I've had," Charlie says.

"All the others were just a failed winter, failed spring, and it broke the following autumn.

"This is by far the worst."

 

[Ponypoor]

The rain is miserable but the temp ended up hitting 20C yest, so I took the dogs out and found the park packed with ppl. The warm air current flowing through was something else. The dogs and i had a nice long walk .. it's amazing what a clear horizon can do for walking time. Back to dreary today. Hoping yours is better!

Cold north wind but the rain stopped. It’s no warm though, we should be at least hitting 20C with warm overnight temps. But it more like March weather here.

 

[Ponypoor]

Sunday 25th of May 10.37a.m. grey overcast. 16.7 / 24.1kph NW - warm air ( at the beach; calm here), Hg 60%, 16.7C / 62.1F top of 20C / 68F. Real feel of 13C / 55.4F Mostly sunny (no sun). Marine wind warning. Final flood watch.

Moon is 4%

Floods on one end, drought on the other. Is this Australia's climate future?​

5 hours ago​

By the climate team's Jess Davis and Tyne Logan​

As towns flood on one end of Australia, large areas further south are experiencing their worst drought on record. The people in these regions are preparing for life in a future climate.

Above the rolling hills of Victoria's Central Highlands, grey clouds gather.

But once again, they will fail to bring the substantial rain the region so desperately needs.

Normally green paddocks have been replaced by dirt and dust.

While endless days of rain and floods inundate the east coast, this is the reality of life in large swathes of southern Australia right now.

Farmer Charlie de Fegely is bringing in 60 tonnes of feed every 10 days for his flock of 10,000 sheep. There is nothing left for them to graze on at his property near Ararat.

"The B-double [trucks] are coming in quite regularly, we think each load is the last one," he says.

"But, not at the moment."

For the second year in a row, the traditional Autumn break — the first significant rainfall before the winter growing season — is yet to arrive.

Charlie has lived through four major droughts, the first when he was just 12 years old in 1967.

In 1982, he remembers shooting sheep in the paddock for weeks and dust storms that stretched to Melbourne.

But this prolonged dry period is the worst Charlie has seen, worse even than the Millennium Drought, which hit hardest here in 2006.

"This is probably the toughest couple of years I've had," Charlie says.

"All the others were just a failed winter, failed spring, and it broke the following autumn.

"This is by far the worst."

Tragic. I would sell my sheep if this was the case. Don’t know how he is breaking even on those costs.

 

[chrissynemetz]

62°F mostly clear and breezy
10:14 p.m.

 

[007Sean]

Saturday: almost Sunday: 11:27pm, 81°F, dew point 73°F, humidity 81%, wind SE @ 13mph, clear. Today's high was 97°F