What's the temperature where you are???

[Nym]

Sunday 8th of June 10.57a.m. Sunny and windy. 27.8 / 51.8kph WNW, Hg 38%, 13.8C / 58.3F top of 16C / 61F. Partly cloudy (no clouds). Sheep Graziers alert, hazardous surf, marine wind warnings. The temp dropped from 14.8C to 13.8C while I was typing this.

Moon is 93%

"It's snowing and we're skiing"​

At Mount Buller, opening day was met with 7cm of fresh snow, taking the resort's average depth to well over 30cm.

"Things are looking about as good as you could have hoped for on the opening day of the ski season," Mt Buller spokesperson Rhylla Morgan said.

"This morning there was 7cm of fresh snow in the gauge, and it's only been growing throughout the day. It basically hasn't stopped."

Ms Morgan said opening weekend conditions had been boosted by a huge pre-season snowmaking effort, with the resort making 15,000 cubic metres of snow last month.

"It has really helped build a beautiful snow foundation," she said.

"It's snowing, and we are skiing. It's wonderful."

 

[azurbanclucker]

Hot and dry - when is the monsoon season there?

Soon. 15 June - 30 Sept.

 

[Nym]

It’s been very dry and unseasonably hot out west this Spring, add to that a lack of snow pack from the winter, and the forests are tinder dry.

Then to make things worse in the Boreal Forest fire can and does smoulder under ground in the muskeg (bogs) dry peat. It will creep along under ground until it bursts through a dead tree, and all those coniferous trees are full of pitch which burns like crazy. The trees go up like Roman candles.

Of course fire is a part of the forest, the seed cones need the fire to crack open the cones so new trees germinate and grow.

Peat bogs and pitch ... a deadly combo, and one I couldn't imagine; not sure if we have such areas here. Yes, most of our natives also need fire to germinate. The Royal National Park always looks loveley after the fires sprout new life.

 

[Debbie292d]

66F, low 53F.

It's been so nice here. Not hot, yet, and not too cool.

 

[Nomadicus]

82° and clear

 

[Ponypoor]

Sunday 8th of June 10.57a.m. Sunny and windy. 27.8 / 51.8kph WNW, Hg 38%, 13.8C / 58.3F top of 16C / 61F. Partly cloudy (no clouds). Sheep Graziers alert, hazardous surf, marine wind warnings. The temp dropped from 14.8C to 13.8C while I was typing this.

Moon is 93%

"It's snowing and we're skiing"​

At Mount Buller, opening day was met with 7cm of fresh snow, taking the resort's average depth to well over 30cm.

"Things are looking about as good as you could have hoped for on the opening day of the ski season," Mt Buller spokesperson Rhylla Morgan said.

"This morning there was 7cm of fresh snow in the gauge, and it's only been growing throughout the day. It basically hasn't stopped."

Ms Morgan said opening weekend conditions had been boosted by a huge pre-season snowmaking effort, with the resort making 15,000 cubic metres of snow last month.

"It has really helped build a beautiful snow foundation," she said.

"It's snowing, and we are skiing. It's wonderful."

I always find it fascinating that while I suffer in winter others bask in summer heat, and when I am enjoying sunny warm weather, there are those ‘enjoying’ snow.

For me snow is a ‘four’ letter word!

 

[Ponypoor]

Peat bogs and pitch ... a deadly combo, and one I couldn't imagine; not sure if we have such areas here. Yes, most of our natives also need fire to germinate. The Royal National Park always looks loveley after the fires sprout new life.

Too much of a good thing is not welcome though.

The forests here when they burn, give way to deciduous trees - alders (Poplar) which grow incredibly fast and are very green. Those forests don’t burn as easy.

 

[chrissynemetz]

48°F mostly clear and calm
1:56 a.m.