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......Yep in this case dry is better than wet ...
ROCKMAN
Looks like Perth is the place to be....until Saturday, then fly to Melbourne
it gets even hotter when Rockman is struttin his stuff
Dig a deep hole........ at least 5 meters deep.....isn't there a place in Australia where they life underground
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THE AUSTRALIAN ------------------ 17 January 2014
ROCKMAN
Absolutely horrific,I feel for all those people in the vicinity of those fires,and for the firies trying to control them.Let's hope we don't see another Black Saturday,or Ash Wednesday.
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Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Rockman
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Date: January 13, 2014 23:46
......Yep in this case dry is better than wet ...
ROCKMAN
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
BluzDude
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Date: January 14, 2014 03:08
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Rockman
......Yep in this case dry is better than wet ...
Looks like Perth is the place to be....until Saturday, then fly to Melbourne
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
boynamedsue69
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Date: January 14, 2014 03:14
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BluzDudeQuote
Rockman
......Yep in this case dry is better than wet ...
Looks like Perth is the place to be....until Saturday, then fly to Melbourne
it gets even hotter when Rockman is struttin his stuff
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
NICOS
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Date: January 15, 2014 00:23
46C ? Man............
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Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Rockman
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Date: January 15, 2014 00:29
.....YEP 46c --- Adelaide is one hot town ....
ROCKMAN
ROCKMAN
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
BluzDude
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Date: January 15, 2014 00:48
Ouch!
How can you sleep when your beds are burninhg?
How can you sleep when your beds are burninhg?
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
NICOS
()
Date: January 15, 2014 01:16
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BluzDude
Ouch!
How can you sleep when your beds are burninhg?
Dig a deep hole........ at least 5 meters deep.....isn't there a place in Australia where they life underground
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Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Stoneage
()
Date: January 15, 2014 01:20
Stay in the shade, Rockie. Or go and take a swim with the sharks...
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
BluzDude
()
Date: January 15, 2014 01:26
Quote
NICOSQuote
BluzDude
Ouch!
How can you sleep when your beds are burninhg?
Dig a deep hole........ at least 5 meters deep.....isn't there a place in Australia where they life underground
Are you thinking of Rockman's bunker? ( which I am honored to say I have visited).
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Rockman
()
Date: January 15, 2014 01:40
which I am honored to say I have visited). Hey Yeah Al you have been here ... and I've had a beer in your USA cabin .... Good Times...
isn't there a place in Australia where they life underground
Yeah mate the opal mining town of Cooper Pedy ...underground is about the only way you'd survive out there ...
years ago had ta wait for plane repairs about 5 mile out of Cooper Pedy ...man it was HOT... earth was a-shimmering and not a tree in sight
ROCKMAN
isn't there a place in Australia where they life underground
Yeah mate the opal mining town of Cooper Pedy ...underground is about the only way you'd survive out there ...
years ago had ta wait for plane repairs about 5 mile out of Cooper Pedy ...man it was HOT... earth was a-shimmering and not a tree in sight
ROCKMAN
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
latebloomer
()
Date: January 15, 2014 23:30
As Jamie Escalante says...
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Stoneage
()
Date: January 16, 2014 00:06
Speaking of bears. Did you see the Toronto Zoo polar bear cub?
At last some positive news from that town for a while...
Toronto Zoo, Polar Bear Cub
At last some positive news from that town for a while...
Toronto Zoo, Polar Bear Cub
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Rockman
()
Date: January 16, 2014 22:36
THE AUSTRALIAN ------------------ 17 January 2014
ROCKMAN
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
klrkcr
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Date: January 16, 2014 23:38
Quote
Rockman
THE AUSTRALIAN ------------------ 17 January 2014
Absolutely horrific,I feel for all those people in the vicinity of those fires,and for the firies trying to control them.Let's hope we don't see another Black Saturday,or Ash Wednesday.
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Rockman
()
Date: January 17, 2014 00:08
Let's hope we don't see another Black Saturday,or Ash Wednesday.
Yeah klrkcr .... as long as strong winds don't get up today hopefully
the whole place will hold together and there won't be any lose of lives or homes....
ROCKMAN
Yeah klrkcr .... as long as strong winds don't get up today hopefully
the whole place will hold together and there won't be any lose of lives or homes....
ROCKMAN
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: January 17, 2014 00:20
Finally... Snow! 
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Stoneage
()
Date: January 17, 2014 01:34
About the desert temperatures in Australia: A large part of the Australian population are limeys (or limey descendants). Limeys and the sun do not mix very well. How do they cope year after year?
There must be a very high ratio of melanoma?
There must be a very high ratio of melanoma?
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: January 17, 2014 01:42
Growing accustomed?
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Stoneage
()
Date: January 17, 2014 01:44
Yeah, Dandelion. That's probably it...
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
latebloomer
()
Date: January 17, 2014 04:51
Had to share these gorgeous pictures, figured this was the best place...they'll cool and calm you if you're suffering in the heat and warm your heart if you're shivering in the cold.
More pics here:
[www.boredpanda.com]
More pics here:
[www.boredpanda.com]
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
latebloomer
()
Date: January 18, 2014 00:21
Players Are Not Cool With Australian Open Heat Policy
Tennis fans cooled off as the heat wave continued into day five of the Australian Open in Melbourne. Paul Crock/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
MELBOURNE, Australia — The Australian Sauna Championships continued Friday, disguised as a Grand Slam tennis tournament. Advancement here depended on survival, on remaining upright, on shade and hydration and on the coolest accessory in sports, something called an ice vest.
Much of the first week of the Australian Open had unfolded like an extreme sport.
For four days, starting Tuesday, the temperature climbed over 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). It was the longest heat wave in the Melbourne area in more than 100 years, according to the Herald Sun. The newspaper said 243 people had gone to the hospital for heat exhaustion — and that was before the oppressive temperatures continued Friday.
At the Open in those four days, one player hallucinated and fainted, while another vomited; the soles of one player’s sneakers melted, as did the bottom of another player’s water bottle; cramps were common, as were complaints from stars and journeymen alike. One such complaint came from Ivan Dodig of Croatia, who said he had wondered whether he would die on court.
The takeaway was less about the temperatures and more about the gulf that widened over the week between the way officials attempted to portray the impact of the heat wave and what actually happened with the players. The tournament chose the nothing-to-see-here approach, and the longer that went on, the more absurd that seemed, amid the sea of red faces and collapsed bodies and heads balancing ice packs the way a model would a book.
This was an actual quote from Dr. Tim Wood, the tournament’s chief medical officer, to the BBC: “We’ve evolved on the high plains of Africa chasing antelope for eight hours under these conditions.”
And this was an actual quote from a Canadian player named Frank Dancevic: “I was dizzy from the middle of the first set, and then I saw Snoopy and I thought, ‘Wow, Snoopy, that’s weird."’
Wood, in the BBC interview, said that from a “medical perspective,” man had long adapted to exercise in extreme heat. He finished that thought with, “Whether it is humane or not is a whole other issue.”
That showed the disconnect between the players and the tournament. That showed the disconnect between officials and reality. See the logic? It was hard to.
Whether anything is humane or not should be the whole issue. This is professional tennis, not modern warfare, or indentured servitude. Humanity should be a baseline consideration.
Even if in that instance Wood simply misspoke, his comments fit into a larger pattern from tournament officials. While Andy Murray called the conditions “inhumane” and other players complained of a lack of information or a confusing “extreme heat policy,” the Open continued to issue news releases citing the lack of players who had called for medical attention.
In other words, no one died!
Even as I typed that, television cameras zoomed in on Rod Laver Arena, where trainers attended to Jie Zheng of China. They rubbed ice on her arms and legs as she lay flat on her back. Her eyes were glassy. They took her temperature. She returned to the court but lost to Casey Dellacqua of Australia. Neither of them chased any antelope.
That prompted an obvious question. Why not close the roof? What was the point in keeping it open? To optimize the suffering? To maximize the heat?
Wood maintained that tennis players are at relatively low risk in extreme heat, compared with athletes in other sports, like those who run long distances. But it would seem, logically at least, that all who chase tennis balls in 100-degree temps would be at some risk, at an increased risk, compared with those who sit on a couch or play in cooler conditions.
Oh, the inhumanity.
What to make, then, of the nine players who retired in the first round of the singles tournaments, tying a record for a Grand Slam in the Open Era.
What to make, then, of Karin Knapp, an Italian player who had undergone two heart surgeries. She played 50 minutes against Maria Sharapova after the implementation Thursday of the extreme heat policy, which shut play down for more than four hours on the outside courts.
It was 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit). But while the policy stated that the roof at Laver would be closed at the conclusion of the current set, it failed to take into account that third sets for women and fifth sets for men last until a player wins by two games. They can go on indefinitely. In this case, Sharapova prevailed, 10-8.
Sharapova openly questioned afterward the lack of information available to players from the tournament. She noted that she received her first weather-related correspondence after her marathon match, while in the ice bath — “That’s,” she said, “a little too late.”
And what to make, then, of Jamie Murray, Andy’s brother, who reportedly suffered heatstroke on Thursday in a doubles match. He reportedly required two hours of treatment afterward.
The problem is not so much that the temperatures soared this week. Players expect heat at the Australian Open, a tournament largely defined by suffering.
When you think of the first tennis Grand Slam each year, you think about Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal and 50-shot rallies and six-hour matches.
Often that heat is accompanied by less humidity than players would experience later in the season, when they enter tournaments in Washington and Cincinnati and New York. Those American cities can feel even hotter.
“If it was humid here, it would be an even bigger danger to players,” said Justin Gimelstob, a Tennis Channel analyst.
“But, I mean, it’s oppressive out there. It’s stifling.”
If the players are going to expect high temperatures, they should also expect a clearly defined policy on when matches will be stopped, frequent updates and the smallest hint of recognition that what they are being asked to do is difficult. Even if they are not chasing antelopes.
A little humanity goes a long way, especially in a heat wave.
Hallucination Snoopy said so.
Link to full article:
[www.nytimes.com]
Tennis fans cooled off as the heat wave continued into day five of the Australian Open in Melbourne. Paul Crock/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
MELBOURNE, Australia — The Australian Sauna Championships continued Friday, disguised as a Grand Slam tennis tournament. Advancement here depended on survival, on remaining upright, on shade and hydration and on the coolest accessory in sports, something called an ice vest.
Much of the first week of the Australian Open had unfolded like an extreme sport.
For four days, starting Tuesday, the temperature climbed over 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). It was the longest heat wave in the Melbourne area in more than 100 years, according to the Herald Sun. The newspaper said 243 people had gone to the hospital for heat exhaustion — and that was before the oppressive temperatures continued Friday.
At the Open in those four days, one player hallucinated and fainted, while another vomited; the soles of one player’s sneakers melted, as did the bottom of another player’s water bottle; cramps were common, as were complaints from stars and journeymen alike. One such complaint came from Ivan Dodig of Croatia, who said he had wondered whether he would die on court.
The takeaway was less about the temperatures and more about the gulf that widened over the week between the way officials attempted to portray the impact of the heat wave and what actually happened with the players. The tournament chose the nothing-to-see-here approach, and the longer that went on, the more absurd that seemed, amid the sea of red faces and collapsed bodies and heads balancing ice packs the way a model would a book.
This was an actual quote from Dr. Tim Wood, the tournament’s chief medical officer, to the BBC: “We’ve evolved on the high plains of Africa chasing antelope for eight hours under these conditions.”
And this was an actual quote from a Canadian player named Frank Dancevic: “I was dizzy from the middle of the first set, and then I saw Snoopy and I thought, ‘Wow, Snoopy, that’s weird."’
Wood, in the BBC interview, said that from a “medical perspective,” man had long adapted to exercise in extreme heat. He finished that thought with, “Whether it is humane or not is a whole other issue.”
That showed the disconnect between the players and the tournament. That showed the disconnect between officials and reality. See the logic? It was hard to.
Whether anything is humane or not should be the whole issue. This is professional tennis, not modern warfare, or indentured servitude. Humanity should be a baseline consideration.
Even if in that instance Wood simply misspoke, his comments fit into a larger pattern from tournament officials. While Andy Murray called the conditions “inhumane” and other players complained of a lack of information or a confusing “extreme heat policy,” the Open continued to issue news releases citing the lack of players who had called for medical attention.
In other words, no one died!
Even as I typed that, television cameras zoomed in on Rod Laver Arena, where trainers attended to Jie Zheng of China. They rubbed ice on her arms and legs as she lay flat on her back. Her eyes were glassy. They took her temperature. She returned to the court but lost to Casey Dellacqua of Australia. Neither of them chased any antelope.
That prompted an obvious question. Why not close the roof? What was the point in keeping it open? To optimize the suffering? To maximize the heat?
Wood maintained that tennis players are at relatively low risk in extreme heat, compared with athletes in other sports, like those who run long distances. But it would seem, logically at least, that all who chase tennis balls in 100-degree temps would be at some risk, at an increased risk, compared with those who sit on a couch or play in cooler conditions.
Oh, the inhumanity.
What to make, then, of the nine players who retired in the first round of the singles tournaments, tying a record for a Grand Slam in the Open Era.
What to make, then, of Karin Knapp, an Italian player who had undergone two heart surgeries. She played 50 minutes against Maria Sharapova after the implementation Thursday of the extreme heat policy, which shut play down for more than four hours on the outside courts.
It was 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit). But while the policy stated that the roof at Laver would be closed at the conclusion of the current set, it failed to take into account that third sets for women and fifth sets for men last until a player wins by two games. They can go on indefinitely. In this case, Sharapova prevailed, 10-8.
Sharapova openly questioned afterward the lack of information available to players from the tournament. She noted that she received her first weather-related correspondence after her marathon match, while in the ice bath — “That’s,” she said, “a little too late.”
And what to make, then, of Jamie Murray, Andy’s brother, who reportedly suffered heatstroke on Thursday in a doubles match. He reportedly required two hours of treatment afterward.
The problem is not so much that the temperatures soared this week. Players expect heat at the Australian Open, a tournament largely defined by suffering.
When you think of the first tennis Grand Slam each year, you think about Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal and 50-shot rallies and six-hour matches.
Often that heat is accompanied by less humidity than players would experience later in the season, when they enter tournaments in Washington and Cincinnati and New York. Those American cities can feel even hotter.
“If it was humid here, it would be an even bigger danger to players,” said Justin Gimelstob, a Tennis Channel analyst.
“But, I mean, it’s oppressive out there. It’s stifling.”
If the players are going to expect high temperatures, they should also expect a clearly defined policy on when matches will be stopped, frequent updates and the smallest hint of recognition that what they are being asked to do is difficult. Even if they are not chasing antelopes.
A little humanity goes a long way, especially in a heat wave.
Hallucination Snoopy said so.
Link to full article:
[www.nytimes.com]
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Rockman
()
Date: January 19, 2014 03:21
THE AGE -------------- 19 January 2014
ROCKMAN
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Rockman
()
Date: January 19, 2014 03:29
THE AGE -------------- 19 January 2014
ROCKMAN
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
ryanpow
()
Date: January 19, 2014 03:36
Still no rain in sight in California. A statewide drought has been declared. Its been the driest year on record, going back 150 years. The previous records haven't just been broken, they've been shattered. At least we don't have extreme heat.
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Rockman
()
Date: January 19, 2014 03:37
HERALD SUN --------------- 19 January 2014
ROCKMAN
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
ryanpow
()
Date: January 19, 2014 03:58
Wow, That looks effing crazy! Something out of a movie.
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Stoneage
()
Date: January 19, 2014 08:40
-23 centigrade today. High, crisp air and fresh fallen snow. Finally some winter!
Re: OT: Weather around the world
Posted by:
Green Lady
()
Date: January 19, 2014 16:35
Quote
ryanpow
Still no rain in sight in California. A statewide drought has been declared. Its been the driest year on record, going back 150 years. The previous records haven't just been broken, they've been shattered. At least we don't have extreme heat.
Would you like some of ours? We've had enough and to spare around here.
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