That was a short sharp shower! A peak rainfall rate of nearly 200 mm/hr. A good thing it only lasted a couple of minutes or we would have been floating away! ☔
Short Sharp Shower
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First the fog and then the hail
After the day started with thick fog, we were treated to a hailstorm late in the afternoon.
Lots of weather in one day!
Foggy Morning
It was a delightfully foggy morning in Narrabri today. Fog is always good as it means there is plenty of moisture in the air.
The visibility was down to about 50 metres which is about as thick as fog gets around here.
My Christmas Present
I received a Davis Pro weather station for Christmas. Tim insisted we get the cabled version rather than the wireless one as he argues that the data collection is more reliable. My previous weather station, a Digitech, tended to drop out every time the rain blew too hard or when it rained, so he may be right.
The hardest part of the installation was the cabling., which still isn’t finished properly. Being an older house, there are lots of little nooks and crannies (or gaping holes) to shove cables into. Even though the temperature was in the low to mid 30s this morning, the inside of the roof wasn’t too hot, due to the insulation blanket the builder put in when we replaced our roof last year.
We just have to connect the data logger to the server and we will have lots of info on our local weather.
A Day Of Extremes
While Australia was sizzling through a heatwave yesterday, which may or may not have set some records- some of which are up to 20 years old- it was actually snowing in the Sahara Desert.
For more on the snowy Sahara (the second year in a row it snowed there) click here. Jo Nova has the details about why the Sydney heat “record” is less than impressive.
In Narrabri we have the regular “Narrabri Airport sets new record” fairly often because they moved the official weather station from Narrabri West P.O. about 20 years ago,
I think the Bureau of Meteorology needs to stop being a publicity channel for “climate change” and go back to its roots in science- the old variety of trying to be objective as opposed to post-modern, post-truth “science”.
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