In reply to Jord's message of 18 Dec 2024:

There's no Beaufort option? Or don't people know what that means anymore?

Beaufort is still used on the shipping forecast that I listen to on Radio4 at 05:20 UTC most mornings.

In reply to Dave's message of 18 Dec 2024:

Km/hour is the metric option for wind speed.

No no no. SI is MKS Meters, Kilograms, Seconds. The metric option is meters a second.

Of course for any practical use it is knots.

Merry Christmas to all

Wakey wakey, Seti Cafe.

Human mode = hibernation

In reply to Jord's message of 12 Jan 2025:

Wakey wakey, Seti Cafe.

Why?

Because it was 18 days of slumber and it's really really cold outside, so I came inside.

In reply to Jord's message of 12 Jan 2025:

Because it was 18 days of slumber and it's really really cold outside, so I came inside.

Well i was busy sleeping inside and now I have been woken and I'm hangry, you better have brought some tasty food.

Fire did not consume my abode. Too much excitement. Now I need sleep.

In reply to W-K ID 666's message of 12 Jan 2025:

In reply to Jord's message of 12 Jan 2025:

Because it was 18 days of slumber and it's really really cold outside, so I came inside.

Well i was busy sleeping inside and now I have been woken and I'm hangry, you better have brought some tasty food.

Sorry, was away with not-my-teenager, but I brought back some bread rolls, slices of cheese, potato salad, stroop koeken (untranslatable) and some digestives (milk chocolate). Dig in.

In reply to Gary Charpentier's message of 12 Jan 2025:

Fire did not consume my abode. Too much excitement. Now I need sleep.

Good news. 🙏🏼

In reply to Jord's message of 12 Jan 2025:

In reply to Gary Charpentier's message of 12 Jan 2025:

Fire did not consume my abode. Too much excitement. Now I need sleep.

Good news. 🙏🏼

For me, not for the other people in the 7000+ structures burned by the Eaton fire.

stroop koeken (untranslatable)

Enjoyed them (home made) visiting friends in Netherlands last year. Plenty of recipes on the interweb if they run out.

In reply to Dave's message of 13 Jan 2025:

stroop koeken (untranslatable)

Enjoyed them (home made) visiting friends in Netherlands last year. Plenty of recipes on the interweb if they run out.

Those are stroopwafels. These are stroopkoeken. Pedantic, but different. 😂

In reply to Gary Charpentier's message of 13 Jan 2025:

In reply to Jord's message of 12 Jan 2025:

In reply to Gary Charpentier's message of 12 Jan 2025:

Fire did not consume my abode. Too much excitement. Now I need sleep.

Good news. 🙏🏼

For me, not for the other people in the 7000+ structures burned by the Eaton fire.

A friend of mine, I just learned, is living in the area as well and still has an evac order hanging above his head. So, still rooting for you all.

For the majority of us who didn't lose everything, life is back to some almost normal routine. Some who didn't lose their abodes still don't have all the utilities. For far too many, they have the clothes on their backs.

Now a new fire burns in the northwest part of the county. We hope for the best.

It's not a good sign when you are getting fire activity like this in what is meant to be your off season for fires.
Hope you get some good late rain, otherwise your official fire season will likely be beyond horrendous...
Good luck.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

In reply to Grant (SSSF)'s message of 23 Jan 2025:

It's not a good sign when you are getting fire activity like this in what is meant to be your off season for fires.
Hope you get some good late rain, otherwise your official fire season will likely be beyond horrendous...
Good luck.

Our fire season is usually the transition between autumn and winter when the wind patterns change from the calm of summer to the storm wind pattern. As the Jet stream moves south we get trapped between high and low pressure areas. The fire season ends with drenching rain, but La Nina this year.

While we need rain, now it has to come slow or the mud will flow.

While we need rain, now it has to come slow or the mud will flow.

It's often a similar problem here- while we don't get mud flows, it's often the case that after major fires, instead of "farmers rain" (nice, steady soaking rain), you'll often get big downpours when it does finally come. Lots of erosion & the topsoil is just washed away.
If it's not a drought, it's floods. Not much in-between these days.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

If it's not a drought, it's floods. Not much in-between these days.

But if climate change were anything but a hoax surely Trump would not be shouting, "DRILL BABY DRILL!"