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According to the BoM radar, it's moving towards our fair city at a rapid rate of knots.
http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR022.loop.shtml

Ecchhhh, time to get those thermals, over booties and Gore-tex jackets out of storage.

On 2006-04-05, cfsmtb (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>
> According to the BoM radar, it's moving towards our fair city at a rapid
> rate of knots.
> http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR022.loop.shtml

That's not so bad. But that head wind was a real bugger.

The forecast is more imonous:

Warning Summary
A gale warning is current for Port Phillip and Western Port.
A severe weather warning has been issued for damaging winds.

Forecast for Wednesday
Fine at first. Showers developing this afternoon with the risk of hail or
thunder later. Mostly cloudy with strengthening northwesterly winds shifting
strong and squally west to southwesterly this afternoon.



Bugger -- squally headwind here, squally headwind back. I'm going to
have to hunt down Ghod and do Him some damage. That, or move north of
the city. You guys have it so easy.

--
TimC
"I give up," said Pierre de Fermat's friend. "How DO you keep a
mathematician busy for 350 years?"

cfsmtb wrote:
> According to the BoM radar, it's moving towards our fair city at a rapid
> rate of knots.
> http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR022.loop.shtml
>
> Ecchhhh, time to get those thermals, over booties and Gore-tex jackets
> out of storage.
>
>

Err yes, I stand by my statement to bring on winter. Alas I stand by it
in very wet shoes (time to get in the habit of packing the booties each
morning).

DaveB

cfsmtb wrote:
> According to the BoM radar, it's moving towards our fair city at a rapid
> rate of knots.
> http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR022.loop.shtml
>
> Ecchhhh, time to get those thermals, over booties and Gore-tex jackets
> out of storage.

You mean the ones that live in my panniers?

Never trust the weather!
--
Cheers | ~~ __@
Euan | ~~ _-\<,
Melbourne, Australia | ~ (*)/ (*)

On 2006-04-05, DaveB (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> cfsmtb wrote:
>> According to the BoM radar, it's moving towards our fair city at a rapid
>> rate of knots.
>> http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR022.loop.shtml
>>
>> Ecchhhh, time to get those thermals, over booties and Gore-tex jackets
>> out of storage.
>
> Err yes, I stand by my statement to bring on winter. Alas I stand by it
> in very wet shoes (time to get in the habit of packing the booties each
> morning).

Heh. My doctor is across the road, and just down the street. Maybe
100m. And yet, I had to do this just after that enormous front was
passing through -- not a complete downpour, but enough to get me
drenched by the time I made it safely in the entrance.


During the downpour itself, I was waiting in line to get some free
fairy floss, trying not to be too queer in the queer festival. The
girl behind said it was kinda embarassing to be there

Fortunately, it was all undercover for the trip back to my office --
fairy floss doesn't consist of much when it gets wet.

--
TimC
Special Relativity: The person in the other queue thinks yours is
moving faster.

"Euan" wrote:
> cfsmtb wrote:

>> Ecchhhh, time to get those thermals, over booties and Gore-tex jackets
>> out of storage.
>
> You mean the ones that live in my panniers?
>
> Never trust the weather!

Occh ayy, that's just your good Scottish training, Euan :-)

--
Cheers
Peter

~~~ ~ _@
~~ ~ _- \,
~~ (*)/ (*)

Heh, I was in a garage with a metal roof wen that lot went over. It was just starting to get cold, so the welding we were doing provided some welcome warmth. I say welding - there was a welder involved and two bit of metal were joined together with it so I suppose that's technically welding... There's something cozy about a noisy metal roof shielding you from a downpour, even if it is a bit cold.

On 2006-04-05, Resound (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> welding... There's something cozy about a noisy metal roof shielding
> you from a downpour, even if it is a bit cold.

Amen. I miss the country.

--
TimC
If my head were spinning at relativistic speeds,
it would appear to everyone else that my brane had slowed down.
-- Dan E. Macs on RHOD

"TimC" <tconnors@no.spam.accepted.here-astro.swin.edu.au> wrote in message
news:slrn-0.9.7.4-29795-14910-200604061102-tc@hexane.ssi.swin.edu.au...
> On 2006-04-05, Resound (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> welding... There's something cozy about a noisy metal roof shielding
>> you from a downpour, even if it is a bit cold.
>
> Amen. I miss the country.
>
This was in Caulfield. Garages with tin roofs are everywhere

Resound wrote:

> This was in Caulfield. Garages with tin roofs are everywhere

You have a steel-roofed garage/shed without roof insulation?

Theo

Theo Bekkers wrote:
> Resound wrote:
>
> > This was in Caulfield. Garages with tin roofs are everywhere
>
> You have a steel-roofed garage/shed without roof insulation?

Who doesn't? In most places, many people choose to live and work
inside their houses these days, and sheds are only used occasionally

YMMV, of course ...

Bleve wrote:
> Theo Bekkers wrote:

>> You have a steel-roofed garage/shed without roof insulation?

> Who doesn't? In most places, many people choose to live and work
> inside their houses these days, and sheds are only used occasionally
>
>
> YMMV, of course ...

Hehe. My shed has brick walls and insulation under the steel roof, as well
as an airconditioner (evaporative). It doesn't have a fridge unfortunately.

I do have one of these in my shed to play with
http://www.felder.co.at/index.php
Follow the machine link to CF731. I have the previous model, a 631.

Theo
Tool junky.

"Theo Bekkers" <tbekkers@bekkers.com.au> wrote in message
news:4434bfa7$1@news.bekkers.com.au...
> Resound wrote:
>
>> This was in Caulfield. Garages with tin roofs are everywhere
>
> You have a steel-roofed garage/shed without roof insulation?
>
> Theo
>

As it happens I do although it's not mine, it's a rental. My friend (in
Caulfield) also does and the garage is actually his although it was there
when he bought the house. We're hardcore tin shed purists though...none of
this soft insulation rubbish for us.