Mundane News (Part 1)

[Lullabelle]

I have a stupid virus and feel like c**p, the coughing is giving me a headache and I feel tired and grumpy

 

[compo]

Cup of tea time.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've got to get the car serviced and MOT'd in Orpington tomorrow. I'm trying to decide whether I want a whole day wandering about on the bike or whether to give my much neglected Oyster 60+ card a good workout. I'm not sure Orpington has enough to hold a full day's attention for me.

 

[Katherine]

I've got to get the car serviced and MOT'd in Orpington tomorrow. I'm trying to decide whether I want a whole day wandering about on the bike or whether to give my much neglected Oyster 60+ card a good workout. I'm not sure Orpington has enough to hold a full day's attention for me.

Both

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Both

I can't take my bike on the bus!

 

[Katherine]

I can't take my bike on the bus!

How were you going to get to your bike if you were going to ride it then? If you were taking it with you then you can have a ride then lock it up while you get on the bus or vice versa.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

How were you going to get to your bike if you were going to ride it then? If you were taking it with you then you can have a ride then lock it up while you get on the bus or vice versa.

Bike in the car is easy enough but spending half a day in lycra on buses wouldn't feel right.

 

[Katherine]

Bike in the car is easy enough but spending half a day in lycra on buses wouldn't feel right.

Bike it is then.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Another classic Melbourne cool change coming in! It's currently 30°C inside the house, and 37 outside, but I just heard some loud thunder, and went outside to see large, thick rain clouds approaching. The temperature in Melbourne, about 20km west of here, has just dropped about 7°C in 30 minutes, and the weather moves eastward, which means I can expect something similar shortly.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

It's now raining heavily, with lots of thunder, lightning and gusty wind!

 

[classic33]

It's now raining heavily, with lots of thunder, lightning and gusty wind!

You know the rule. Pictures.

 

[cookiemonster]

Another classic Melbourne cool change coming in! It's currently 30°C inside the house, and 37 outside, but I just heard some loud thunder, and went outside to see large, thick rain clouds approaching. The temperature in Melbourne, about 20km west of here, has just dropped about 7°C in 30 minutes, and the weather moves eastward, which means I can expect something similar shortly.

Quite funny here in Hong Kong, they have put a cold weather warning out for the rest of the week, temp will be 16c.

Mid-summer where I come from in Aberdeenshire.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

You know the rule. Pictures.

This is what just passed overhead:

Also, the temperature has dropped about 6°C in the last 35 minutes. If you look over to the mid right hand side, I live halfway between Viewbank and Lilydale, and halfway between Lilydale and Mt Dandenong.

As you can see, I got lucky: that rain could have easily missed me. As I mentioned, it typically moves from west to east, and today is no exception.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Actually, make that a 14.6°C drop from 1400 to 1446. Impressive.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Here's what the half-hourly interval graph showed during the cool change at 2pm:

What a show! A sharp temperature drop, 10mm of rain in an hour, and strong and gusty winds. Right now at 5:40pm it's warmed up again to about 31°C but nowhere near the maximum.