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COLDENING ALMOST UPGRADED TO FREEZENING
The Great Coldening just keeps getting greater:
Sydneysiders woke up to their coldest July morning in 21 years today, when the thermometer dipped to 3.7 degrees.
The minimum temperature was reached at 6.54am today and beat by one degree a July record set just yesterday.
I blame John Howard.
UPDATE. Cold in Victoria, too. But over in sunny Minnesota:
Today is the middle of the middle month of summer; think of noon as a great hinge on which the season turns. There’s plenty left, but now might be the time to start appreciating the languid dusks a little more than you might. We’re used to summer now; we take it all for granted. Winter seems like an absurd theory, proposed by madmen. But soon enough, soon enough.
(Via Instapundit)
It’s a women’s perogative to change her mind. And old Mother Gaia is one fickle bitch.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 16 at 11:06 PM • permalinkIt’s been colder than a witches tit in SE Qld for weeks now- I went to an open air gig at Qld University on Saturday and it looked more like the chairlift queue at Perisher than the sub tropics. I for one want to know just what the government is going to do about this- perhaps some sort of giant magnifying glass to concentrate the feeble rays of the sun could be the answer. If it gets any colder I’m certain my dogs legs will atrophy due to them never getting out of bed, and I’ll have to hump them out into the yard for numbers one and two- is John Howard going to supply me with an aide? I don’t think so. Perhaps its time for citizens to take direct action- I recommmend a pyre of tractor tyres for maximum greenhouse effect, but hippies can be a good source of heat-generated pollution as well- their low body fat content makes them slow burning, but be careful- the products used to secure their filthy dreadlocks can go up like lighter fluid; you also need a goodly number for a decent blaze, but they’re hardly an endangered species (yet).
Anyone coming to thissy will need to bring their woollens.
Though don’t let the freezing weather put you off.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 16 at 11:09 PM • permalinkIt’s heading south… run for your lives!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 16 at 11:09 PM • permalink#6 - If it gets any colder I’m certain my dogs legs will atrophy due to them never getting out of bed, and I’ll have to hump them out into the yard
That’s extreme. You could try rubbing them first or maybe a warm bath.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 16 at 11:12 PM • permalinkOT (like totally) so I apologize, but my comment is related to an earlier topic:
I just watched a movie through Netflix online called “He Died with a Felafel in his Hand”. I assume at least some of you know it since it’s set (and made) in Australia. How famous a movie is it?
Anyway, my point in bringing it up is that I now know what a cane toad is. Right at the beginning of the movie there’s a scene where these people who share a house take turns going out into the yard where they use a golf club, specifically a nice big driver, to whack these huge cane toads against the side of the house. It was a funny scene (without being graphic) but I’m sure PETA was not amused.
#6
but hippies can be a good source of heat-generated pollution as well- their low body fat content makes them slow burning, but be careful- the products used to secure their filthy dreadlocks can go up like lighter fluid; you also need a goodly number for a decent blaze, but they’re hardly an endangered species (yet).
Gosh, Habib, I thought it was natural hair grease, sebum, that kept the dreadies dreadful. They smell bad enough without burning them like some kind of stinking incense.
... when the thermometer dipped to 3.7 degrees.
Well, shiver me timbers!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 16 at 11:27 PM • permalink#13 Good point surly. Hey, whatever happened to Stop Continental Drift?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 16 at 11:36 PM • permalink#2
While centres across the Central Tablelands and Warrumbungles get snow every year, it hasn’t happened in Dubbo ever, as far as anyone knows ... around 1cm of snow tomorrow morning but can’t be exact as the where it might fall. He says the odds of a light dusting in the region tomorrow to be at about 20%.
Regardless of whether it snows or not the temperature is forecast to reach only 7 degrees in Dubbo tomorrow, the lowest maximum in 23 years.
Aha! Freezening mystery solved.
Some of the speakers from link at #7 are Al Gore Ambassadors.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 16 at 11:52 PM • permalink#28 - You could buy them a chicken parmy and a bottle of Porphyry Pearl at the RSL. It’s just good manners before a hump.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 17 at 12:23 AM • permalink15:
Ours is going full blast to make up for your slackness!
Luckily here at work we have an airconditioner that refuses to warm the office above 15 degrees. we wear jumpers all year round, and in summer, feel really stupid walking out to meet clients wearing shorts and t-shirts
$%@#$%@#% air con engineers!
Wow! 1 degree colder than the day before?
Obviously time to start panicking. If we use this trend it will be down to -26C this time next month.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 07 17 at 01:01 AM • permalinkHoward’s over friendly relationship with China is also apparently the likely cause of the SARS outbreak !!!:
Yummy Yummy yummy I’ve got Rat in my tummy
My Favourite part of it was was this bit :
“Rats are considered a delicacy in Guangzhou, where people are reputed to eat anything that moves, but their sale was banned in 2003 as part of a general prohibition on wild animal consumption in the wake of the SARS epidemic.”Does Howard have no shame ? Is he making us tuck to our favourite cuisine when the temperature is clearly not suitable?
Psssst. Does anyone have any idea of the tastiest portion of a Rat?( or twooey).
Ha the old Ratatouille jokes ..oldies but goodies….
(* Owns up*I had to Google to spell it right)#34 - “Wang Fan, a Guangzhou food safety official…”
Sometimes the jokes write themselves.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 17 at 01:14 AM • permalinkCool place names from around the globe.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 17 at 01:25 AM • permalink#36
LOL
Onya, Pickles!I’ve been everywhere, man…
Been to:
Tullamore, Seymour, Lismore, Mooloolaba,
Nambour, Maroochydore, Kilmore, Murwillumbah,
Birdsville, Emmaville, Wallaville, Cunnamulla,
Condamine, Strathpine, Proserpine, Ulladulla,
Darwin, Gin Gin, Deniliquin, Muckadilla,
Wallumbilla, Boggabilla, Kumbarilla,
I’m a killer.I’ve been to Moree, Taree, Jerilderie, Bambaroo,
Toowoomba, Gunnedah, Caringbah, Woolloomooloo,
Dalveen, Tamborine, Engadine, Jindabyne,
Lithgow, Casino, Brigalow and Narromine,
Megalong, Wyong, Tuggerawong, Wangarella,
Morella, Augathella, Brindabella, I’m the feller.I’ve been to Wollongong, Geelong, Kurrajong, Mullumbimby,
Mittagong, Molong, Grong Grong, Goondiwindi,
Yarra Yarra, Boroondara, Wallangarra, Turramurra,
Boggabri, Gundagai, Narrabri, Tibooburra,
Gulgong, Adelong, Billabong, Cabramatta,
Parramatta, Wangaratta*, Coolangatta, what’s it matter?I’ve been to Ettalong, Dandenong, Woodenbong, Ballarat,
Canberra, Milperra, Unanderra, Captain’s Flat,
Cloncurry, River Murray, Kurri Kurri, Girraween,
Terrigal, Fingal, Stockinbingal, Collaroy and Narrabeen,
Bendigo, Dorrigo, Bangalow, Indooroopilly,
Kirribilli, Yeerongpilly, Wollondilly, don’t be silly.Unofficial reports of snow in the Melbourne CBD. Williamstown was carpeted in hail half an hour ago.
But just to be scientific, that doesn’t mean AGW isn’t true.Posted by ooh honey honey on 2007 07 17 at 01:32 AM • permalinkThe forecast for Canberra tomorrow is 5 degrees and snow. There’s got be a conference on global warming here this week or something…
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 07 17 at 01:34 AM • permalinkActually it’s science science science, so watch out!
Posted by ooh honey honey on 2007 07 17 at 01:42 AM • permalink#39 Thanks for posting the lyrics. I worked out that I’ve been to 65 of the places mentioned in the song.
There’s another recorded track with lots of Australian place names - Australiana by Austen Tayshus. The best puns I’ve heard.
#10 Get a hold of the book if you can - much funnier than the movie, which actually bears bugger all relation to the book.
Posted by anonymous guest on 2007 07 17 at 02:12 AM • permalinkSydneysiders woke up to their coldest July morning in 21 years today, when the thermometer dipped to 3.7 degrees.
Well my wife’s car sat in the drive over night and when I came to start it this morning, the outside air temperature flashed at minus 1 degree C. And the car was covered in a generous coating of ice - both front and rear windscreens. (We live in the north west).
All the neighbours’ lawns (and ours) including roof tops were coated in white .. a white wonderland of frost, so much so that I even took a few photos. Now there’s an event!
As for being cold or feeling cold - not a bit. We’ve just had the wood heater on full bore for the last week or so. Plenty of emissions there.
I blame the weather.
check out the comments here for a laugh. For one thing, plenty of skeptics. Then there are gems like this
guys…“global warming” is a misnomer. temperatures in the negative in Melbourne…that’s what I call extreme and a result of a climate that is feeling a bit poorly. wake up!
Kae,
But Johnny Cash had never been to Humptulips
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 07 17 at 03:05 AM • permalink#6 Habib, you’re not wrong. I’m a long term resident of SEQ but am seriously looking at migrating north.
But how far will I have to go? Tropical Rocky’s forecast minima for the next three days: 6, 6 and 5°C.
Townsville has had as low as 6.9 this month and its July average so far is 9. It is expecting 9°C on Friday and it’s in F’n FNQ FFS.I think man-made CO2 is reflecting the sun’s rays, causing the world to cool. My theory shows that in 100 years the oceans will drop 100 metres, causing terrible hardship for coastal communities, who will no longer be able to fish. The great freezing will cause crops to fail and bring about mass starvation on an unprecedented scale.
For those who dismiss this theory, I humbly point out that I have the same expertise in climatology as Tim Flannery, Peter Garrett, Bob Brown and Robyn Williams, so I will not be mocked as as an unqualified quack
I wish someone would be able to tell me just how much warmer the planet is because Howard did not sign Kyoto.
Even just one of the little nuff-nuffs answers would make me happy.
Posted by curious george on 2007 07 17 at 04:05 AM • permalink3.7 Celsius is 39 Fahrenheit. When the temperature drops to that wondrous level here in Florida I open the windows, make spiced cider, and celebrate the seasonal relief from being parboiled alive.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 17 at 06:22 AM • permalinkAll I know is that it’s bloody cold, and I have a bloody cold, and tomorrow is going to be bloody cold.
And just as I was leaving work today it started hailing!
Where’s my glowbell worming?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 07 17 at 06:46 AM • permalinkThe most recent of recent data will always overwhelmingly override the less recent of recent data, alas!
The hokey stick is upside down!
Oh, ye believers. Brethren and followers of Tim Flannery, Peter Garrett, Bob Brown and Robyn Williams… Behold! The Satyr of human prosperity skips and weaves, scattering its hoof strikes of evil through Gaia’s ancient forests.
Cast not your eyes away from the truth, for we must gauge anew how divine indeed are the catastrophic implications of catastrophic climate change!
Look on the bright side. Global Freezening will be a great help in preserving the endangered Chilean Sea Bass for shipment to greenie weddings…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 17 at 09:56 AM • permalinkWe have a full house tonight due to the great coldening. Our household of four has temporarily doubled in size as our son & daughter have invited friends to stay in our toasty warm abode. The poor kids were freezing their butts off, having no effective heating in their rented digs, and are in the middle of university exams. One is about to complete his envronmental science degree, with a particular interest in GW.
He and I had an interesting discussion about that.
Holy crap! The warmening is back. They said it would be colder here in Sydney this morning so we braced for it. It was going to be colder than yesterday’s ‘Minus 1 degree C ‘.... but the outside air temperature this morning is 5 degrees C!
That’s a frightening increase of 6 degrees C in one day!
So believe me, global warming is real, the evidence is undeniable.
At this rate of temperature rise I calculate we have exactly seven days left to prepare for the inevitable end.
It was fhweeeeeeezing on the Gold Coast this morning. Some parts stayed in the minus territory, and the old fellas I caught up with this morning couldn’t remember it being colder, ever!
More proof of extreme climate change, despite global warmingistas saying that with increased temperatures will come higher minimums, but then again, Flannery says we’ll get even colder weather. Who to believe ...
I see our friend Tim Dunlop has decided to wreck vengeance for his polls post being yanked and just taken off any semblance of balance to attack jwh in each post, and let his commenters get away with calling him a rodent. What a spoilt little child he is.
I’m confused. I thought you Aussies used the Celsius scale, but 3.7 degrees Celsius isn’t cold. Try 3.7 degrees Fahrenheit, and maybe you’ll start getting cold.
And as for strange place names, how could you miss the Austrian town of Fucking (rhymes with “cooking”)? I’ve actually got photos from my visit there. What the Snopes page doesn’t show is that in Austria, the town signs also signify the start of the lower speed limit for built-up areas. So when you’re leaving a town, the other side of the sign has the name of the town with a slash through it to signify the end of the reduced speed zone. I’m sure you can figure out what else that implies…. ;-)
Posted by Ted Schuerzinger on 2007 07 17 at 10:23 PM • permalinkA helpful tip from Dubbo’s Daily Liberal newspaper:
Dubbo plumber Matt Diamond responded to four burst pipes yesterday morning, and one on Monday.
“They’ve been freezing and bursting, and a couple of people said they’d rung a few plumbers before me,” he said.
To prevent pipes from freezing, Mr Diamond suggested wrapping exposed pipes in towels, to stop the frost from freezing the water inside.
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I blame John Watkins, it’s the wind that makes it so cold!
So much for Sydney’s kooky rising fake realestate market if we go completely ice age.