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Queensland is cold, so very, very cold …
Brisbane Airport experienced its coldest morning on record today, with the mercury falling below zero for the first time … Amberley had its second coldest day on record with minus 4.8 degrees.
And Stanthorpe residents were forced to brave an overnight minimum temperature of minus seven degrees.
Further north:
Townsville recorded its longest cold snap in 66 years, with continuous minimums below 12 degrees.
The weather bureau’s Greg Connors is predicting there is more to come.
”Not since 1941 have we had such a long cold spell and we think as Friday and Saturday approaches it’s going to get even colder,” he said.
Must be all the carbon. Or something. Down in Victoria, they’re making Gaia cry:
National Electricity Market Management Company spokesman Paul Bird said power use hit a record high.
“It hit 8351MW at 6pm on Tuesday . . . which was about 270MW more than the previous record set on June 19.
“It does show that a lot of people are staying indoors with the colder weather and using a lot more home heating,” Mr Bird said.
They wouldn’t use so much power if it was warmer. Burn that coal, Victorians! Burn it to save the planet!
- So, it’s not s’posed to be this cold? That’s good to know 🙂Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 07 19 at 04:55 AM • permalink
- Darwins Coldest June day
And this “winter” is still colder for longer than ever in my 30 years here in Darwin.
I think all the doom and gloomers may have to return to their 1970,s prediction of an impending ice age.
- Well that’s why we call it Climate CHANGE, you ninnies! We stopped calling it global warming last year (after we figured out that it cooling as much as warming). You neocons need to straighten out your syntax. Never mind last years truthiness that we were screeching from the mountain tops, that was yesterday. Get with the program and try to keep up with our variable foundations, would ya?
You sheeple are so stuck in your industrial ways, you simply aren’t capable of grasping the singular truth(s) that WE (that is to say, YOU) have made Gaia sick and that WE (except for US) must do whatever is necessary to heal her (no matter that we have no idea how to do this) Just fricking turn off all those heaters (except Joss Stone’s, of course)!!!
- Given that Queenslander style homes are built to keep you cool in summer when it’s hot outside, they also manage arctic temperatures inside when its just cold outside. I’m currently running 3 room heaters and a reverse cycle aircon. So speaking of records, I and possibly most of Brisbane, maybe racking up a record electricity bill.
- Y’all Aussies are lucky. Here, where I’m at, it’s cold enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk. Well, not right now, the sun’s been down for awhile, but when that sucker comes up, whammo!
Well, maybe not tomorrow, supposed to be a break in the heat wave. And it wasn’t so bad yesterday either, seeing as how the heatwave was pretty much over a few days ago.
But it got hot! For a few days, at least I think it did. Well, my air conditioner seemed to run the compressor a bit more often, anyway.
I could maybe grab up some of this extra warmth and ship it to y’all?
My house often gets as high as 68f between air conditioner cycles, that’s kinda warm, isn’t it?
- #4 KABOOM
A hell of an interesting point, and one that we need to examine more closely. One point we must note at the start….. gorebal wormenising is BbbbAaaaadddddD!!!
Canada, a once proud country that has been trudeauised, feminised, frogised and f#$%!~d up the arse to become, if you look at political influence, a land populated almost exclusively by pederasts and pillowbiters. A freezing place. In winter, even worse. What would +2 or 3 degrees do to Canada, apart from increasing the growing season and making agriculture even richer?? What would -2 or 3 deg do -what gore and his filth want??
More illegal immigrants to keep the dems in power, I guessA trickier problem!
What might happen to Oz with plus a couple of degrees? Put it in a model, someone, and the result will be a net GDP delta of somewhere between -$1000000000000 and +$1000000000000000000.We could do that. Or we could work out ways to get the nobel pieceprize like that irish slag, and KILL all these leftmaggots.
DDT might work OK
- Does this mean that Queensland’s many layers of public servants, labor supporters, green maniacs and generally all round good PC types are pulling on jumpers to avoid using extra carbon generating fuel to deal with this cold spell?
If so let’s hope those pullovers are wool and not nylon.
And if it’s wool, let’s hope they weren’t mulesed.
And if it’s non mulesed wool, let’s hope it wasn’t knitted in some Asian sweatshop.
Are our perfect pinkos practising what they preach?
I don’t think so.
And NO calming hot baths. That’s water.
- We put in some recycled paper insulation last summer, and although it didn’t cool the house to a great extent over summer, we have found it quite good this chilly winter – we have only used the heater 2 nights so far, and that is compared to about 2 months of use during a far milder winter last year.
My wife is making up for it now though – she has the tv on and the air cond going, while talking on the phone in an entirely different room, and she’s left about 4 lights blazing in rooms she’s long since left.
For revenge I’ll pay the electricity bill using her credit card.
😉
mmm which is then paid from our JOINT account – dammit this woman has me beat! I’ma gonna dob her in to Captain Al and have her sent to re-education camp.
- Bloody Queenslanders, I remember when we used to have wintry maximum temperatures that are less they are getting as minimums up in TVL. Oh well serves me right for living in Adelaide, but does not detract from my right to stick the boot in. If anyone sees hayley in Townsville, tell her i still love her 🙂Posted by aguycalledbrad on 2007 07 19 at 05:41 AM • permalink
- Ash, I just switched on the radio, and the interviewer on PM is trying to wheedle an admission from Alexander Downer that Howard and Costello stick pins in each other’s effigy every night.
He’s not having much success.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 19 at 06:20 AM • permalink
- Once again, I’d like to remind all you Aussies of your smug comments during December and January about frollicking at the beach and enjoy BBQ’s while we Americans were freezing our collective arses. We’d enjoy your suffering (well, at least the rightwingers would) if it wasn’t for the fact that in a few months time we’ll once again start freezing our arses.Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 19 at 06:24 AM • permalink
- #22 – is that all you ever think about 1.618? And to think I’ve been accused of having a one-track mind.
Seriously though, how are you these days? Over the blues?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 19 at 06:27 AM • permalink
- Ash, the ABC and its lefty pals would just love to see a vicious slanging match between PM and Treasurer. The sort of hate fest we haven’t seen at the top since – since Hawke and Keating, I suppose.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 19 at 06:30 AM • permalink
- Swinish, I must confess. I love a good, public slanging match. But I prefer it not to involve people who should be focused on running the country, unlike the idiots at the ABC, who’d rather it involve people who should be focused on running the country.
But the ABC is infested with morons, imbeciles and moonbats.
- Bugger these airy termite-food high set Queenslanders. Mine’s brick on a slab with roof insulation and
a lovely, warm, wood-burning tree-destroying, CO2 pumping Osburn (from Canada) fire!!!! YAYYYYY.(It was bloody cold this morning!)
Queenslander
- #8
You’re supposed to create the impression that we Queenslanders are rugged couldn’t-give-a-rat’s-arse individualists, innurred to any hardship, not some delicate southern lilac wearing metrosexual.
I, for one, don’t need no steenkin’ heater, because I reckon I’ve worked out how to make the radioactive isotope in the smoke detector go critical.
- Come on Kae, you came to queensland in the first fleet, killed all the natives, cut down their trees and imported fire – you deserve the right to burn their trees, (eucalyptus burnus).Posted by surfmaster on 2007 07 19 at 06:50 AM • permalink
- Press Release: For immediate distribution:
From The Australia Institute – Public Notice
It has come to our attention that the latest weather conditions on the Eastern Australian Seaboard are at odds with the predicted temperature rises from our various modelling scenarios. We wish to advise patrons that there is a fully analysed and peer reviewed explanation for this anomaly in that our modellers currently are enjoying a short break to recalibrate their computer models.
The Australia Institute apologises for any inconvenience caused by this aberration but assures patrons that normal service will be resumed as soon as the computer models are recalibrated as verified by highly important peer reviewers. The expected time for the resumption of Anthropogenic Global Warming will be immediately following this weather aberration or after the successful recalibration of our computer models whichever comes later.
Please direct any enquiries about this service to Prof Tim Flummery, honorary spokesman for whether (this or that).
C Amilton Exec Director 19 July 2007
- It’s getting serious in SEQ.
Coolangatta has had an overnight minimum of 0°C, the lowest temperature ever recorded for that town.
Last night’s coldening has killed my mature bananas, paw paws and chokos. In one night the leaves on large evergreen trees have shrivelled up and turned brown. This is the first time in the 20 years we have lived here that this has happened.
Worse to come? I’m looking at VirginBlue.com right now for seats on anything headed north.
- #16
Ash,I agree Kerry had high hopes that his carefully selected excerpts from the book would draw some blood.But as usual when John Howard is under pressure he nearly always comes through with a powerfully good performance.No blood was drawn.
Apart from a couple of very minor hiccups The Prime Minister looks, at least to me, to be fighting fit and in full battle mode against Rudderless Kev and his 70% union dominated “alternative government”1
- #44 Dave, Kerry must have read that book with a highlighter and page markers. And perhaps some tissues.
John Howard yet again put in a very good performance, refusing to comment on Peter Costello’s thoughts and opinions, which were probably quoted out of context.
I think the Government will put in a very good fight against the ALP, because from what I’ve noticed, a lot of people think that the ALP will win, but none of the people who say that also say that they’ll vote for the ALP.
- Ash, I think you are right.
You gotta love the way the luvvies are reporting Costello’s words as if he had just uttered them and they were the latest news, rather than quotes from the past in a book by an unnamed author.
It will be interesting to see if Kezza is still flogging this tired old horse closer to the election.
- N.T.News reports on coldest ever June day!
Its still cold tonight.The temperature is 27 degrees inside the house and probably about 24 degrees outside – from where I am write this post.
Actually the weather has started to arm up a bit today,but its still nippy here and now at my outside desk!
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
- #52 Skeeter, I do love it. It’s crazy how they can possibly think that the book’s author will have not chosen the quotes that could portray the Howard/Costello relationship in the worst possible light, with the intention of releasing it close to the election, and therefore selling a tonne of copies.
I bet Kezza tries to ride this one home.
- Still not too cold to drink beer while wearing a filthy, tattered singlet. And you don’t even need to pull a stubby cooler out of the cupboard, which saves a few seconds of drinking time and energy with every dead’un. I’d always wondered why cars have heaters as well.
BTW, it’s bollocks that this is the coldest winter on record- in 1984 there were snow flurries on Mt Coot-tha, and you could even see snow falling in the CBD if you were on a floor higher than the 10th (I was on the 14th then). We went ski-ing at Stanthorpe as well.
Also in 1993 we had to wait at the airport for a late flight and didn’t leave until just before sun-up, and I burnt out the wiper motor in my Dodge ute because the wiper blades were frozen to the windscreen- I’d neglected to follow the Canberra winter closing time protocol of standing on your bonnet and pissing on the screen before starting the car.
What all these hyperventilating halfwits see as evidence of climate change I see as weather. If we could have any influence on it, we’d be in permament springtime (except for Monday mornings, which call for mid-winter deluges, giving the perfect reason to stay in bed and flick off the tiresome responsibility of employment).
- #51 Kae: I’m not built for cold weather. Chasing snow-buddies and drinking toddies are the only worthwhile things to do in snow covered mountain regions.
Mrs Skeeter likes skiing but I have always preferred to remain close to an open fire. In fact, the last time I was at a ski-resort, so determined was I to warm the whole of my body that I melted the arse out of my brand new foam-padded lycra ski pants.
- #61
LOL good thing you hadn’t been eating lentils….Oh, I’ll chase the snow buddies, you can chase the snow bunnies…. if Mrs Skeets lets you (she may be of the opinion that it’s quite safe, like a puppy, if you ever caught one you’d not know what to do with it… what AM I saying, I’m in that boat, too!)
- #57 Ash I would love to share some warmth with you ANYWHERE! Darwin or Melbourne are both places where warmth can exist or be created.
In my youth I spent some time in Melbourne with a lovely girl from Catamatite, and although the weather was atrociously cold, much warmth was generated.
Melbourne has a particular kind of discreet romanticism that even under the coldest conditions can produce seriously sensuous encounters,the memories of which will never die.
- #16- The crinkly old turd was positively drooling throughout, and they ran the entire show on this burning issue; Snow Cone Tone resurected it on Lateline, trying to draw Tony Abbot into the kerfuffle, most of which consists of unsubstantiated rumours, innuendos and allegations which lack any actual attribution- in other words the tome appears to be a 300-odd page gossip column.
Here’s the word, Kezza, Tones and assorted members of the chattering classes- besides yourselves and the insular, inbred, incestous and insulated sheltered workshops you infest such as most of Canberra, even more of academia and virtually the entire media industry, no-one would give a fuck if Howard was cornholing Costello, let alone wether of not they had a few tiffs during a three term relationship; as long as the economy is bouyant and the palsied paw of the fiscal fiend doesn’t swipe their entire pay packet the vast majority of punters couldn’t give a royal rats ringer what shennanigans go on in that waste of a good grazing paddock on the Molongo, and nor should they.
The desperation displayed by these dipshits is pathetic- I for one am quite looking forward to the look of disgust on Red Kezza’s puss in the counting room later this year when the penny drops that Kevni and Co have been beaten like Kerry hopefully was for the duration of his sun-avoiding, ginger-crowned youth.
- o/t I see that Mike Carlton is proving how much of a hater he is
- Habib, the evening presenter on Bris 612 was going on and on about them never having had dinner together.
I work with some nice people. I’ve never had dinner with them.
I work with some annoying arseholes, I’d never have dinner with them.
Why? You work with people every day, it’s NOT your social life. And life’s too short to spend it with people you’d rather not. Whether you like them or not!
- #75 Nah Ash_, I’m a softy. Last night my wife invited the neighbors inside while I was in the kitchen. The problem was that I was standing in my underwear. It was really hot, so I had just taken off my pants and thrown them on the stairs. The neighbors were already inside before my wife realized I was de-panted. Nothing left to do but laugh, fetch my pants and throw them to me. I blushed.
And yes, I am starving. What’s cookin?
- #72 Ash, your words below:
”“”“Melbourne can be a very romantic place, if you know where to go and what to see. What to do comes later.”“””
”“”“There are some excellent little cafes and such which are incredibly cozy and romantic.”“”“”
Once again Ash, I concur wholeheartedly!
I am really going to bed NOW!!! BRRRRRRR!!!
- I keep having that same problem. I think I need to see a doctor. Also last night, after dinner an entire bowl filled with vanilla icecream covered with Eilikor sauce accidentally fell into my mouth. It must have been the shock of the coldness that caused an involuntary swallow. This seems to keep happening to me. Freaky, really.
“It does show that a lot of people are staying indoors with the colder weather and using a lot more home heating,” Mr Bird said.
It sounds like Oz is on the verge of rediscovering
Cabin Fever.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 19 at 09:37 AM • permalink
- Kae, Ash… Kinda like the ‘death by chocolate’ in Terry Pratchett’s “The Thief of Time?”
Hey! No fair! They’re on both sides of the cat…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 19 at 10:07 AM • permalink
- Producing 2.2lb of beef generates as much greenhouse gas as driving a car non-stop for three hours —Telegraph (UK)
Burning coal is small-time. I’m eating more steak!
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 07 19 at 10:47 AM • permalink
- “Producing 2.2lb of beef generates as much greenhouse gas as driving a car non-stop for three hours —Telegraph (UK)”
Here’s a poser for the scientifically ignorant twits at the Telegraph:
What? Do cows create matter do they?!!!
How much C02 was consumed in the production of the feed required to breed the cow?!
FUCKING IDIOTS!!!!!
- 100
If anyone on this comments board is from Buffalo, NY, would you please let these Australians know how to survive snow and cold?
Yea…leave..:).
I did, Dave S. did too. Ummm Dave went further North…ME, I headed South. Unfortunately, the rest of my family did NOT teach their children, how to drive.
BTW, it’s so damn hot on this planet, some poor folks are resorting to peeling off, to bare essentials…poor people.
- Hey, slow up a minute… that means that when Thredbo, Perisher Valley and Jindabyne folk ride the coach up to, say, Noosa and climb down the gangway in the dead of winter wearing shorts, flip flops and a Hawaiian shirt, people up that way will point and laugh?
Ugh. Climate change isn’t science, it’s just plain bloody-minded vengeance.
If anyone on this comments board is from Buffalo, NY, would you please let these Australians know how to survive snow and cold?
During the Blizzard of ‘83, then-Mayor Jimmy Griffin advised us to “stay home with a six-pack.”
Jimmy was as Irish as they come. At the opening of the new ballpark, he saw a political opponent approaching. Jimmy said, “Howya doin’, asshole?” and punched him in the face.
[Canada] a land populated almost exclusively by pederasts and pillowbiters.
I head a joke a long time ago, how do you define a French Canadian Virgin? “A twelve year old who can run faster than her father.” I though the joke was kind of unfair, even though it was funny, until I heard that the “age of consent” in Quebec is 13.
- Tries to crawl under cat owowowowowowow…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 19 at 03:27 PM • permalink
- Buffalo wasn’t so bad. Not compared to where I live now anyways. I lived near there for years and came to believe that snow only fell sideways, as if the flakes were actually in some kind of low orbit, and could never quite figure out how it accumulated so quickly. Then I realized that I had just gotten so used to the wind, I didn’t notice it anymore.
I always wanted to name my blog, if I ever got around to creating one, the “Spurious Distress”, after the local paper there, the “Courier-Express” except nobody would probably ever get the joke.
- Or coordinated the rest of my wardrobe with it, because it doesn’t seem to be coming off… owowowowowow…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 19 at 04:00 PM • permalink
- If Mayor Griffin is still around, I wonder if he’d like to take on a real challenge?
- #93 kae – Please do post the recipe!
Don’t you just hate it when food falls into your mouth unexpectedly? Naturally, it’s rude to spit it out, so you have no choice but to eat it.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 07 19 at 04:46 PM • permalink
- #114 The Recipe. Be warned. These are addictive!
Kae’s Coconut, White Chocolate and Macadamia Nut Bikkies
I made up the recipe in 1990 when I moved to Melbourne and couldn’t
find a Mrs Fields Cookies shop.Ingredients: Make about 4 dozen
250g butter
2 cups caster sugar
2 eggs (3 if they are small)
10ml vanilla essence
2 cups plain flour sifted
2- cups s/r flour sifted (mixture should be doughy, add more
flour if required)
150g shredded coconut (1/2 packet – if you really like
coconut you can almost double this!)
100g macadamia pieces (smash them with the rolling pin,
or mill them)
125g white chocolate bits (1/2 packet, or add the packet
if you like)Method:
Preheat oven to 200deg C
Cream butter and sugar til it turns white (may still have crunchy
bits) (do it with the mix-master!)
add vanilla and beat
beat in eggs
mix in sifted flours
mix in shredded coconut, nuts and white bits
spoon onto baking paper lined tray (these are light) or
roll into large walnut sized balls and flatten allow for spreading (these
are more dense)
bake in moderate oven (200 deg C) for 10-15 minutes, or until tinged
with colourif you like them crunchy, bake a little longer or until they are just tinged brown. Allow to cool
completely before storing in airtight containersif you like them chewy, don’t let them brown too much and store before
completely cooledwhite choc can be left out if you desire, or the nuts (without the nuts I call them “Castrati”)
The mixture is very doughy and hard to stir in the nuts, choc and coconut.
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My wife tells me I look like a goose, but I am now wearing socks with my shorts and sandals