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cesium133:
You got yourself a deal. Now, how do we execute this trade?

Tova:
I'm disappoint that I missed out on the entire whinge/whine conversation.

In Australia, we are firmly on track to see the warmest year on record, one year after the current record for the warmest year on record. Interesting times.

On the bright side, the weather in Sydney in recent weeks really has been pleasant. Unless you've been hoping for rain. Not so great in that case.

http://www.bom.gov.au/nsw/forecasts/sydney.shtml

You can believe it's autumn early in the morning, not so much in the middle of the day.

Tova:
Sydney weather stations record coldest May morning in 20 years

I post this partly out of amusement that we've recorded our coldest may morning in twenty years in the middle of what will inevitably be our warmest year on record.

And partly so that most of you can point and laugh at what we Sydneysiders call "cold weather," even for late autumn.

Our cat slept on top of me for the first time since last winter, so that's the official start of winter in my book.

94ssd:
So we just had what is at least the storm of the decade so far. I was driving in it for a bit on my way home, the wind gusts actually were shaking my car, visibility was basically 0, and I had to pull over. As I was waiting for the storm to clear, which took about 15 minutes, it got worse. Tree limbs blew by me and pea-sized hail began to fall.

So I get home, there's a tree limb blocking my parking lot and tree branches scattered everywhere around my apartment. My storm door (which has never latched and always blows around during high winds) had someone been blown in such a way that it was stuck opened. And I had no electricity.

But that's not the worst of it by far. Our building is fine and I got power back around 9:30. But just 500 feet away from my apartment, another apartment building had its roof completely blown off by what may have been, but isn't yet confirmed as, a small tornado. What's left of the building still don't have power, possibly because the service drop for it has blown off into another zip code.

I found insulation from that roof 400 feet away. One of my friends had a top-level apartment and most of his stuff is damaged beyond repair. Parts of the roof fell onto cars in the parking lot and hit the building behind it, damaging its roof. which means everyone from both buildings is currently being made to find somewhere else to stay.





Thankfully no one was hurt physically. The fact that all the surrounding buildings including mine are okay just shows how random nature can be. Or how shoddy that building's roof job was,. take your pick. .

sitnspin:
Weather can indeed be freakishly random. I grew up in tornado country. It's not uncommon at all to see a house completely destroyed and a house next door or two houses down completely unscathed. Nature is a capricious lady. Glad you are all safe.

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