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Subj: Re: Temperature
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Sent: 130121/0407Z @:VK3API.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC #:55359 [Lilydale] FBB7.00g
From: VK3API@VK3API.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC
To : ALL@WW
Hi Ian and others.
The temperature inside the shack here the other day was 43 degrees
Celsius. This is even though the shack is very well insulated. Had to
switch of the BBS and APRS severs in case they caught fire or self
destructed. We are expecting similar temperatures later this week.
The outside temperature was up around 49 degrees.
This is the first time in about 3 years that the temperature is reaching
such figures. The shack is air conditioned but with the ridiculous cost of
electricity we can only afford to run the one in the house OR the one in
the shack, so I go inside and the xyl and myself both keep cool.
I wouldn't mind a bit of your cool weather. Here all the lawn is browned
off and many of the garden plants are dying or dead. We have only had 1mm
of rain since Christmas. Because of the lack of rain our tanks are empty
and we are now back on the chlorinated fluoridated stuff that passes for
drinking water from the town supply.
I am still not convinced about climate change that much. None of the
current extremes of fire and flood are that different from when I was a
kid 70 odd years ago. We had heat waves and floods just the same and to
the same degree. After all we are coming out of an ice age, mini or
otherwise and you have to expect some global warming.
All we seem to have at the moment is the same old same old hysterics
casting the entrails and blaming everything from warts to heat waves on
"man made global warming".
>We heard on the news
> about a week ago about the fires in Tasmania and the heat in NSW but then it
> all went quiet.
The fires are still going all over Australia. I am not sure what the
current tally is but a few days ago there were over 100 major fires
burning in New South Wales and a smaller number of more fierce fires
burning in Victoria
So far only one life lost but there have been numerous houses and many
live stock burnt. It must be a scene straight out of hell to attempt to
control a fire burning on a 100km front with 60 foot high flames
travelling at 80km/hr.
Our fire authority has set up a web site where you can monitor the state
of the fires and receive any warnings. I normally have this running in the
shack because we live in a bushfire risk area and if I have to leave I
want to get organised early.
If there is imminent danger to an area from bushfire, then there is an
automated system that rings every telephone and issues the evacuation
order. You don't have to go, but old people particularly are advised not
to stay unless they have an authorised and approved fire bunker on the
property.
Well enough of the whining small talk from me. Today it's only 29 degrees
in the shack and the APRS server, the BBS, the mail server, and the Web
server are all up and running, and I am having a high old time playing
with a raspberry pi computer that has developed a strange fault probably
of my own doing.
Regards to All
Tony VK3API
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