Well now, Knobby, from Queensland I can tell you this has been the coolest, wettest summer in the 20 years that I've lived here. And I can further assure you the wet weather has not in the slightest modified the constant falling of branches and even more constant shedding of thousands of bloody gum leaves from my neighbour's oversized gum tree, filling my pool daily and covering all the paving and flower beds.Love the cool change today in Melbourne.
Just refreshing. Might get a shower tomorrow.
I was on a camp all last week, got back Monday night. On Sunday and Monday the gums were dropping their branches. I heard 3 drop Sunday night. I think that may be a sign they were lacking water.?
The El Niño must have kicked in, though I haven't heard it reported.
Well now, Knobby, from Queensland I can tell you this has been the coolest, wettest summer in the 20 years that I've lived here. And I can further assure you the wet weather has not in the slightest modified the constant falling of branches and even more constant shedding of thousands of bloody gum leaves from my neighbour's oversized gum tree, filling my pool daily and covering all the paving and flower beds.
Love the cool change today in Melbourne.
Just refreshing. Might get a shower tomorrow.
I was on a camp all last week, got back Monday night. On Sunday and Monday the gums were dropping their branches. I heard 3 drop Sunday night. I think that may be a sign they were lacking water.?
The El Niño must have kicked in, though I haven't heard it reported.
+100 I'm wishing I could put in one of these:
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Julia and DocK, we had the same problem with leaves in the pool at our last place and found a pool cover solved 90% of the problem (just one of those solar ones that sits on the surface of the water). The problem with that big glass one is that it would be way too hot here under that in summer
Cooler here today in Victoria too. I'm not lookin gto the forecast heat next week either. I heard someone from BOM on the TV the other day and he said to expect this hot weather more or less until the end of March
MTA: Actually is it glass or a flywire sort of thing
Full item at http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/causes.html
And a good chart of the rise from 1900 to 2000
Anyway we are probably going to have to start a thread for the hottest February and looks like also the hottest March may get a run too.
Love the cool change today in Melbourne.
Just refreshing. Might get a shower tomorrow.
I was on a camp all last week, got back Monday night. On Sunday and Monday the gums were dropping their branches. I heard 3 drop Sunday night. I think that may be a sign they were lacking water.?
The El Niño must have kicked in, though I haven't heard it reported.
I had a quote for a very similar structure: around $15K plus immense destruction in the erection process to the landscaping by bringing post digging machines etc across lawns and garden beds. The main posts have to be set in 1.5 metre deep concrete, so paving has to be taken up etc. Quite apart from the cost, which would have overcapitalised the house, I just didn't like the potential look of it amongst my otherwise attractive garden.+100 I'm wishing I could put in one of these:
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OK, so how then did you remove the leaves from the pool cover, Miss Hale? We have the pool cover sitting on the water, covered all over with leaves: where to from there?Julia and DocK, we had the same problem with leaves in the pool at our last place and found a pool cover solved 90% of the problem (just one of those solar ones that sits on the surface of the water).
It's not. In desperation, we have erected a large (full pool size) heavy duty tarp, slung by ropes and elastics from the patio roof on one side to the fence or trees on the other side. It is sloping downwards so that the leaves fall forward onto the paving so can be swept up, and the angle also allows rainwater to largely run off.Mesh - meant to let the breeze in, but keep the bugs and leaves etc out. When I win lotto I'm going to get some quotes
We'll probably put a cover over the pool in winter - but ours is just off our family room and provides a lovely view from its windows. Looking at a pool cover just wouldn't be the same.
Mt Wellington recorded 124 km/h wind this afternoon so that's more than enough wind I think. It seems that if we're not being fried then we'll be blown away instead.Also enjoying the cooler change today in Hobart , although the winds are around 60 - 100 KM an hour so a few fires have flared up again.
There should be a height limit on trees in small suburban back yards imo.
Love the cool change today in Melbourne.
Just refreshing. Might get a shower tomorrow.
I was on a camp all last week, got back Monday night. On Sunday and Monday the gums were dropping their branches. I heard 3 drop Sunday night. I think that may be a sign they were lacking water.?
The El Niño must have kicked in, though I haven't heard it reported.
Julia and DocK, we had the same problem with leaves in the pool at our last place and found a pool cover solved 90% of the problem
Wasn’t aware that I owed you any explanation as to why I’ve posted on this or any other thread.Well if you are not interested in debating me why are you in the thread at all.
Of course not – your observations are proof of climate change!And I do not think that my own view based on observations over my lifetime (close to the land) are beliefs.
I’m not disagreeing with you. Yes, we may have a problem. From a health perspective alone it can’t be good for us to spew vast amounts of pollution into the air we breathe, quite apart from any longer term effect it may have on the climate.It is not in concrete to the general community I agree, but we may have a problem most will agree, and to that we should be doing something about it for our future generations.
You may be interested to know that I have a solar hot water system and a solar power system that produces well in excess of my own power requirements.And do not say we cannot, changing the community mindset, as is happening, will bring about change.
Mt Wellington recorded 124 km/h wind this afternoon so that's more than enough wind I think. It seems that if we're not being fried then we'll be blown away instead.
With those conditions it's no surprise that we have fires back again unfortunately. It's a few hundred meters from my property at the moment....
OK, so how then did you remove the leaves from the pool cover, Miss Hale? We have the pool cover sitting on the water, covered all over with leaves: where to from there?
In my situation there is nowhere suitable to blow them off with a leaf blower, ditto hosing them off (even if running round three times a day with a hose was desirable).
Yep, that's the hill I'm on but a bit further down.Yes Smurf was thinking of you last night. We where sitting on the deck watching the fire creep it's way down the hill. It doesn't seem to have come much further overnight and looks like it's just smoldering . I can't believe they didn't try and completely put it out when we had those showers the other day. Maybe it's hard to access?
I always thought certain gum trees had that problem with dropping branches, thats just what they did, not to mention, they explode in a fire.
I am enjoying the cool change too, and rain in store for the weekend, my garden will be smiling
Bunyip: It would be astonishing if it was more than a few thousand years since there had been cyclones as strong as what we've seen in recent times (last 200 years or so).
Yes, it's very naive thinking.People seem to think climate only started around 150years ago or that it was magically stagnant until then.
The dinosaur footprints at Lark Quarry, near the outback Queensland town of Winton, or more specifically, the desert country in which they’re found, is another example of dramatic climatic events that occurred millions of years before man ever started doing any of the things that are now being blamed for climate change.Most of us will at some stage have heard of climate change so extreme that it created then flooded many times land bridges between Australia and PNG! That's some pretty freaking massive climate change! That has happened multiple times even in fairly recent (last couple hundred thousand years) times. Even if humans are having an impact, it is not doing anything appreciable compared to nature's normal fluctuations. Imagine if we did something so tremendous as creating a land bridge between Australia and PNG! Or radically turning Australia from a land of forest to a land of desert! Or flooding a massive area of land and making it a virtually unusable wetland. Thousands of these things go on all over the world very often, it's normal and natural, but a few hot days and everyone panics! Silly people
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