Yolla overnight, High winds that blew the ice out of my scotch, and 26mm rain, fine and sunny this morning .

In western Viti Levu in Fiji where we are volunteering we have had huge rains now for over 2 weeks.
Roads and towns have been flooded and many roads cut from time to time. Bus services have been restricted and people have not been able to get to work on some days.
There have been 8 or 9 deaths and while the rain has eased for the last 24 hours many crops have been lost and many homes wrecked by water and by landslides.

On a couple of occasions there have been misleading reports of impending cyclones. Many local people are terrified because they know that a direct cyclone hit will mean they loose EVERYTHING.
Some service organisations like Rotary have been distributing emergency parcels, but some people have nothing to eat and many have been without  safe water supply for almost a week.
Infections from waterborn diseases are expected to rise.

Tropical Cyclone Jasmine is now about 1,000km west of us and intensifying. We expect it to slide away to the SE over the next few days. We hope it will.

Cheers,
Peter

-- Edited by Peter_n_Margaret on Monday 6th of February 2012 07:56:01 PM

here in mount beauty and the name speaks for its self sunny and now a slight breeze just perfect

florinhill wrote:

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Yolla overnight, High winds that blew the ice out of my scotch, and 26mm rain, fine and sunny this morning .

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That's terrible fh, ice gone from the scotch, QUICK replace the ice and top up the scotch.

I am in the Mid West and we have not had to many days below 35, since xmas. but we expect that and you sought of get used to it. a dry heat. the weekend before it was 45 both days 42 today and 40 or above for the next 5 days. not to many Nomads cruising around this area. we do expect a couple of 47's in Feb.
a good weather sight is Wily Weather, punch in you area and then your town, it will have every town and siding in the country. have a play you will get the wind, temperature and expected rainfall.
cheers.

Well here in balmy old Canberra its wet and stormyish, funny weather at the moment its either as cold as a mother in laws kiss, that windy even the flys cant stay put or its that hot you could cook an egg on your forehead

It sounds nasty in Fiji. Keep up the good work. How do you get into that work?

In good old Adelaide it's cold. Yeah I know it's supposed to be summer. I haven't lost it yet. It's cold here. About mid 20's during the day, cold at night. Good for sleeping, but really could do with a bed warmer to cuddle. Mmmm..... Have to work on that one.
I like it warm. It will be Autumn and winter soon enough.
We haven't had much rain, just the cold wind, overcast and cold. Brrrrrr!!!!!

Bit of extreme weather in Canberra today, good storm earlier, was out doing the horses and a bloody great bolt of lightning went bang, cleared the trees of all the ****ys trying to stay dry and frightened the hell out of our horses, destined to get best part of 100mm tonite, funny its looks fairly clear outside

I woke up thismorning to strong winds (Again) and drizzle here in Sth West Gippsland but I still whent for my walk

We didn't get the promised thunderstorm yesterday. Today is bright with blue skies but can see clouds in the distance. Doubt we are going to get any of the promised rain either.

Stinking hot with no reprieve likely at Bjelke-Petersen Dam near Murgon Qld

  

A couple of light showers early today but since then beautiful and sunny.

just had a huge thunderstorm go thru nowra, lasted about 5 minutes hail and now back to semi blue sky???

-- Edited by milo on Sunday 12th of February 2012 05:34:25 PM

At Greenpoint on the very west coast of Tassie and it's blue sky, sunny, warm and around 25 degrees. The water is very refreshing for a swim too

Brett