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Extreme Weather
« on: January 24, 2019, 06:22:32 AM »
Stay cool people as it's a day to stay home and not go riding.   45 degres forecast for Adelaide, with a chance that we will crack the highest max ever recorded which was 46.1 in 1939.     :H
Port Augusta is foracast 49, so "Mikep", stay home and watch the cricket with the AC cranking.

The police are very active in the Adelaide Hills, watching for firebugs, and running active surveillance on the known firebugs.   :law
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2019, 08:26:47 AM »
I took a week of A/L as the family were due to arrive back in Adelaide yesterday but my son falling ill meant it got postponed until next week.  I'm home alone and the A/C is cranked up.  My Australia Day long weekend is now in its sixth day.
 

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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2019, 09:24:58 AM »
We have had heat here too....well heat for Guyra anyway !! Anything over 28 degrees and the oldies are dropping in the main street here  ;-*

But it also bought us afternoon storms to with 4'' of liquid gold in the last week  :runyay


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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2019, 09:39:35 AM »
Only 42C forecast here today after a cool 41 yesterday.

Had one day last week with 43 which still didn't break the 43.5 highest on record from Jan 2009.
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2019, 10:07:26 AM »
Luckily for SA the wind is blowing.  I see they're generating 887 MW from wind and solar at the moment, but still importing 210MW from Victoria (which is 526 short themselves, but is passing on some of the 687MW it's getting from NSW and TAS).  Pray the wind doesn't drop!!
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2019, 10:46:29 AM »
Hey st2up anything over 10 degrees is a heat wave in guyra :runyay
 

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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2019, 11:16:51 AM »
It was 33 at 6:15 when I left for work. It will be a rather warm ride home
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2019, 11:23:58 AM »
Luckily for SA the wind is blowing.  I see they're generating 887 MW from wind and solar at the moment, but still importing 210MW from Victoria (which is 526 short themselves, but is passing on some of the 687MW it's getting from NSW and TAS).  Pray the wind doesn't drop!!

We have some quite expensive gas turbine generators for reserve backup power.
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2019, 01:40:21 PM »
We have some quite expensive gas turbine generators for reserve backup power.

They must have been running this morning when SA was paying $320/MW and QLD was paying $88.99.
Our dirty coal-fired generators and lovely domestic roof-top solar panels are currently pushing 754MW south to fill the gaps.
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2019, 02:00:52 PM »
We've cracked the all time hottest day in Adelaide of 46.1, set in 1939, as it's now 46.5.      It's quite pleasant inside my home, but bloody hot when I need to go outside.   :H
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2019, 02:01:46 PM »
I've yet to step outside. 
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2019, 02:34:02 PM »
We've cracked the all time hottest day in Adelaide of 46.1, set in 1939, as it's now 46.5.      It's quite pleasant inside my home, but bloody hot when I need to go outside.   :H

Don't run the a/c longer than you have to.  The current power is costing $472.10/MW in SA, probably due to the gas generators going flat tack.  Wind and solar are only at half strength.
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2019, 04:47:16 PM »
Luckily for SA the wind is blowing.  I see they're generating 887 MW from wind and solar at the moment, but still importing 210MW from Victoria (which is 526 short themselves, but is passing on some of the 687MW it's getting from NSW and TAS).  Pray the wind doesn't drop!!
We have our own little Solar set up beside the town going into the grid.

The 100 plus wind turbines 25 km down the road are all working when we past about an hour ago. We also noticed a new Solar set up going in at Yongala which is 10km away



 
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2019, 04:51:36 PM »
We have 36C in the lounge room which is the hottest we've had in the eight years we've been here so we might have broken our 2009 43.5 record.

Clouds have been building up for the last few hours and looks like our forecasted electrical storm is well under development.
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2019, 08:19:14 PM »
I don't know if it's a record, but the spot price for SA power has been $14,500/MW since around midday.  It's $14162.80 in Victoria tonight. For comparison, QLD and NSW are about $100 and TAS an extraordinarily low $13.28/MW.
Those electrical storms are a god-send when they have cooling rain in them.
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2019, 08:46:04 PM »
Records broken today at:

Adelaide

Adelaide Airport

Clare

Edinburgh

Hindmarsh Island

Kuitpo

Marree

Minlaton

Minnipa

Noarlunga

Parafield

Port Lincoln

Port Pirie

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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2019, 10:01:02 PM »
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well bugga me after a week of FARKKK en HOT :H  that's almost killed my dog Kimba  :'(  . we had a cool day today 35c  and I've been out and bought a new battery for STranger , the heat expanded the gel and split the old one. I have my old Aunger Pro trailer hitched behind him sitting ready to ride out the gates at 5am tomorrow riding down to Tarcutta for breakfast and meet a guy from Warnambool who's buying the trailer. Its going to be hot and I should roll over 200,000k's and I hope to be focused to get a photo. I haven't ridden STranger for over a year now and tonight went to the servo 300mtrs and back.. Facebook memories had a pic of me leaving the Gold Coast on 18/12/1999 on my first trip with this trailer. that ride alone was 10,000+ k's.. The end of an era... Hopefully I'll be home by 12.30 > 1pm before I have been cooked.
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2019, 10:07:49 PM »
Have a safe ride Johnny  :like, hot day in Vic  :H
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #18 on: January 25, 2019, 09:19:14 AM »
Today in Victoria, "Fair Dinkum power" is giving up the ghost.

"Energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio told 3AW radio on Friday morning that she “can’t rule out brown-outs” with three generators across the Yallourn and Loy Yang A power stations out of action, meaning the state is down more than 1000MW of power generation capacity."

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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2019, 09:41:36 AM »
We have 36C in the lounge room which is the hottest we've had in the eight years we've been here so we might have broken our 2009 43.5 record.
Only 43 yesterday at the weather station 10kms away so could have been a little warmer here. Yongala is known to be the coldest place in SA; even in summer it seems.
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« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2019, 11:21:02 AM »
.... and with a push for us to go to electric cars, to be clean and green, where do they think the electricity to charge them is going to come from, with insufficient generation capacity for current needs.   We need to have a non-emotional debate about going to a network of nuclear power stations.    After all, we have the uranium, and better opportunity to store the used fuel than many other countries.
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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2019, 12:17:43 PM »
.... and with a push for us to go to electric cars, to be clean and green, where do they think the electricity to charge them is going to come from, with insufficient generation capacity for current needs.   We need to have a non-emotional debate about going to a network of nuclear power stations.    After all, we have the uranium, and better opportunity to store the used fuel than many other countries.

Looking at just Tesla some of their US charging stations use solar panels and the plan is to convert them all.

Would make sense if they did that out here as well -

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« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2019, 03:09:07 PM »
.... and with a push for us to go to electric cars, to be clean and green, where do they think the electricity to charge them is going to come from, with insufficient generation capacity for current needs.   We need to have a non-emotional debate about going to a network of nuclear power stations.    After all, we have the uranium, and better opportunity to store the used fuel than many other countries.

Just reading down this thread and drafting the same post in my mind Pete. The sooner the better.

Also feel how hypocritical can we get exporting uranium but not using it and not taking nuclear waste back for long term storage.
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« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2019, 03:10:07 PM »
We have had heat here too....well heat for Guyra anyway !! Anything over 28 degrees and the oldies are dropping in the main street here  ;-*

But it also bought us afternoon storms to with 4'' of liquid gold in the last week  :runyay


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Re: Extreme Weather
« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2019, 05:33:16 PM »
Looking at just Tesla some of their US charging stations use solar panels and the plan is to convert them all.

Would make sense if they did that out here as well -


Has anyone done the maths on how much panel area will be needed (on a clear sunny day) to charge one car for say 100 km of travel?
It's not a small amount of energy unless everyone is going to ride in one of those two person pods with no cargo space and no crumple zone and no aircon.
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