Rain you bastard!

As I type it is pouring outside.

Can't go and play with no lights, brakes and airfilter but will hope to be posting pics of 'mudfun' this weekend!

Have a safe weekend and I'll see you at the other end.

And for those in the Greater New South Wales area this is from Stormtracker which is an Energy Australia provision which shows lightning strike across NSW.

+ is a Positive Ground strike
- is a Negative Ground strike
x is a could to cloud strike

white is 15-30 mins since strike
yellow is 30-45 mins
Green is 45-75 mins
grey is 75-115 mins

To see what happening now go to:
http://www.northpower.com.au/wrs/Nthpower.nsf/html/home.html# 
Click on Stormtracker-

Hey Bronze,
how come all your posts are doubling up?
:alien

Hey Bronze,
how come all your posts are doubling up?
:alien

:P

Thanks to Ripplybulldog for taking the pics, and risking his life outside the dog on this excursion. Somehow I don't think his black 56 will be joining me next time it rains.

He's also not bad at assistant brake bleeder.

Cheers Azza

One more, cause I'm hooked on doubling up my posts.

Mud is good, so have you got anymore pics. i was love seeing buggies and bajas getting down and dirty


matt

Good to see a Baja doing what it was meant to! :bounce

Piccies like that make me wish I still had my 1957 baja.......

Good Sutff Mate.:bounce

here's a coupla old pikkies

geez its hard to get 'em down to 50kb tho!!!

here's a coupla old pikkies

geez its hard to get 'em down to 50kb tho!!!

Hey Bronze having withdrawals from the Geography class

Good maps though

Here some for you I found when researching for Jesse Martin's latest journey. They were wanting stuff for the schools/educational side of it (cut and pasted from an email not sure how it will look) I was fascinated by what I found. Have lots of others.

World Glacier Distribution (Himalayas - Nepal & the Andes South America)

http://nsidc.org/data/glacier_inventory/index.html 

Here it is!!!!! Simplified, great models & satellite images – (even has floating buoys) – it’s a huge science & so important

‘Elements of the Climate System’ – World Ocean Circulation Experiment brochure, from World Meteorological Organization (very slow to load, 16 page document, but worth it)

http://www.wmo.ch/web/wcrp/brochures/WOCEbrochure.PDF 

International Program for Antarctic Buoys, part of the climate research program

http://www.antcrc.utas.edu.au/antcrc/buoys/photos.html 

I’m beginning to wonder if these buoys are posing a shipping hazard, drifting around the way they do. They look pretty big!!

Reasons to measure water levels

http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/levelwhy.html 

Sea level rise in Australia & the Pacific – National Tidal Facility

http://www.ntf.flinders.edu.au/TEXT/CONF/cook2000/papers/Mitchell2.pdf 

Yeah the muds great fun alright. Even had Azza keen to buy another Baja when I'd finished ploughing through the couple of bogs we could find.

That Noaa site - http://www.noaa.org  is as awesome site and just one of its sections the primary focus during my studies into the La nina / El nino. It was judged the webs most expensive site a couple of years ago as draws info from 100's of sats, bouys, meteorlogical stations, web cams, scientists and geological / astronomical societies. It is of course very American but collects data for the entire globe.

Here the other two photos we took on the day. We were heading into Newcastle so only stayed 1/2 an hour because next weekend the water holes will probably be dried up for sure.

There you go, Hopefully there will still be some mud around next weekend. If anything it will probably be crusted up mud which is just a pain as it becomes dangerious when it falls out from under the car as it drys. Plus its not good for seals.

Great action shots:thumb

Who takes the pics and how do you plan them?

They wern't really planned as such. My wife and I wen't down to this bush a few months ago when it last rained with her camera to get some black and white shots with her SLR but unfortunately they didn't work out.

After the rain last week we, Azza and I were going into town and I decided once we finished putting in the master cylinder and bleeding the brakes, hopefully we'd have a quick moment to race back to those holes and get a couple of snaps.

Azza took the shots trying hard not to get splashed with mud onto his good clothes. It was heaps of fun and those four shots were taken in say 15 mins as their were heaps of ferals on their motorbikes racing around the bush tracks. Didn't want to get ploughed into by them so we left.

We made a couple of runs through the mud just to stur it up a bit as the water was pretty clean when we arrived. Digital cameras are great. Don't like a shot, delete it and have another go. Azza did a great job as these all worked out well and he only got one drop of mud on him I think.

This shot was later on in at the Newcastle Foreshore. The yellow Oval is VWFool's - he was recently accosted by my neighbour for dropping of a leaflet and the New Beetle Green 57', is James' who was at home putting together a splitty.

Great shot of the trio:thumb

Keep bringing it down Hewy!

This post started a couple of weeks ago when we had a afternoon and evening of heavy rain. Now we are into our second day and this wind is just picking up meaning that it probably wont last much longer but we have had a hell of a lot of rain. Not enough to break the drought but plenty to wash off the dust, get the fires out and start the grass growing again. The radio announced that their are only 46 fires still burning across NSW and that number will be greatly reduced by this evening. 96% of the state has recieved substantial rain and many centre have recorded significant low temp records like Sydney and Scone but in the low teens yesterday, this time of year!

[Edited on 11-12-2002 by The_Bronze.]

Excellent news!!!!!

Only 46 fires still burning!!!:o More rain quick and hard:sandrine