We started off the month with 90 degrees. Mostly cloudy. High 90's and some showers predicted for the next three days. :yes:
Here in South Oz, we started the month with 90 -
mm of rain, solid cloud cover (above the thick fog!

) and single digit max temps with lots more rain, downpours, & gale force winds forecast for
at least the next week!! :shocked: They're even forecasting snow down to 700 metres, if conditions are right - we're at a bit over 800 metres, but it's too bloody wet here to snow!! :banghead:
Even here up in the Hills & on our little hill, the ground is so saturated that the new septic holding tanks on all the new development just up the road a bit, so they are all as yet still empty, are floating up out of the ground where they were buried just last month; all the low lying grasses & plants are dying due to their continually soaking wet feet (at least the Red Gums & Stringy Bark's can handle that for a few months!) and the river down the bottom of hill is once again threatening to flood all the lower areas. The poor bugga's trying to work on the new Ambo Station & the upgraded Swimming Centre just downstream a bit from us (and not as far up the hill as we are) are paddling around in mud that's almost
feet deep... so not getting much work done! Mind you, the hole they dug for the new Swimming pool is full already, so maybe that's progress??
We had a Frost warning last night, so I covered all my veggies to protect them. When I went out early on (before my usual morning ride) to uncover them, we had a freezing fog and both the measured & 'feels like' ambient temp was still around 0° C, so I left them covered until I got back a bit after 09:00... By then, the temp had risen to about 3°, with a dew point of 3.6°, so I thought I'd take the chance... but all the covers were still solid lumps, with heaps of biiig fat dollops of ice about 5-10mm in diameter scattered frozen all over on top. I think the frost I saw earlier must've thawed juuust enough at around sunrise to puddle & form these big drops, then once the sun was up but hidden behind the fog again, they all froze again! I gave it another hour & almost 1/2 after that before venturing out again, and I've just taken the last of the covers off... I did try to hang the covers out, but they were all still crunchy & bloody heavy, and I don't think they'll 'dry' anyway - more likely 'freeze'!! :yikes: So they're sitting in a heap in the middle of the yard, waiting for someone more motivated to come out & do something with them... :shocked:
I might just go for another ride... or maybe stay inside in the warm and watch TV?!
