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by **Antony** » Sat 21 Jun, 2008 8:21 am

I had been worried about Thursday's (19 June) weather. The weather forecast has not been accurate.

The weather forecast (the day before) says it would rain in the morning and afternoon. Some of you may know that [sdt=14783]I had been sitting outside Apple Store Sydney from 3.30am[/sdt]. It only started to rain once I left Apple Store Sydney.

I took my raincoat and umbrella with me.

And 3.30am in Sydney was freezing.

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by **richard mitnick** » Sat 21 Jun, 2008 5:37 pm

First, that store is just flat out gorgeous-from the outside.

Second, I am a bit jealous. I prefer Winter.

New Jersey is hot, just plain hot, with thunderstorms almost every afternoon or evening. This means shutting down my four computers, which cost crunching time for WCG and BOINC.

There is supposed to be something about the staircase in every store, a center staircase from the ground floor to the top floor? Maybe the treads are all glass? Please tell us your impressions of the store. Over here, the story is that the Apple stores are selling over half of computers above $US1000.00.

Tell us all about it, and, especially if you part with any money.

>>RSM

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by **Antony** » Sun 22 Jun, 2008 8:25 am

richard mitnick wrote:Second, I am a bit jealous. I prefer Winter.

New Jersey is hot, just plain hot, with thunderstorms almost every afternoon or evening. This means shutting down my four computers, which cost crunching time for WCG and BOINC.

The weather here in Sydney cat easily go above 40C during summer (bush fire season).

During winter... cold but no beautiful snow.

I think I'd better keep the Apple Store discussion in [sdt=14783]another thread[/sdt]. You can also read more about the Apple Store grand opening experience in my blog entry.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sun 22 Jun, 2008 5:09 pm

There's a nasty chain of thunderstorms running through the Boston area right now. I'm watching Channel 7 News (WHDH); they say that a major highway is blocked up from tree limbs, some 100k are without power, and there was a quick spot for an ice cream store that was offering free ice cream, as their power is out due to a fallen tree and the stock ($8000 worth of ice cream) would have melted otherwise.

There are a couple of TV stations out. Channel 2 (WGBH), Channel 5 (WCVB), and Channel 44 (WGBX) aren't broadcasting anything whatsoever, while Channel 25 (WFXT) is broadcasting with lower power than usual. Their respective cable stations seem to work fine, though.

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by **richard mitnick** » Sun 22 Jun, 2008 5:21 pm

This is really good, Don,

I have Boston up on weather.com, I am using radar and satellite, they are showing 6:05PM, I am at 6:14PM, they show everything East in the Bay and beyond, a patch up by Danvers, and a biggie just North of Manchester, NH, up to near Baxter State Park, in Maine.

So, I think - wait! Now they are saying 5:10PM, so maybe I read it wrong. That would make more sense, an hour behind, and you are getting hit now. And, with that direction, it "looks like" a Nor'Easter, flowing from the North East.

This is great, this is what we need, we can all do this stuff when we can jump right on it, and see how weather.com works, for us, or against us. Invaluable, or un-valuable.

Many Many Thanks!!

>>RSM

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by **richard mitnick** » Sun 22 Jun, 2008 5:28 pm

Don,

Sorry, I jumped away to copy your and my post to a friend to show him how important SillyDog can be, even and beyond fixing computers.

I hope everyone you know is O.K., and that everything gets back to normal as quickly as possible.

>>RSM

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by **Antony** » Mon 23 Jun, 2008 8:52 am

richard mitnick wrote: to a friend to show him how important SillyDog can be, even and beyond fixing computers.

Thanks Richard.

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by **Antony** » Sun 29 Jun, 2008 4:46 pm

Cold now, but looking good for this week.

(Using Dashboard widget)

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by **richard mitnick** » Sun 29 Jun, 2008 5:59 pm

New jersey has been absolutely abysmal the last two days.

Saturday A.M., I went cycling. It reminded me of when a club member originally from Arizona told us that in Arizona, one simply had to be off the bike by noon because to be out in the heat after noon was dangerous.

Then, Saturday afternoon, we had an incredible thunder and lightening show and buckets and buckets of rain.

Today, Sunday, started out calm and hot. Steamy hot at 6:00AM. But then this afternoon we had two electrical storm events, each huge, separated by about an hour and a half.

Again, buckets and buckets of rain. Twice.

One simply cannot comprehend from whence cometh all of that water.

>>RSM

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by **biffadams** » Tue 15 Jul, 2008 2:41 pm

Those of us who live in Canada (anyone else?!) understands the meaning of EXTREMES! The summers are unbearably hot, the winter's unbearably COLD! Right now it feels like 40 degrees.

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by **richard mitnick** » Tue 15 Jul, 2008 3:36 pm

So, hey, should you be Dave or Biff?

And, thanks for finding your way to this thread. I am surprised and gratified that it has continued to interest people.

Is that 40 deg C or F?

If you go back into the thread, or if you have already looked at all of it, you will find me just constantly whining here in New Jersey; a major knock out thunder storm in the Boston area; an earthquake mid continent, and Antony doing really cool (no pun...) stuff from "Down Under".

Here is something interesting (at least to me): we have New Brunswick, NJ, while you have New Jersey, NB. When I call my oil dealer, and ask, where have I reached, and they say "New Jersey", it is actually your New Jersey.

I would love to have someone from Syracuse, the snow capital of the East. We have John in Pulaski, NY, but, pacem John, Pulaski is not Syracuse. Even though I do not live there, I was a member of Syracuse Public Radio, WCNY. I used to try to persuade Don Dolloff, the music director, that they should include a box of Sno-Caps candy with each membership card. I used to listen for the snow closings. Almost everyday.

We have had at least one person from Canada, and we welcome you and wish you sunny balmy days. But, you know, tell us the really freaky sool stuff.

>>RSM

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by **Happy Dude** » Sun 20 Jul, 2008 7:04 am

Weather here in South Australia is stupid. Currently in winter, no rain, no storms nothing. Just cold wind and dark clouds.

We need the rain, we're ...running out of water (if New South Wales and Victoria stopped using so much maybe some would actually make its way here. :lol:

)

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by **richard mitnick** » Sun 20 Jul, 2008 12:59 pm

Happy Dude-

Same water problem here, with the uses and diversions of the Colorado River, which supplies a lot of California agriculture and (oh my) Las Vegas.

John McPhee in "Encounters with the Archdruid", a book about David Brower, an originator of the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society (both of which dumped him over budget excesses), and the John Muir Institute, wrote in the section on Floyd Elgin Dominy (FED, get it?), Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation in the Department of the Interior, that the Colorado River often failed to reach its mouth in California at the Pacific Ocean.

>>RSM
New Jersey weather: Sumatra

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by **Antony** » Wed 23 Jul, 2008 3:56 am

Forecast for tomorrow, looking cold.

And the forecast for next 7 days in Sydney. Looking wet.

(Please bare in mind that the forecast has not been accurate for a while.)

All in Celsius (˚C).

Perhaps I shall take out the heater from the box. Not that I am too cheap to use the heater, but I am really too lazy to take it out.

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by **richard mitnick** » Wed 23 Jul, 2008 5:17 am

I am jealous. Our Summer has spent way too many days north of 90degF.

>>RSM

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