text:
"Oh, monsieur, your thirty-seven and a half pistoles are all counted out
ready for you, upstairs in my chamber; but there are in that chamber
thirty customers, who are sucking the staves of a little barrel of Oporto
which I tapped for them this very morning.  Give me a minute, - only a
minute?"
"So be it; so be it."
"I will go," said Raoul, in a low voice, to D'Artagnan; "this hilarity is
vile!"
"Monsieur," replied D'Artagnan, sternly, "you will please to remain where
you are.  The soldier ought to familiarize himself with all kinds of
spectacles.  There are in the eye, when it is young, fibers which we must
learn how to harden; and we are not truly generous and good save from the
moment when the eye has become hardened, and the heart remains tender.
Besides, my little Raoul, would you leave me alone here?  That would be
very wrong of you.  Look, there is yonder in the lower court a tree, and
under the shade of that tree we shall breathe more freely than in this
hot atmosphere of spilt wine."
From the spot on which they had placed themselves the two new guests of
the Image-de-Notre-Dame heard the ever-increasing hubbub of the tide of
people, and lost neither a cry nor a gesture of the drinkers, at tables
in the _cabaret_, or disseminated in the chambers.  If D'Artagnan had
wished to place himself as a _vidette_ for an expedition, he could not
have succeeded better.  The tree under which he and Raoul were seated
covered them with its already thick foliage; it was a low, thick chestnut-
tree, with inclined branches, that cast their shade over a table so
dilapidated the drinkers had abandoned it.  We said that from this post
D'Artagnan saw everything.  He observed the goings and comings of the
waiters; the arrival of fresh drinkers; the welcome, sometimes friendly,
sometimes hostile, given to the newcomers by others already installed.
He observed all this to amuse himself, for the thirty-seven and a half
pistoles were a long time coming.  Raoul recalled his attention to it.
"Monsieur," said he, "you do not hurry your tenant, and the condemned
will soon be here.  There will then be such a press we shall not be able
to get out."
"You are right," said the musketeer; "_Hola!_ oh! somebody there!
_Mordioux!_"  But it was in vain he cried and knocked upon the wreck of
the old table, which fell to pieces beneath his fist; nobody came.
D'Artagnan was preparing to go and seek the _cabaretier_ himself, to
force him to a definite explanation, when the door of the court in which
he was with Raoul, a door which communicated with the garden situated at
the back, opened, and a man dressed as a cavalier, with his sword in the
sheath, but not at his belt, crossed the court without closing the door;
and having cast an oblique glance at D'Artagnan and his companion,
directed his course towards the _cabaret_ itself, looking about in all
directions with his eyes capable of piercing walls of consciences.
"Humph!" said D'Artagnan, "my tenants are communicating.  That, no doubt,
now, is some amateur in hanging matters."  At the same moment the cries
and disturbance in the upper chambers ceased.  Silence, under such
circumstances, surprises more than a twofold increase of noise.
D'Artagnan wished to see what was the cause of this sudden silence.  He
then perceived that this man, dressed as a cavalier, had just entered the
principal chamber, and was haranguing the tipplers, who all listened to
him with the greatest attention.  D'Artagnan would perhaps have heard his
speech but for the dominant noise of the popular clamors, which made a
formidable accompaniment to the harangue of the orator.  But it was soon
finished, and all the people the _cabaret_ contained came out, one after
the other, in little groups, so that there only remained six in the
chamber; one of these six, the man with the sword, took the _cabaretier_
aside, engaging him in discourse more or less serious, whilst the others
lit a great fire in the chimney-place - a circumstance rendered strange
by the fine weather and the heat.
"It is very singular," said D'Artagnan to Raoul, "but I think I know
those faces yonder."
"Don't you think you can smell the smoke here?" said Raoul.
"I rather think I can smell a conspiracy," replied D'Artagnan.
He had not finished speaking, when four of these men came down into the
court, and without the appearance of any bad design, mounted guard at the
door of communication, casting, at intervals, glances at D'Artagnan,
which signified many things.
"_Mordioux!_" said D'Artagnan, in a low voice," there is something going
on.  Are you curious, Raoul?"
"According to the subject, chevalier."
"Well, I am as curious as an old woman.  Come a little more in front; we
shall get a better view of the place.  I would lay a wager that view will
be something curious."
"But you know, monsieur le chevalier, that I am not willing to become a
passive and indifferent spectator of the death of the two poor devils."
"And I, then - do you think I am a savage?  We will go in again, when it
is time to do so.  Come along!"  And they made their way towards the
front of the house, and placed themselves near the window which, still
more strangely than the rest, remained unoccupied.  The two last
drinkers, instead of looking out at this window, kept up the fire.  On
seeing D'Artagnan and his friend enter: - "Ah! ah! a reinforcement,"
murmured they.
D'Artagnan jogged Raoul's elbow.  "Yes, my braves, a reinforcement," said
he; "_cordieu!_ there is a famous fire.  Whom are you going to cook?"
The two men uttered a shout of jovial laughter, and, instead of
answering, threw on more wood.  D'Artagnan could not take his eyes off
"I suppose," said one of the fire-makers, "they sent you to tell us the
time - did not they?"
"Without doubt they have," said D'Artagnan, anxious to know what was
going on; "why should I be here else, if it were not for that?"
"Then place yourself at the window, if you please, and observe."
D'Artagnan smiled in his mustache, made a sign to Raoul, and placed
himself at the window.
Chapter LXII:
Vive Colbert!
The spectacle which the Greve now presented was a frightful one.  The
heads, leveled by the perspective, extended afar, thick and agitated as
the ears of corn in a vast plain.  From time to time a fresh report, or a
distant rumor, made the heads oscillate and thousands of eyes flash.  Now
and then there were great movements.  All those ears of corn bent, and
became waves more agitated than those of the ocean, which rolled from the
extremities to the center, and beat, like the tides, against the hedge of
archers who surrounded the gibbets.  Then the handles of the halberds
were let fall upon the heads and shoulders of the rash invaders; at
times, also, it was the steel as well as the wood, and, in that case, a
large empty circle was formed around the guard; a space conquered upon
the extremities, which underwent, in their turn the oppression of the
sudden movement, which drove them against the parapets of the Seine.
From the window, that commanded a view of the whole Place, D'Artagnan
saw, with interior satisfaction, that such of the musketeers and guards
as found themselves involved in the crowd, were able, with blows of their
fists and the hilts of theirs swords, to keep room.  He even remarked
that they had succeeded, by that _esprit de corps_ which doubles the
strength of the soldier, in getting together in one group to the amount
of about fifty men; and that, with the exception of a dozen stragglers
whom he still saw rolling here and there, the nucleus was complete, and
within reach of his voice.  But it was not the musketeers and guards that
drew the attention of D'Artagnan.  Around the gibbets, and particularly
at the entrances to the arcade of Saint-Jean, moved a noisy mass, a busy
mass; daring faces, resolute demeanors were to be seen here and there,
mingled with silly faces and indifferent demeanors; signals were
exchanged, hands given and taken.  D'Artagnan remarked among the groups,
and those groups the most animated, the face of the cavalier whom he had
seen enter by the door of communication from his garden, and who had gone
upstairs to harangue the drinkers.  That man was organizing troops and
giving orders.
"_Mordioux!_" said D'Artagnan to himself, "I was not deceived; I know
that man, - it is Menneville.  What the devil is he doing here?"
A distant murmur, which became more distinct by degrees, stopped this
reflection, and drew his attention another way.  This murmur was
occasioned by the arrival of the culprits; a strong picket of archers
preceded them, and appeared at the angle of the arcade.  The entire crowd
now joined as if in one cry; all the cries united formed one immense
howl.  D'Artagnan saw Raoul was becoming pale, and he slapped him roughly
on the shoulder.  The fire-keepers turned round on hearing the great cry,
and asked what was going on.  "The condemned are arrived," said
D'Artagnan.  "That's well," replied they, again replenishing the fire.
D'Artagnan looked at them with much uneasiness; it was evident that these
men who were making such a fire for no apparent purpose had some strange
intentions.  The condemned appeared upon the Place.  They were walking,
the executioner before them, whilst fifty archers formed a hedge on their
right and their left.  Both were dressed in black; they appeared pale,
but firm.  They looked impatiently over the people's heads, standing on
tip-toe at every step.  D'Artagnan remarked this.  "_Mordioux!_" cried
he, "they are in a great hurry to get a sight of the gibbet!"  Raoul drew
back, without, however, having the power to leave the window.  Terror
even has its attractions.
"To the death! to the death!" cried fifty thousand voices.
"Yes; to the death!" howled a hundred frantic others, as if the great
mass had given them the reply.
"To the halter! to the halter!" cried the great whole; "_Vive le roi!_"
"Well," said D'Artagnan, "this is droll; I should have thought it was M.
Colbert who had caused them to be hung."


A special party was held to celebrate a resident's significant milestone.
Staff and residents at Princess Court nursing home, in Hedley Road, Royal Quays, North Shields, were joined by friends and relatives of Kathleen Drummond to help celebrate her 100th birthday.
Born in Essex, Kathleen helped deliver hundreds of babies while working as a midwife in the east end of London during the 1950s.
She married Reg and the pair lived in Surrey before moving north. Kathleen lived in Whitley Bay until last year, able to look after herself until the age of 99.
She said the secret to a long life was 'hard work'.
As well as a birthday card from the Queen, Kathleen enjoyed a party at the home.


Motorola offers a 1 year warranty with every device they sell, which means the company is really good at making their customers feel like they'll be taken care of. Unfortunately, when displays go out and hardware fails, Motorola is proving not to be particularly good at actually fulfilling these warranties. That's why a slew of betrayed-feeling customers are filing a $5 million lawsuit against the Lenovo-owned company.
You don't have to look very hard to find evidence of Motorola's poor customer service. At the Consumer Affairs website, the company has a 1.1-star rating out of 5, and just scratching the surface of any Motorola forum will cause a deluge of complaints to spill out. Eventually though, enough is enough, and among those taking action against Motorola is Douglas Lynch.
Douglas Lynch joined this class action case after going through the warranty renewal from hell for his Moto 360. The device's back-plate cracked, and Lynch contacted Motorola to get a replacement. Representatives told him that once his device was received, a replacement would be shipped within four days. Nearly two weeks later, after hearing nothing, Lynch contacted Motorola to find out what gives.
The company explained that a replacement device wasn't available. Lynch offered to upgrade to a more recent model of the smartwatch and pay the difference, but was told this was against policy. After fighting through a series of phone calls and emails over the period of the next few weeks, his replacement finally arrived… and it was a less expensive variant than the one he had purchased.
Other users have reported similar experiences with the company. Many fans of the Moto X line (some on their fourth replacement device) have pointed out that the refurbished devices Motorola ships to fulfill warranties are frequently glitchy, buggy, or just plain broken.
The $5 million class action lawsuit claims that Motorola has violated their express warranty, which means they are in violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, which ensures that businesses must make good on any warranties they issue. The filings also indicate that Motorola makes getting customer service even more difficult by tucking away the relevant contact information and not making it clearly available. Lawyers accuse the company of using "unfair, unscrupulous, immoral, and oppressive" business tactics.
Motorola has a long history of providing exceptional products and services to its customers. We are aware of the lawsuit, and are investigating the claims, which we believe to be without merit.
What are your thoughts regarding Motorola finding themselves with their feet to the fire? Let us know in the comments below, and stay tuned to Android Authority for all the latest news about the companies that make the devices you love!
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Never played this adventure before, so let's dive right in. Are you ready?
One little trick when you're writing fantasy – throw letters together and hope for the best.
Fer instance, Chasms of Malice takes place in the lands of Hgsetegs (or something similar). The evil Guiegew has stolen the powerful Shield of Tsgseggt, and as the Heir of Fgjrgnsgs you need to go and save the world by slaying the seven demons of Iseghsurw. But fear not, for the Goddess Igseugsejiise watches over you and guides your path, as you confront the foul minions of Cjrnhjisdih, Jvrguiwe and Rvnjsrnhso.
Make sensible names for things, damn it!!
Right, so this adventure starts off with you as a third-assistant rabbit skinner in the king's kitchen. One morning, you're yanked by the ear to the throne room, where the King tells you that some nasty buggers tunneled into his vaults and his magic shield has been nicked. So now you need to go save the universe. He gives you a pointy stick and has you shoved into the tunnel.
I kinda wish I was exaggerating there. In fact, I am. He gives you a cat, too. I'm not sure why, maybe the dark lord is allergic to kittens. Throughout the adventure, it serves to occasionally meow at me, claw at my coat, sometimes go off and catch fish, and generally be the object of my prayers.
I stumble through the tunnel for a while until I find a dead rabbit and some bits of wood. Eventually I come to a small bridge over a chasm, which is guarded by an especially unpleasant elf. I kill it, set up camp for lunch, and am soon attacked by a ground-hawk. Which is like a hawk, except it digs through the ground. I don't know what that is, or why such a thing even has wings in the first place, but I'm sure it will be featuring in a pokemon game at some point.
Soon, we find our way into a large cavern which contains a 'famous' tavern. Famous, no doubt, for being the only tavern set into the wall of a large cavern. A figure stumbles out of the door and falls over, I try to help him, but he tries to kill me instead so I have no option but to chop his arms and legs off. The tavern is full of orcs and trolls, but the barmaid asks me to go upstairs to meet her dad, who tells me that the Dark Lord knows of my quest and that the tunnels are full of his servants, so I should meet one of his friends in the nearby caves.
I slip out a side entrance to the tavern and head down some tunnels, dodging falling stalactites as I go. After saving some weird tunnel-dwelling git from a giant spider, I eventually find what I presume to be the barmaid's friend. He's in a small hovel full of books, and he tells me some cyphers in order to solve the coded signs that have been left throughout the dungeon. He also tells me that I'll need to find the ancient place of Gusegsghfewu so that I can temper my magic sword and so on. I note down the code for the glyphs he tells me.
Those glyphs tell me the safe direction to travel in the next tunnel, so after a quick rest for dinner I encounter a group of dwarves. Their leader casts a sleeping spell on me, and I wake up in their hovel sometime later. The dwarf gives me my sword back, tells me that they are my friends, and their home is then immediately attacked by orcs. I fight off three of them, one of which is hit by one of the dwarves poison spray arrows (the book doesn't indicate what the result of this happens to be, though, so I assume it just dies).
I follow the dwarf captain, a lady called Aspra, as she and her group flee into the tunnels. It starts to get hotter and soon we encounter a river of lava, requiring us to jump from stone to stone in order to cross. Later we set up camp near a river (of water, not lava) and Aspra tries to bore me to death by telling me her life story. I get so bored that I decide to go fishing. I don't have a fishing rod, so I try to catch one by hand, resulting in my thumb being bitten off by a fish. If I survive this, I'll tell people I lost it in battle with a rock troll.
Aspra decides to raid one of the dark lord's provision caravans. I decide that it's a good time to pray to the goddess Etuegtasg to regain my luck points, which are quite low at this point. I'm glad of this, because during the raid I leap onto a caravan and am almost chopped up by an elf. Barely surviving, we return to camp and I decide that it's time to venture into the dark lord's lands via hiding in a cart full of foul-smelling leather skins. By a process of sheer luck, I manage to only get stabbed by the dark lord's guards once while they check the cart, instead of a full possible three times.
Given that I've spent my whole life skinning rabbits in the kitchen, I decide that I really don't want to sneak into the orc's kitchen, and instead work my way through some tunnels until I get to a room full of orcs who are having fun torturing a dwarf that's chained to a table. I free the dwarf. By a process of sheer luck, I manage to only get stabed by the orcs seven times while I fight them off, instead of dying horribly right there and… this isn't so lucky after all, I realise. I hope that the dwarf I've rescued will be of some use, but he instead opts to sit in a corner and not move.
This book is largely forgettable. I didn't play it as a kid, so I don't have any fond memories associated with it, and it's not left a huge impression on me as an adult. It's alright, there's nothing bad about it, but there's nothing that really stands out about it. You spend most of your time moving through tunnels and tunnels, and more tunnels, and a few more tunnels. If it wants to give you a really big surprise with some new landscape, it might give you a cavern. If you've ever trudged all your way through Blackwing Lair, you'll know the feeling.


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MaAsLin2 is the next generation of MaAsLin.
If you use the MaAsLin2 software, please cite our manuscript: Himel Mallick, Timothy L. Tickle, Lauren J. McIver, Gholamali Rahnavard, George Weingart, Joseph N. Paulson, Siyuan Ma, Boyu Ren, Emma Schwager, Ayshwarya Subramanian, Eric A. Franzosa, Hector Corrada Bravo, Curtis Huttenhower. "Multivariable Association in Population-scale Meta'omic Surveys" (In Preparation).
MaAsLin2 was developed to find associations between microbiome multi'omics features and complex metadata in population-scale epidemiological studies. The software includes multiple analysis methods, normalization, and transform options to customize analysis for your specific study.
MaAsLin2 is an R package that can be run on the command line or as an R function. It requires the following R packages included in Biocondutor and CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network). Please install these packages before running MaAsLin2.
These packages can be installed through Bioconductor by first sourcing biocLite with source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") and then installing each package with biocLite("edgeR").
These packages can be installed in R with install.packages('pscl') or from the command line $ R -q -e "install.packages('pscl', repos='http://cran.r-project.org')" individually (for those packages which you do not yet have installed) or as a set by providing the complete list as a vector.
MaAsLin2 can be run from the command line or as an R function. If only running from the command line, you do not need to install the MaAsLin2 package but you will need to install the MaAsLin2 dependencies.
$ R -q -e "source('https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R'); biocLite('edgeR'); biocLite('metagenomeSeq')"
$ R -q -e "install.packages(c('lmerTest','pscl','pbapply','car','dplyr','vegan','chemometrics','ggplot2','pheatmap','cplm','hash','logging','data.table','MASS','MuMIn'), repos='http://cran.r-project.org')"
MaAsLin2 can be run from the command line or as an R function. Both methods require the same arguments, have the same options, and use the same default settings.
Provide the full path to the MaAsLin2 executable (ie ./R/Maaslin2.R if you are in the source folder).
Replace $DATA with the path to your data (or features) file.
Replace $METADATA with the path to your metadata file.
Replace $OUTPUT with the path to the folder to write the output.
MaAsLin2 requires two input files.
This file is tab-delimited formatted with features as columns and samples as rows (the transpose is also okay).
Possible features in this file include data like taxonomic or gene abundances.
This file is tab-delimited formatted with metadata as columns and samples as rows (the transpose is also okay).
Possible metadata in this file include gender or age.
The data file can contain samples not included in the metadata file (along with the reverse case). For both cases, those samples not included in both files will be removed from the analysis. Also the samples do not need to be in the same order in the two files.
NOTE: If running MaAsLin2 as a function, the data and metadata inputs can be of type data.frame instead of a path to a file.
MaAsLin2 generates two types of output files: data and visualization.
all_results.tsv : This file contains all of the association results ordered by increasing q-value.
significant_results.tsv : This file is a subset of the data in the first file. It only includes those associations with q-values less than or equal to the significance threshold.
residuals.rds : This file contains a data frame with residuals for each feature analyzed from the model selected.
maaslin2.log : This file contains all of the debug information for the run. It includes all settings, warnings, errors, and steps run.
heatmap.pdf : This file contains a heatmap of the significant associations.
[0-9]+.pdf : These files are scatter plots with one generated for each significant association.
Example input files can be found in the tests folder of the MaAsLin2 source.
When running this command, all output files will be written to a folder named demo_output.
Run MaAsLin2 help to print a list of the options and the default settings.
There are two functions in MaAsLin2 which visualize the outputs and provide ggplot2 plots that can be used to generate manuscript/report quality figures.
Question: When I run from the command line I see the error Maaslin2.R: command not found. How do I fix this?
Answer: Provide the full path to the executable when running Maaslin2.R.
Question: When I run as a function I see the error Error in library(Maaslin2): there is no package called 'Maaslin2'. How do I fix this?
Answer: Install the R package and then try loading the library again.
Question: When I try to install the R package I see errors about dependencies not being installed. Why is this?
Answer: Installing the R package will not automatically install the packages MaAsLin2 requires. Please install the dependencies and then install the MaAsLin2 R package.


The original title was going to be Tarquin and the Roman Republic, but I'm saving that in case I ever start a synthpop group.
But anyways, it really is the Roman Republic! We made it, although in all fairness it's not quite the Republic just yet. Not while Mr. I-have-terrible-anger-management-issues is still stomping around!


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The grounds of the school contain four main areas: the Foundation Stage environment, Key Stage One playground, Key Stage Two playground and a much- loved wildlife garden and wildlife area.
At Boxgroe Primary School it is our aim to offer each child a broad and balanced curriculum. Our curriculum is therefore creative and based on skills we believe our children will need in the future. We have high expectations for every pupil's achievement and consistently encourage children to produce learning of a high standard.


Here's some good footage, as you can see currently adds very little to the flow of the Barron. only 25% of the Barron's catchment is above lake Tinaroo.
Looks like some more fast moving showers on the way.
Great footage there RF. Thanks for sharing the link. Will take a drive out there today or tomorrow.
Has been a bit wet here. 91mm so far. Would be great to get the allusive 100 before 9am but do not think its possible.
Just on the earth nullschool page.
Looks to be a little low just off the coast on the monsoon trough , that could change things fairly quickly.
The Mareeba Barron river height is still not reporting properly. How does the device work? Is it like a float sliding up and down pole?
Looks like is gets stuck at a certain point but slowly loosens whatever is stopping it each time the river goes up. You can see each time it goes up it can move a little higher before it gets stuck.
Anyways I am sure the council are fully aware and have reported the fault.
Another 67mm down here overnight.
I will have to try and get down to the Ville Wednesday/Thursday to help clean up the Old Fellas place. He was lucky, just outside the flood zone, but still had a lot of water through his garage and bottom rooms. He said this morning he could hear the river raging. Not far from Blacks Weir.
The low out near Isa looks to have moved North overnight.
Sun is shinig at the moment. A week or 2 of dry weather would be nice now.
Does anyone know what the wettest 7 day period around Cairns is? Has it ever been as wet as some of areas around Townsville have been?
Just broke my highest DP record again with 27.5c. No wonder I was sweating so much. DP been hovering around 27c all day and zero wind since 11:30am too. Yuk!!
Just a few sprinkles, thunder and passed now, and all is plugged in again so can read the evening by.. electric light!
Reckon they can keep that record for a while Pac, Imagine all that coming down over the Cairns catchment area on a High tide ?
looks like that low has moved north east a tad to just over Canobie in the Gulf country at the moment, wonder where it will end up, off the coast or ??? .
Thanks for that Pac. Townsville definitley has us beat for the short term totals. Hopefully our region does not beat any of those records while I am here. Hahaha.
3.8mm today. Hopefully things can start to dry out a little before that low starts to head towards us.
Another 48mm overnight, monthly total skipping along at 490mm. Wouldn't know it has rained this morning, absolutely stunning walk along the beach.
But yes, we're clearing up, ripping out dead veggies, even planting seeds (what a hope!) and pruning the pink bauhinia in the atrium, seems we don't need total shade after all, it sure surged ahead with wet feet.
MJO watchers, when are we due for our next burst of monsoonal activity?
No MJO for us till mid March by the looks of things.
The DP has come up 8° and the RH has increased 30% in the last 45 mins.
Another Hot one here today marking 4th day @ 39'c with 39.6'c.
I'm just in awe at this weather, extreme heat followed by prolonged rain and back to extreme heat again. I've never seen anything like this in Cairns before and neither have my Grands who were born here too.
This round of heat has been nice, not too hot, the nights are pleasant also. Last few nights you might even say cool, as we had to resort to getting under the sheets.
I'm not loving it, infact I'm totally pissed off. I'm on holiday and had all these things planned - sewing, hiking, riding, and I can't even motivate myself to move further than the fridge for another cold drink. Grrrr. 38 already.
Cant believe the whinging …..glorious days, lovely nights..not having to slop around in mud..just have to make like a Mexican and get the bulk of stuff done in the mornings and late afternoon....nice siesta or watch a movie in the middle of the day....couldn't ask for better in the middle of the Monsoon...!...like pacman mentions though, it has been an odd month so far..
Those cells popped up quick!!
EDIT: It also made the DP plunge from 23.5 to 16c.
Lucky you Simmo haha. Gotta say, im looking forward to a little south easterly breeze tomoz. Hope it comes off, today was insane.
This morning the breeze was like a sauna.
Lovely big white clouds to the east and northish.
This is the hottest part of the day, can only look forward to cooler.
Last two nights were around 28 degrees, reasonably warmish.
The pumpkin vine is looking sad, after tearing down the block in the rain and cloudy weather.
One would think that if the thunderstorm cells were not going to reach one they could at least obscure the sun!
Noice From 37 to 26 in half an hour and 16 mm of rain in about the same space of time. was coming in horizontal with the storm front so probably missed a bit there.
Sunny and hot again though RF.
Sitting here listening to the distant rumbles. Knew there would be storms about even though the forecast did not mention them, it just had that feel, and the look pretty decent too.
The wind is in a battle as to which direction it will come from. It is west then east then north then west again and everything in between, basically leaving it dead calm most the time.
Prompted me to check the radar. Nice blob to the south of us. Is it moving due north???
Fingers crossed, everything crossed. I want to see my plants happy again.
Had a storm skirt past here, was heaven! Blew all the hot air out of the house and the temp dropped by 8 degrees in 20 minutes. It's about 30 now and it feels so good Happy me can do some sewing!
Ps - sorry for my part in the whinging...I'm really not built for that kind of heat!
Radar has it *almost* upon us.
Looks good for you C@28.
Just reading on weatherzone that Kauai in Hawaii received 1262mm in 24 hours during April last year. Insane!!! I can not fathom that amount of rain.
Zoomed right in with Layers, it looks like the larger part went to your east and the rest just to the west.
How unlucky can you be ?
It has just started to rain. Sounds good. Frog just started croaking...he's happy. Neighbour's cat has disappeared, he gets terrified. Usually comes inside.
Three guinea fowl sheltering under my young lemon tree. And I can't hear the rain any more. It's a whiteout though. Weird.
Nice and cooler now, a while for the house to catch up though.
Just home and the good ole Davis reports another stinker of a day with a max 41.3'c and currently 37.7c.
Geez, that's hot for Cairns Pacman.
Doesn't take long to dry the ground out in the north.
I think the rain has stopped properly. Better go look at the gauge.
Well that's 3mm better than we did on the coast. 3mm is 3mm,-every little bit adds up.
I think Marakai may have got a few more mm out of it.
Yes, definitely better than nothing, and 10 degrees cooler, even the house is cool again now. Everything is fresh. The pumpkin vine has revived.
Didn't marakai say something about horizontal rain?
Has that storm feel again today. A lot more so than yesterday it feels like it could dump at any moment. Also some serious haze out there.
Not a cloud in the sky - it's a complete whiteout of haze.
Not a scrap of blue anywhere.
Haven't seen it like this here before.
Temperature's dropped from 38 at 2.15pm to just over 32 degrees 3.30pm.
Cool breeze is very nice.
Big puffy clouds all around us, still strangely overlaid with white haze, as are the bits of blue sky overlaid also.
Don't know whether you can see if very well, but here's a couple photos.
Beautifull day! We drove from home out to Wondecla to see a horse. My first time to Atherton and beyond - sure is beautiful up that way Stopped at Mt Hypipamee to look at the crater on the way home, very impressive.
Enjoying the cooler temp today greatly.
Do you have a Nylex pro for accurate records, or only the WS, Simmo ??
3mm from two small cells that passed over us.
What the hell happened to the monsoon...?..is the rest of the month going to be like this..?...I cant remember too many Februaries where the lawn grass turns brown...!
How often does the coast get 40 degrees? I thought it was more like 32-37ish.
The radar should not be devoid of rain, and the pressure map should be full of lows for the SW Pacific region -- shouldn't it???
Short memory old fella? 2016 we only had 130mm in January and 150 in February.
We're not doing too badly out here, considering.
Better January results, and already reached February totals and only half way through the month.
Hoping for another 3mm this afternoon.
2016 was the end of a 5 year well below average rainfall period for us.. 150mm for feb that year..!.this place just never ceases to amaze me....Damn...who would want to be a BOM weather forecaster..?
...this place just never ceases to amaze me....Damn...who would want to be a BOM weather forecaster..?
Wooeee we just had a nice little storm. Bit blowy, gorgeous storm light, but no thunder/lightning. Blew the lid of a compost bin, not that it was on very well.
11mm.....which is much better than 3mm.
20mm out of that blob that came through a couple of hours back. I was starting to think I would have to water the garden this week!
I'm still wondering if I should go out and get wet in the rain and water my plants, since even yesterday's 11mm didn't get them comfortably through today. And it was only about 34 degrees.
You got any humus in that soil of yours out there C28 ? If not get some horse dung into your garden beds or some cow dung with a bit of dolomite mixed in as well, that will help your soil hold some moisture.
Thank you marakai. I'm not a gardenr, it's all potting mix. Not that there's any soil out here shot of using a jackhammer.
11mm in yesterday afternoon's rain.
24 °C and 84% humidity.
As marakai said c@28. Sounds like you need to build your soil up. When you plants are wilting dig down in the soil a little to see if it is damp. A lot of vegetable plants like pumpkins will naturally wilt in full sun during summer. I have made the mistake before of thinking that if my plants are wilting they need water. Killed some from over watering.
Off to Adelaide for 2 weeks now. Looking forward to no humidity for a little while though in 2 weeks time my skin will look like a snake ready to shed.
Hi cold@28, if you're soil is all potting mix, then if it's gone dry at any stage, it can be really difficult to rewet. I would suggest putting some soil wetting agent on the soil which should help the water penetrate the mix.
Years ago, I dunked some pots which contained very dry potting mix in them in a bucket of water & all the potting mix came floating out of the pots. I repeated the exercise with some Wettasoil in the water and all the mix got soaked through. Until then I didn't believe in soil wetting agents.
You can get the wetting agents either in liquid form or granular form. Hope this helps.
We could sure do with some!
Another 10mm late yesterday afternoon.
Might have to think about that Simmo, thanks.
Sure is dry here Werner. Always a shock when I come from FNQ to SA at this time of year. Is pretty chilly here though. Glad I bought my trackies and hoodie.
Had to water my food plot.
Yeck...found a dead cane toad in the ground level part of the birdbath. Second dead cane toad in 3 weeks. Hope it continues.
9mm from a late night storm.
Overcast, muggy, not a day for doing the laundry.
geez that was an intense little cell that just went through. Branches down in White Rock.
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my rain gauge is a 5 liter bucket, it is half full, so how many mm?
I know it's NOT 2.5 litres.
Nice stormy arvo which wasn't in yesterdays forecast for today.
Just home and there is 20mm in the gauge and a Big tree missing from the forest next door... 60kmhr gust recorded on the WX and alot of leaves and branches down.
Cannon park recorded an 80kmhr gust from that storm also.
Wow, that weather sounds amazing.
Now it's just about time for me to go out and water the plants.
Can't complain at 2mm and huge drop in temperature. By 2pm today partner and I were feeling distinctly unwell - not weather for oldies w/o a/c but we manage...somehow.
Toss up between whether it's green and I pay for mowing too often, or bleak beige and no expenses. It's a sticky wade thru the paspalum on the way to the rain gauge, which thankfully sometimes has something in it, and makes it worthwhile.
Seeing a bit of lightning in those clouds now.
Bit coming up from the south in a few minutes, hopefully we'll get at least 5mm, but hope for more.
Looks like yours is on the way C@28, we had some ripper lightning this arvo, over 25mm in the gauge over an hour or so and round two on the way at the moment.
Came home to 42mm in the guage. I was watching the radar from CBD and could see the nice blob of yellow/red hit the beaches. Know doubt would have been more a bit further north. Would love to know how Port Douglas fared with the big blob that went their way.
I think we're only getting the white bits of that blob.
Edit: Now we're getting a bit of the blue, nice.
Nearly 2.5 hrs without power this arvo as lighting knocked out power in this vicinity.
Just looking outside when it hit,- I thought a bomb went off. Rattled the joint a bit.
Reckon we'll be lucky if we got 3mm from tonight. Two very brief showers. That's it.
We had some real sphincter squeezing moments here with a few very close strikes right over us, the light and ripping sound were near instantaneous.
We just had a total anti-climax Don't think I'll even bother checking the gauge tomorrow.
Getting those crazy westerly's rolling down the hill again!
Surprisingly, we got 10mm in the two brief showers we caught.
Just drove in to Bentley park. Car temp 35c at gvale, up to 36c begind a sunbus then dropped to 32c around Wrights creek, back to 34c at Bentley. Its fairly toasty for after 7pm.
I was at work in Port, nothing but rain. Pretty lame really. Great temperature drop though.
Can only imagine this will fuel tomorrows high temp to reach 38c early at airport. Suburbs might even break 40c again for the second time this month.
The temp is never too much of a problem on the beaches, it's the hot westerlies I can do without.
A nice 15kt Sth Easterly is the go. Straight in through the back sliding door and windows, and out the front ones. May be back to S.E. flow by Fri arvo.
Did any one else in Cairns get those sudden strong gusts? I woke up to pool full of leaves.
Gusty here now but not too bad in the night. Didn't drop below 33 inside or out last night, I got up and opened the front and back doors to at least get the air moving, then had a 2am shower to cool off abit, helped me get back to sleep.
Wish my house was all Feng Shui and all so it can let the breezes through, unfortunately the developer didn't have the elements mind with most homes here blocking the SE breeze, capturing the westerlies and becoming heat boxes which need aircon to cope with the conditions... bring back the old Qlder design!!
42.3 here in the valley, stinker of a day. i don't think it got below 31 last night.
Heading for hottest Feb max on record for Cairns AP - just equaled 1969 record...edit - just hit 39.2...a new record! Hot!
Only 35.5 degrees and 48% humidity.
A few small clouds, and a slight haze in the distance.
Last night around midnight it was 28, so not that hot.
Well its certainly a lovely afternoon on the Cassowary coast as well..
Thank God for that Sth Easterly. Might be tolerable this evening.
Now the record is 39.4° at 15:46h.
Do I hear any bids for 39.5° ??
I saw it hit 40.8 at one stage during the afternoon. Funny thing is, even how hot it is, the area out the back still has that wet creek (mud) smell to it, and it is still quite wet on the surface.
My house is wide open in a bid to dry and stop the spread of mold, taking advantage of this opportunity.
This Season has to be the craziest I've ever seen which almost loses its 'wow-factor' when seeing the temps so high, so often.
Geez, y'all better escape to Chillagoe, didn't get past 35.5 degrees. 25-28 makes comfortable nights.
I'm happy to leave the desert existence all to you Cold@.
I love it here but I really really really miss having rain.
Don't think I've ever complained about Chillagoe itself, just the lack of rain since Yasi. This has been a good wet season so far.
Finding it strange, though, that our daytime temps are well below the coast.
A brief SE breeze this morning between about 0530-0600 knocked the highest AP min on the head.
oops..my bad...Where did you find that Ron...?
The temperature has dropped to 25c now...what a relief..
Yep. The green is so vivid it just about hurts your eyes... Have to mow it though.
Good to see a few fluffy clouds about. Some wetter signals forming for the start of next month- ex Oma?
I must say, one good thing about this last round of heat,is that it has knocked the Mozzie population around, same for the sand flies.
There was stacks of them around not long after the last lot of rain.
Nice day today but the SE breezes and showers are forecast to pick up during next week...must be the remnants of Oma coming to visit, is it...?..A bit of rain and stormage will be most welcome after this hell week..
Amazing, cool and wet..60mm in gauge.
Couple of pics from the samsung at the Barron mouth this morning, looked way better in person. few flashes in there too.
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