Summer 15 -- enter the el niño
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Re: Summer 15 -- enter the el niño
yeah had a good look at the charts and bom just now. you could make an argument either way right now. i'm still leaning towards el nino at some point through jan/feb '15 ... but that's just a hunch with not much to back it up.
maybe the very immediate short term, Don looks to be closer to it all. There's a hint of drought busting rain for out west ... this by my limited reckoning would change the long term chances of any el nino, wouldn't it?
maybe the very immediate short term, Don looks to be closer to it all. There's a hint of drought busting rain for out west ... this by my limited reckoning would change the long term chances of any el nino, wouldn't it?
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el rancho wrote:there's a thing maybe gonna form. another bankbuster possibly.
I want some of whatever you guys are taking.that looks insane. Bit early to have full confidence but as long as it forms to the S the banks will be fine.
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Gee looking at the charts this week anything could happen weather and surf wise. It's the luck of the draw as to where she happens but.
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Yeah, you're all fcuking welcome.
Haven't had a decent surf since August and the week I fly out of the country the waves come back.
I'm not even a surfer these days, let alone a real one
Haven't had a decent surf since August and the week I fly out of the country the waves come back.
I'm not even a surfer these days, let alone a real one
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alakaboo wrote: I'm not even a surfer these days, let alone a real one
yeah, been feeling the same way. maybe its an age thing, but I just can't get motivated to surf small onshore pus, and driving for small semi clean pus doesn't appeal either.
the beginning of the end. maybe.
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Not sure I'd define the weekend (partic Sunday) just gone as pus!!!
Was a very respectable (for this time of year and considering the shit we've had for the last few mths) and punchy 3-4ft where I was.
Was a very respectable (for this time of year and considering the shit we've had for the last few mths) and punchy 3-4ft where I was.
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it was pus here
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So still no change of play for you Steve?
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my mangoes have gone off the hook.
stay tuned.
stay tuned.
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I'm pretty sure that would be due to the lovely rain we've been having feeding their roots!!!Braithy wrote:my mangoes have gone off the hook.
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yeah, humidity, temp, rain and not direct sun -- but shaded from clouds all make them go off. the complete and utter opposite of el niño ... in those 7 years of el niño drought, and i don't think we got one single mango.
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I have not watched their sign language with much attention, but I think my mango trees provide a weather report (and only a retrospective one) rather than a weather forecast.
My hypothesis was so far that when it rains too much during flowering, pollination fails and then -- no mangos. I might be totally wrong.
What do the fruit bats tell you?
Last year, they let me get my mangos! The previous 5 years I had to pick them green or loose out to the flying menace. The slightest sign of impending ripeness and they would be chewed on. I think I heard something about heat stress reducing the fruit bat numbers, but they were not reduced, they were just absent.
My hypothesis was so far that when it rains too much during flowering, pollination fails and then -- no mangos. I might be totally wrong.
What do the fruit bats tell you?
Last year, they let me get my mangos! The previous 5 years I had to pick them green or loose out to the flying menace. The slightest sign of impending ripeness and they would be chewed on. I think I heard something about heat stress reducing the fruit bat numbers, but they were not reduced, they were just absent.
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MrMik wrote:I have not watched their sign language with much attention, but I think my mango trees provide a weather report (and only a retrospective one) rather than a weather forecast.
My hypothesis was so far that when it rains too much during flowering, pollination fails and then -- no mangos. I might be totally wrong.
What do the fruit bats tell you?
Ah I dunno about bats mate.
there's an old guy I use to know at tugun (he died a few years back), he owned a few trawlers ... he use to take his trawlers on surf trips up the barrier reef and continental shelf. there was nothing about qld weather and ocean he didn't know. he was good friends with danny will's old man, and use to take all that crew surfing all the time.
he swore something about when his mango trees go off in december it meant a land crossing cyclone was a certainty that season. the more mangoes, the bigger the storm.
a coupla years that big cyclone that flooded and tore up the goldy ... that was a bumper mango crop, so it must be true.
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Acres and acres of cornflake weed this morning. Braithy what does that mean?
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was it cornflake weed? sometimes humpback sperm litters our beaches and oceans, and it does a mighty fine impersonation of cornflake weed.
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If that was whale sperm then I'd hate to see the whale that ejaculated it!!!Braithy wrote:was it cornflake weed? sometimes humpback sperm litters our beaches and oceans, and it does a mighty fine impersonation of cornflake weed.
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yeah i know ... we call it whale sperm here. it washes out from the rivers and creeks and broadwater Donnie. The rain flushes it out.
currumbin creek in the dry spell had all kinds of weed and sea grass bed forming in it ... never seen it like that before (although I never paddled in it daily until this year).
so i'd imagine it all washed out from the rain we had. Coolie and tweed had over 200mm in 24 hours at the height of the trough passing.
currumbin creek in the dry spell had all kinds of weed and sea grass bed forming in it ... never seen it like that before (although I never paddled in it daily until this year).
so i'd imagine it all washed out from the rain we had. Coolie and tweed had over 200mm in 24 hours at the height of the trough passing.
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It looked like cornflakes to me....and weird part was that it was all inshore, dense/thick as all feck, so everytime you caught a wave from out the back, you'd land in the cornflakes......not a pleasant feeling.
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