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Post by plane2catch on Nov 25, 2015 12:51:25 GMT
Just saw on the news the hugh bush fire that they said was near Adelaide, (Sp?). The Ariel shots were quite impressive. I remember when I visited Australia there where some fires outside of Sydney near the Blue Mountains.
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Post by Tonnet on Nov 25, 2015 22:35:52 GMT
Just saw on the news the hugh bush fire that they said was near Adelaide, (Sp?). The Ariel shots were quite impressive. I remember when I visited Australia there where some fires outside of Sydney near the Blue Mountains. This is a land of many contrasts, plane2catch. We are also experiencing huge bush fires in Western Australia and New South Wales is under extreme threat today. Melbourne is being blown away with wild wind storms and, by way of a change, Tasmania is receiving snow!
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Post by tassiedevil on Nov 25, 2015 23:39:56 GMT
Sorry to disappoint but no snow, just very windy. They predicted snow on Mt Wellington with it reaching a max temp of -1°C, it is currently 8°C at the summit.
We had bush fires earlier this week and last week, where the hills around where I live were ablaze.
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Post by plane2catch on Nov 26, 2015 2:56:33 GMT
Just saw on the news the hugh bush fire that they said was near Adelaide, (Sp?). The Ariel shots were quite impressive. I remember when I visited Australia there where some fires outside of Sydney near the Blue Mountains. This is a land of many contrasts, plane2catch. We are also experiencing huge bush fires in Western Australia and New South Wales is under extreme threat today. Melbourne is being blown away with wild wind storms and, by way of a change, Tasmania is receiving snow! Yes, Tonnet you do have a very beautiful diverse country. Got a chuckle over Chech posting a pic of the road from Ayers Rock leading to Perth. All it was is a dirt red path headed West or is that East for you folks down under?? Between the toilet bowels swirling in the opposite direction and crossing the international dateline while flying from my country to yours, I find it all quite fascinating.
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Post by tassiedevil on Nov 26, 2015 4:01:31 GMT
West is west no matter what hemisphere you are in. The hemisphere also has very little to do with which direction water will drain out a sink or which way a toilet bowl swirl, it is a common myth that water drains clockwise in one hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the other.
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Post by plane2catch on Nov 26, 2015 4:09:56 GMT
I think you meant counter clockwise vs. clockwise. Boy, I certainly have heard that myth more than once if in fact it is a myth. I heard it so much that I am skeptical. Maybe it all has to do with the mechanical design of a given toilet. Wonder if Oz has any takes on this issue?
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Post by Oz-T on Nov 26, 2015 4:15:39 GMT
.... Got a chuckle over Chech posting a pic of the road from Ayers Rock leading to Perth. All it was is a dirt red path headed West or is that East for you folks down under?? Between the toilet bowels swirling in the opposite direction and crossing the international dateline while flying from my country to yours, I find it all quite fascinating.
Yes, but Uluru is in the middle of nowhere, so the road heading west isn't going to be used much because there's nowhere much for it to go (unless somebody wants to head off into the desert on a dirt track to obscure places that aren't even towns or as some sort of dangerous shortcut). The main roads connecting east and west coasts of the continent are indeed major highways, made from bitumen, not dirt, and they go through better terrain than where that 'road' goes. And despite rumours and folklore to the contrary, our toilet bowls, sinks etc do not swirl in the opposite direction to the northern hemisphere. The coriolis effect does not operate that way. Toilet bowls are designed to swirl as much as possible to remove the err... contents effectively; the direction of the swirl being deliberately built into the bowl.
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Post by tassiedevil on Nov 26, 2015 4:26:06 GMT
Corrected my previous post with the 2 clockwise.
Like Oz said it is the manufacturer that decides which way a toilet will flush in the way it designs it not the coriolis effect (which does have a huge affect on cyclones/hurricanes).
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Post by Oz-T on Nov 26, 2015 4:27:51 GMT
West is west no matter what hemisphere you are in. The hemisphere also has very little to do with which direction water will drain out a sink or which way a toilet bowl swirl, it is a common myth that water drains clockwise in one hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the other. Absolutely correct. Still water in a receptacle will drain in a vortex in one particular direction and it won't change if you move that vessel to a different hemisphere and repeat the experiment. But the coriolis effect will play a part on a larger scale: Cyclones are affected by ocean and wind currents, plus the coriolis effect. They swirl in a clockwise direction in the southern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere. They call them hurricanes in the Americas and Typhoons in the South China Sea etc, but they are all cyclones.
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