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***Official*** West Indies tour of Australia, Jan–Feb 2024

Skipper Pup

Skipper Pup

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Burgey said:
Oh, sure. My apologies.

Firstly, it's inhabited by Qlders who are very backward. I know people may think I'm saying that in jest, but I'm actually not. There's the odd good one, but really, they're mostly that Alabama Man action figure from South Park come to life in an antipodean setting. They're so parochial it's embarrassing. I remember Wally Lewis reading the news one time when I was up there, and Wimbledon was on. So he's like "Qld's Sam Stosur has won through to blah blah blah", then she lost the next round and he's "Australia's Samantha Stosur has been bundled out..."

The whole location of Brisbane is ****ing awful. And this also goes to the stupidity of Qlders. The State has thousands of kms of pristine beaches, but they built their capital city slightly inland on a sh!t-coloured disgrace of a river which is prone to flooding. They realized the error of their ways, albeit about 150 years late (they're slow) and built a fake beach on the southern bank of the river to try (and fail) to make it appealing.

The restaurants, hotels, pubs and bars are truly woeful. It's 1967 everywhere you look up there in hospo.

Nothing happens there outside of rugby league. Nothing wrong with rugby league, of course, but it's genuinely otherwise a sporting and artistic wasteland.

Lastly, all Brisbane serves as is the gateway to everything else in Qld. That should be its tourism catch phrase - "Brisbane - Boring as Bat **** But You Can Hire a Car and Go Elsewhere." There's just nothing attractive there at all. Nobody wants to stay there - I'll wager it has the highest ratio of day tripping Australian business travelers, because the only good thing there is the Qantas lounge in departures.
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After reading this I now want to hear your thoughts on Mt Isa :laugh:
 
Burgey

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Largest city in the world in terms of area unless I’m mistaken.

I went to Mt Isa for a mining worker case once and the local solicitor offered to take us for some bush bashing. Never been there before, but you know, out of town into the surrounding outback/ desert.

And we come over a blind sort of hill/ rise and coming the other way going absolutely balls to the wall is a full on redneck mobile 4wd Ute - spotlights, elevated suspension, gun racks, the works. And hanging onto the bull bar in De Caprio-in-Titanic-style, is a local red neck with a giant Akubra on his head howling like a mad man as the Ute he was hanging onto got airborne.

Redneck wonderland. Horrible, horrible joint
 
morgieb

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Qlder said:
Rain not forecast until Sat morning, clearing in afternoon. As game doesn't start until 2 pm shouldn't be a problem for first 3 days. That should be enough
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BOM forecast basically has it raining non-stop from Friday night onwards. Of course that could change.

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Spark

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morgieb said:
BOM forecast basically has it raining non-stop from Friday night onwards. Of course that could change.

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That forecast is basically based on where the cyclone goes after it makes landfall and as a counterpoint to my doomer post earlier, this is what the GFS ensemble of plausible tracks for the cyclone to take over the next week and a half:



Basically "landfall somewhere in central QLD and then lmao who knows v0v". Could rain non-stop from about Friday evening onwards, could have barely anything (though my understanding is that the remnant low doesn't have to pass overhead to still dump a **** ton of rain on SE QLD because of the outflow)
 
Starfighter

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Spark said:
Didn't say it was common tbf. But the wet bulb temp has to be into the thirties which no joke would be lethal heatwave territory if it lasted any decent length of time. IIRC the mid-00s heatwave in Europe had wet bulb temps which were 28-29 at most and that killed tens of thousands of people, granted people there all live in ovens.
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Dew point is the main measure these days while wet bulb is pretty much never reported, so I look at that (but FYI w.b. would be 28.1). My only point is that people tend to exaggerate relative humidity. Like you see people from Florida talking about it being '100°F with 90% humidity' etc. I think it doesn't sound impressive to the layman to say 'it's 35 with 60% humidity' even though any weather knowledgeable person knows that's seriously awful.
 
Spark

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Starfighter said:
Dew point is the main measure these days while wet bulb is pretty much never reported, so I look at that (but FYI w.b. would be 28.1). My only point is that people tend to exaggerate relative humidity. Like you see people from Florida talking about it being '100°F with 90% humidity' etc. I think it doesn't sound impressive to the layman to say 'it's 35 with 60% humidity' even though any weather knowledgeable person knows that's seriously awful.
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Oh I was taking social's post at face value, I didn't bother to actually check the observations. 35C at 90% RH really is very close to outright uninhabitable if persisting over any extended period of time. Obviously yeah most people don't have a working knowledge of thermodynamics and don't realise that the RH figure implies very different things depending on the temperature, which is why apparent temperature should be reported much more prominently especially as we move into an era of more and more humid summers on the east coast in decades to come.

People in Florida have no real conception of what true tropical heat is like tbh, which is to be expected from Midwestern retirees tbf. Florida heat is nothing compared to, say, SE Asia even in the "cool" months. Let alone places like Saudi.
 
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Spark said:
That forecast is basically based on where the cyclone goes after it makes landfall and as a counterpoint to my doomer post earlier, this is what the GFS ensemble of plausible tracks for the cyclone to take over the next week and a half:



Basically "landfall somewhere in central QLD and then lmao who knows v0v". Could rain non-stop from about Friday evening onwards, could have barely anything (though my understanding is that the remnant low doesn't have to pass overhead to still dump a **** ton of rain on SE QLD because of the outflow)
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It’s all guesswork atm

Wasn’t supposed to rain much in SEQ today but is currently pelting down in the hinterland
 
social

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Spark said:
Oh I was taking social's post at face value, I didn't bother to actually check the observations. 35C at 90% RH really is very close to outright uninhabitable if persisting over any extended period of time. Obviously yeah most people don't have a working knowledge of thermodynamics and don't realise that the RH figure implies very different things depending on the temperature, which is why apparent temperature should be reported much more prominently especially as we move into an era of more and more humid summers on the east coast in decades to come.

People in Florida have no real conception of what true tropical heat is like tbh, which is to be expected from Midwestern retirees tbf. Florida heat is nothing compared to, say, SE Asia even in the "cool" months. Let alone places like Saudi.
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Dubai is 40+ for 5-6 months per year but pretty manageable as the joint is set up for people to avoid the heat as much as practicable

Only insane people (or Russians & Poms) lie on the beach or play golf in the middle of the day during summer

It’s generally a dry heat as well and far less oppressive than parts of Asia
 
Nintendo

Nintendo

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I'm surprised Sutherland hasn't stuck his way into the ODI squad. One of the leading wicket takers in the list A stuff this season after featuring for AUS-A earlier in the year, and he's had two good allround bbl seasons in a row (2022/23 210 runs @30 and a Sr of 150, 7 wickets @ 53 and an econ of 8, 23/34 112 runs @23 and a Sr of 165, 7 wickets @ 28 and an econ of 8) + on and off shield form (gun last year, poor this year bar one game he got motm in)
 
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