Given the recent spate of weather events across the globe, how are our Jaguar friends in the USA and Australia doing? Fires, floods and very high winds cannot be fun. Even we in the UK are having our concerns!

 

Thank you. My Xj-6 and S type are well and protected from the weather, although rebuilt engine for the '65 S type is still to be assembled. Found a technician but due to Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year festivities nothing gets done. I hope this year it might happen.

 

Nix is all jacked up safely in the shop out of the weather since early November awaiting her new engine, but as Jose mentions, all the holiday foolishness has seriously got in the way of any real progress.

Add to that husband's new hobby of breaking in new doctors (looking for one that will tell him what he wants to hear instead of how it really is), and it's probably a good thing the weather is so nasty I can't work. Otherwise I would be hard put to keep up with the schedule he lays out for me.
(';')

 

Like Elinor, my S3 is in the garage on jack-stands enduring post-rebuild issues. I'm on high ground, no problem with flooding, etc. Our weather up here is nearly normal, nothing like the pounding in the "Lower Forty-Eight".

Dave

 

We get a day of sunshine and light winds. a break from te igh winds and purig rain.

My Car is safe. Pulled out in te drivr p get a wash by mother nature. sure looks good weet. No leaks to concern. But, a good sized one. No start. battery down, possibly more. On the charger, as I type.

tommorrow, back to the new ?norm?. High winds and a lot more rain. I am a bit inslnd and we are somewhat protected by the Oakland hills, but, not completely. Lottsa flooded streests and downed trees. One of mine included!



Sunday football play off forty niers vs seahawks threatened by very bad weather.

 

Australia is a mixed bag atm. Heat waves coming across the lower half of the continent and monsoon in the northern half which has cause historically significant, IOW it's never been this bad in 235 years of European settlement, flooding. The eastern seaboard is rapidly drying up, after consecutive huge flood events, causing bushfire concerns and the north western part of NSW and parts of SA are flooding as well. Tasmania is about to have a week of record high temps which would make UK heatwaves look like an icy blast. To put it bluntly its all fund and games, beer and skittles, milk and honey, here in the land down under. Thanks for asking.

 

Pretty normal actually. 100+ years ago a young lady named Dorothea McKellar wrote a poem called "My Country" She had returned to England and was homesick for her new country. The poem used to be taught in schools but these days its doesnt support "the message"

The must commonly quoted and best remembered verse goes as follows: l

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

We have always been a land of droughts (with attendant bushfires) and flooding rains. This time of year we usually have tropical cyclones (or very strong lows) in the north and dry weather in the north (the opposite of the US) In recent decades (like the US again) cyclones have been reducing in frequency and intensity Tropical Cyclone Trends Our bureau of meteorology hasnt updated the graph for a few years as the cyclone trend has gone embarrassingly off the alarmist script. The current narrative is "the big one is coming" which of course it always is and is a known fact of life for those living in the tropics

None of the events we have had in recent times is "unprecedented " If you can be bothered with history there are far more extreme events on the record in the past. Not say it cant happen but claiming recent events are somehow wildly unusual is just not realistic. None of that is a comfort if its your turn in the gun though, my own area was devastated by bushfires in 2009. They will come again, sooner if we become complacent and population keeps growing. Last year we had mild flooding (3 years of La Nina) and now things are as green and lush as we have seen them.

What has changed is a world wide news network that allows you to instantly aware of events anywhere, also hyperbole driven clickbait laden media that want and needs to sensationalize everything and also a whole class of so called journalists who have been indoctrinated since primary school that the sky is falling. They see everything through doomster glasses and seek to confirm their beliefs instead of dealing with facts and putting them in context.

The benign world that always has Goldilocks weather does not exist. We are always challenged by the weather and the ever changing climate.



y,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!

 

Eight BILLION and counting. The Earth has it's limits.

Dave

 

I'm in south central Texas. Its 73o and January 16th. No worries. My '78 XJ6L went into the shop late last week so they can R&R leaking rear calipers and the 4 struts and the trailing arm bushes while apart. If it weren't for that fix, I'd be driving it, again, today.
Do NOT believe the "bad news media" who love to sensationalize weather events that are so localized. Heck, California in particular was DESPERATE and praying for rain. Answered!

 

If you didn't have Metalastic bushings installed there, you'll be doing it again in about 3 years.
I can tell you how I know that.
I have resisted reminding people of that, Oh, you have no idea how hard I have worked to resist reminding them.
(';')

 

The bushes are URO brand and in their description they are "High-quality heat-resistant elastomer and metal materials". Thanks.

 

Agree Dave, but the reality is that the so called population bomb is cresting and we will soon be looking at a slow decline. The West is already in it, as is Japan, and China had its first population decline for many years (result of the 1 child policy, from which they may not recover for many decades) Depends what happens is Africa really.

 

I'll respect your opinion, Steve, but the view I have of the Earths ability to provide for it's inhabitants is still valid. Even if the world population is cresting (I understand China's self-made situation), our current use of the non-renewable resources and over use of some very important renewable resources, further reduces the Earths limits. We have just recently risen to the 8 billion mark and recovery in some areas, added to the overall upward trend, will tax those recourse limits at an increased rate.

You can probably tell that I have a higher opinion of the flora and fauna than of we humans, but I don't have a pro-active solution. That's only one reason why I'm not a Politician.

Dave

 

I usually avoid discussions like this because my views are not popular.

There are sayings in various parts of the world from "native" peoples that basically say if we humans disappeared life would continue but if life in the air or water or in the earth or above ground (apart from humans) disappeared then live on earth would disappear. Our planet has the ability to heal itself and has done so many times but it must be given the opportunity to do so. If we keep going how we are it will tip over the balance.

California is an interesting example many people on both sides use to support their pov. The Pacific ocean is a wonderful piece of hyrdrology. The naughty boy El Nino and his angelic little sister La Nina are 1 part of the equation. When Eastern Australia is in La Nina pacific US should be as well, When Pacific US is in El Nino Eastern Australia should be as well. Australia has been in La Nina for 3 years yet Pacific US has been in severe drought. This alone should indicate there is a problem.

 

Why? its happened before. Its not typical but , again, not unprecedented.

Dont fall into the trap of "ive never seen it before" our lifespans are a flyspeck on the timeline.

Right now there are a couple of long term cycles lining up that will drive us into a cooler climate trend. This trend is already established but the climate alarmists and the ever supportive (if it means clicks and views ) MSM will latch onto any event that supports the doomsters narrative.

Suprised the mods havent kicked this thread over to off topic, it really doesnt belong here. In the spirit of not starting another US Politics debacle around this polarising issues, I will shut up now.

 

I agree, politics and religion are on my "never debate" list.

Dave

 

Not with human manufactured pollutants in the atmosphere.

Yep that's why I rely on archaeological evidence from things like core samples that go back a very very very long time.

Statistically we should be in a mini ice age right now, we aren't though. The Viking era started at the beginning of a thaw and that thaw should have ended a long time ago with a short stabilisation and then another chilling event. Instead we have been through the industrial revolution and we have not had a statistically relevant chilling event.

You are correct about cycles, the thing is you can set your watch by them and we are beyond very late now. I'm not an alarmist but I'm not a bystander and a "she'll be right mate" proclaimer either. MSM is for news junkies, I've studied archaeology and have seen environmental samples I've done due diligence and sifted through hysteria and read verifiable, with evidence, information.

Why would it be US Politics? This is a global issue. That's the problem with these types of discussions people go off on tangents that are not part of the real discussion.

If people are pulling out of the discussion I will as well. If it gets moved to a general non automotive section I might rejoin.

 

I was expressing a wish that all our contributors were surviving well, not an attempt to get a climate debate going!!! Alec G.

 

Mini ice age, indeed.

Yesterday, Thursday, 1-19. Sunny and bright. Snow on nearby mountain!

Today, 1-21. computer says 37F

I isolated one room to heat. I will stay in it for most of the day. Later, heat another and move there.

Needed Jaguar and Jeep tasks on hold.

Weather guy says next week will be warmer. he says temperatures are below average.

Mini ice age?

I do heat far better than cold.

Seems so.

Carl