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Cold, wet and windy here again. Been lots of snow up in the alpine areas.

Quite cold and more rain bands moving through this morning. There's been 50-100cm of snowfall in the last 24 hours up in the higher alpine areas.

Heavy rain at times today with storms and winds up to 130km/hr. Was pretty wild.

Did you notice if they are still using the plastic sheets on parts of the glacier to help reduce ablation Mike?

Very mild and sunny here today. Was the warmest May ever recorded here and so far June has also been very mild. Still virtually no natural snow at most of our ski resorts. Tomorrow though they are forecasting the first really decent cold front of the winter that should bring some good snowfalls to the alpine areas.

You want to use one like this

I'd use a grooved trowel for the mortar mix to lay the tiles on. Match the size of the grooves to the instructions on the mortar mix. You can get grouts for outdoors that work well. I'd suggest a flexible sanded grout and that you also use a grout sealer which will help stop discolouration of the grout. One of the main things to consider is that you'll more than likely have to cut some of the tiles Once you know the tile size you'll be using map out on a scale drawing, or lay them down to work how you want them fit. Generally it's best to arrange it to have the cut tiles butting up to the hou

Next to the house? It's just it probably has a slight lean on it currently to ensure water doesn't flow back to the house. Just keep this in mind when laying the tiles to keep that lean. Some people forget this and lay the tiles completely level not allowing to water to run off properly.

Is the area covered or exposed?

So Australia won the Hockey World Cup with a 6-1 win over the Netherlands! Damn site better than we'll do in wogball.

Not sure about all this football stuff but the Hockey World Cup has been very exciting!

Not if you're a climate science denier muika. For the deniers papers like The Guardian that don't outright attempt to deny and slander the science are part of the leftist pinko, greeny global hoax that's being played on us all. I'm not for a moment suggesting that that's rational but people who deny the science of climate change aren't usually all that rational.

Well for some anything that is not as extreme right as Murdoch publications is extreme left.

Because it's a leftist pinko publication that supports the global warming conspiracy of course!

NOAA recently released this The chance of El Niño is 70% during the Northern Hemisphere summer and reaches 80% during the fall and winter. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html That was an early June forecast. This may have recently been updated and may well be up at 90% now. It's not just the Guardian reporting the 90% figure.

From the research I've done on it generally most of Japan can expect warmer temps and slightly lower snowfall during an El Nino event. Hokkaido though is less effected and in fact the northern parts of Hokkaido usually have slightly lower temps than usual. This is for the winter period obviously. Summers are generally cooler across most of Japan during El Nino events. The following shows the effect on precipitation during Dec-Feb. Southern Japan generally has much lower precipitation whereas central and northern areas are not overly affected. The following shows the effect on te

When I came back to Australia there was talk of Hipsters. I had no idea what people were talking about. Still don't really.

My English is deteriorating now that I'm back in Australia. It was much better in Japan!

The best thing I did was go back to using a dumb phone. Even if I was so inclined to use social media a lot, I can't.

I have no idea who those people are!

Pippu?

I had one of these in my younger days. Hell of a lot of fun off-road.

That's unusually warm weather for Hokkaido this early in the summer season.

From my memory seasonal staff at Niseko would normally earn somewhere between ￥800-￥1200 per hour depending on their position and experience.