Post by greysrigging on Nov 18, 2024 19:55:44 GMT -5
Yet another Taylor Sheridan production has dropped on Aussie TV... this one is called 'Landman' ( Billy Bob Thornton has the lead role ).
Set in the oilfields of the Permian Basin in west Texas... 2 eps in and its mildly entertaining... I worked on Rigs a lifetime ago, so sorta know what's going on...
lol.
Anyways, prompted me to make a climate battle between Midland, TX and an AU oil province called Moomba ( in South Australia ) I've travelled through ( never worked there ) the Moomba Basin... its harsh remote and desolate country barely fit for man or beast...
Which place do you prefer climatically ?
MIDLAND:
Climate:
Midland has a desert climate (Köppen BSh or BSk) with hot summers and cool to mild winters. It occasionally has cold waves during the winter, but rarely sees extended periods of below-freezing cold. Midland receives approximately 340 mm of precipitation per year, much of which falls in the summer. Highs exceed32 °C on 115 days per year and 38 °C on 24 days while lows fall to 0 °C or below on 58 days.
MOOMBA:
Notes:- some background on Moomba:
It's literally an oil and gas refinery town in the middle of nowhere in the hottest, driest, deadest part of the outback (the North Eastern corner of SA on the border with QLD. You'd be hard pressed to find a bleaker place on the whole continent.
This is what it looks like:
"I once spent quite a few days and nights there and I sincerely hope never to do so again. Might as well be on fuckin Mars or something. It's not open to the general public - only SANTOS employees and contractors can get flown in there, since it's a company town. Not that anyone else should ever have any reason to want to go there. I won't go into too many details about what actually happened to me while I was there. Suffice it to say, it had an impact on me.
I feel like the general public would be surprised by what it's like out there. There are people, but they're all rough, weird men with a major chip on their shoulder who are running away from something back home. At the risk of sounding overly melodramatic, if you go there, what you find are the outermost fringes of humanity. And it's not a good time. You sleep in a shipping container. You eat prison food, and a fly net is a basic requirement for survival (in daytime for the flies, at night for the moths and other large beetles). No one is cheerful or helpful and not a soul really wants to be there. You can feel the dust and sand on your teeth at all times. People there will sense your weaknesses and enjoy attacking you for them. You sort of have to keep your wits about you and act tough. If you've ever seen the movie "Wake In Fright" it's something like that, but modernised - and the town is less of a place of residence and more of a joyless industrial shithole full of tents and warehouses and piles of equipment. The only sources of comfort or escape are those that you've managed to take with you. Except if you're into beer, cos there's plenty of that.
Getting to Innamincka from there is frankly a sweet relief. It might be just a pub and some cabins but at least it's something other than just metal and gas flares standing alone in the middle of the bare red desert. In Innamincka you might at least run into some cheery tourists or something. It somehow feels a lot more connected to the rest of humankind than Moomba does."
Climate:
Moomba experiences a mean maximum temperature of 38.6 °C in the hottest month of the year, January, with overnight mean minimum temperatures of 24.5 °C . July is the coldest month, in winter, with 19.6 °C mean maximum temperature and 6.4 °C mean minimum temperature. On 12 January 2013, Moomba reached a record maximum temperature of 49.6 °C , which is one of the hottest temperatures recorded in South Australia.
Moomba sits just on the edge of a rainfall region that has the lowest average rainfall in Australia (a region encompassing Marree and Lake Eyre). Rainfall is highly erratic, and some years it does not rain at all. However, when it does rain it can be extremely heavy and damaging thunderstorms can occur on a few days each year. Light winter rain can also be experienced, but this is just as infrequent and does not happen every year. The wettest month ever recorded was January 1974, with 439.4 millimetres of rain falling.
Set in the oilfields of the Permian Basin in west Texas... 2 eps in and its mildly entertaining... I worked on Rigs a lifetime ago, so sorta know what's going on...
lol.
Anyways, prompted me to make a climate battle between Midland, TX and an AU oil province called Moomba ( in South Australia ) I've travelled through ( never worked there ) the Moomba Basin... its harsh remote and desolate country barely fit for man or beast...
Which place do you prefer climatically ?
MIDLAND:
Climate:
Midland has a desert climate (Köppen BSh or BSk) with hot summers and cool to mild winters. It occasionally has cold waves during the winter, but rarely sees extended periods of below-freezing cold. Midland receives approximately 340 mm of precipitation per year, much of which falls in the summer. Highs exceed32 °C on 115 days per year and 38 °C on 24 days while lows fall to 0 °C or below on 58 days.
MOOMBA:
Notes:- some background on Moomba:
It's literally an oil and gas refinery town in the middle of nowhere in the hottest, driest, deadest part of the outback (the North Eastern corner of SA on the border with QLD. You'd be hard pressed to find a bleaker place on the whole continent.
This is what it looks like:
"I once spent quite a few days and nights there and I sincerely hope never to do so again. Might as well be on fuckin Mars or something. It's not open to the general public - only SANTOS employees and contractors can get flown in there, since it's a company town. Not that anyone else should ever have any reason to want to go there. I won't go into too many details about what actually happened to me while I was there. Suffice it to say, it had an impact on me.
I feel like the general public would be surprised by what it's like out there. There are people, but they're all rough, weird men with a major chip on their shoulder who are running away from something back home. At the risk of sounding overly melodramatic, if you go there, what you find are the outermost fringes of humanity. And it's not a good time. You sleep in a shipping container. You eat prison food, and a fly net is a basic requirement for survival (in daytime for the flies, at night for the moths and other large beetles). No one is cheerful or helpful and not a soul really wants to be there. You can feel the dust and sand on your teeth at all times. People there will sense your weaknesses and enjoy attacking you for them. You sort of have to keep your wits about you and act tough. If you've ever seen the movie "Wake In Fright" it's something like that, but modernised - and the town is less of a place of residence and more of a joyless industrial shithole full of tents and warehouses and piles of equipment. The only sources of comfort or escape are those that you've managed to take with you. Except if you're into beer, cos there's plenty of that.
Getting to Innamincka from there is frankly a sweet relief. It might be just a pub and some cabins but at least it's something other than just metal and gas flares standing alone in the middle of the bare red desert. In Innamincka you might at least run into some cheery tourists or something. It somehow feels a lot more connected to the rest of humankind than Moomba does."
Climate:
Moomba experiences a mean maximum temperature of 38.6 °C in the hottest month of the year, January, with overnight mean minimum temperatures of 24.5 °C . July is the coldest month, in winter, with 19.6 °C mean maximum temperature and 6.4 °C mean minimum temperature. On 12 January 2013, Moomba reached a record maximum temperature of 49.6 °C , which is one of the hottest temperatures recorded in South Australia.
Moomba sits just on the edge of a rainfall region that has the lowest average rainfall in Australia (a region encompassing Marree and Lake Eyre). Rainfall is highly erratic, and some years it does not rain at all. However, when it does rain it can be extremely heavy and damaging thunderstorms can occur on a few days each year. Light winter rain can also be experienced, but this is just as infrequent and does not happen every year. The wettest month ever recorded was January 1974, with 439.4 millimetres of rain falling.
Lived:
Residence: