{"id":2480,"date":"2025-11-02T13:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2025-11-02T16:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:56:31","slug":"the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/?p=2480","title":{"rendered":"The Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A cold front and associated trough. That means rain is imminent, probably tomorrow, on the first day of my tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My pre-booked campsite at Mamanga has already been cancelled by NPWS; pre-empting flooding, mitigating risks. The forecast is for &#8220;4-15mm&#8221;; so it\u2019s not a deluge but enough to put a dampener on things. I\u2019ll be on a wet pitch; a green top. Patience, son. Keep your eye on the ball. Play it under your nose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"995\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3258.jpeg\" alt=\"Synoptic Chart 2 Nov 2025\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-3-border-color wp-image-2482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3258.jpeg 995w, https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3258-300x232.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3258-768x594.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3258-600x464.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 995px) 100vw, 995px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first ball of a five match Test Series sets the tone for the 25 days of cricket that will follow. Steve Harmison knows about that. I am excited to hold a ticket to see the first ball on the first day of the first test in this year&#8217;s Ashes series, in Perth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, as I prepare for my personal test of endurance, navigation and Temu-bushman skills, I contemplate how tomorrow, the first day, will set the tone of my 50 day trek across this nation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cold front and associated trough. That means rain is imminent, probably tomorrow, on the first day of my tour. My pre-booked campsite at Mamanga has already been cancelled by NPWS; pre-empting flooding, mitigating risks. The forecast is for &#8220;4-15mm&#8221;; so it\u2019s not a deluge but enough to put a dampener on things. I\u2019ll be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}