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  1. Major thunderstorm outbreak to deliver much needed rain to Queensland and NSW - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU While even a 50mm soaking is unlikely to put out the larger blazes, the rain should assist in controlling the future spread of fires while also preventing new ones igniting. Good news. Bushfire has destroyed 70 homes in eastern Australia so far this spring with 4 fatalities - the most destructive fires so early in the season, since 2013. September-October has been the driest start to spring in Australia on record, edging out 2019 (there is a historical graph of this in the embedded story). October was another warm month but not as anomalously warm as September.
  2. BoM confirms Australia had its THIRD warmest September with a +2.4C temperature anomaly. For mean maximum temperature alone it was the SECOND warmest, just behind September 2013, with a +3.4C anomaly. The bigger statistic is how dry it is at the moment - the DRIEST September on record for Australia.
  3. Western Australia latest area to be impacted by significant spring heat in Australia. Perth max of 34.3C on Wednesday (+13C above average) breaks September heat record (records since 1897), numerous other places across a very wide area in that state, more monthly records likely to fall by the 30th in the west. Perth Highest September Daily Maximum 34.3C....Sep 27th 2023 34.2C....Sep 20th 2014 33.1C....Sep 9th 2019 32.7C....Sep 30th 1918 32.3C....Sep 18th 1988 ABC News article looks at the situation. September temperature records broken across WA amid unusual wave of scorching spring weather - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU September temperature records tumble across Western Australia today, including in Perth, as an unusual wave of scorching spring weather sets in over the state. By October 1, the heat makes it to the east, very hot again for New South Wales...inland near 40C, Sydney 35C. Intriguing worrisome developments at the beginning of the warming season; especially in light of current global events !
  4. Quite a pronounced September heatwave across central eastern Australia just gone...lasting 5 or 6 days between 15th/16th through to the 20th, maxima somewhere between 8-12C above average, but peaking higher than that in some spots. A number of all-time September heat records were broken, almost all of them in New South Wales, but the duration of days in a row exceeding 30C for September ( 5 or 6 ) was the standout. Certainly very unusual to see such elevated fire danger ratings at the very beginning of spring. Sydney had 5 days in a row over 30C ( a September record ) and the peak of 34.6C on the 20th was the equal highest September temperature (records since 1859 ). Sydney September average maximum is 20C. Sydney Highest September Maximum: 34.6C.....Sep 19th 2023 34.6C.....Sep 26th 1965 34.2C.....Sep 25th 1980 33.9C.....Sep 20th 2023 33.8C.....Sep 13th 2017 ............................................... Winter across Australia was the warmest on record. Never known of a winter in Tasmania to have no snow below 700m asl, like we've just experienced. We now enter what may be an extended period of dry weather or drought into summer, with El Nino and IOD climate drivers pointing that way.
  5. Adelaide - capital city of South Australia - recorded its third coldest July day on record yesterday, of 9.1c ( 7 below average ). Cold conditions there precedes a wintry weekend in south-east Australia with "low level" snow - widespread in Victoria and parts of New South Wales - with big falls in the Australia Alps. Not much snow in Tasmania this season ( Hobart's mountain is bare ) but plenty of time left for a turnaround! Adelaide - Lowest daily maximum temperature for July ( records since 1887 ) 8.8......1986.....8th 8.8......1931.....11th 9.1......2021.....22nd 9.6......1907.....8th 9.7......1984.....2nd
  6. June - Hobart, Tasmania This was the warmest June since 2002 with a mean anomaly of +1.0c above 1991-2020 or +1.3c above 1961-1990. Mean maximum: 13.4 ( +0.7 ) Mean minimum: 6.8 ( +1.3 ) Rainfall: 60mm ( average 54mm ) Rain days ( +1mm ) : 8/from total 15 Wet and persistently cloudy during the first half of the month, with moist onshore easterly winds off the Tasman Sea. Nights were very mild under banks of low cloud and areas of fog. Sunnier from the 20th, with colder nights through until the end of the month with high pressure centered near Tasmania. The two coldest days, on the 22nd and 23rd, were dry and overcast, as high cloud streamed down across the country from he north west tropics. On the night of the 28th, a couple of showers on a front from the west. This was the only rainfall after the 19th. The only mountain snow day this month was a light covering to 600m on the 4th, after a brief cold outbreak from the south west. Extremes in daily temperature for June ( records since 1882 ) High max: 18.1.....8th ( record 20.6 in 1907 ) Low max: 8.7.....22nd ( record 4.3 in 1985 ) High min: 12.6.....12th ( record 15.0 in 2016 ) Low min: 2.3.....21st,29th ( record -2.8 in 1972 )
  7. Just confirming it never got higher than 10.3c in Sydney on Thursday ( at the long-running Observation Hill site, near the harbor )-- making it indeed the second coldest June day on record there. The coldest day for any month was 7.7c in July 1868. Sydney - Lowest daily maximum temperature for June ( records since 1859 ) 9.7.......1899.....13th 10.3......2021....10th 10.4......1995....21st 10.6......1935....30th 10.7......1893....25th 10.7......1874....26th
  8. I snapped the image from Meteye on Thursday afternoon. It shows the low readings across New South Wales which has been at the center of the first decent cold outbreak of the winter. Widespread snow settled across towns as low as 800m in New South Wales. Such a snow event happens once every second winter or so, but some places would have fared better, especially for snow depth. Sydney's maximum of 10.3c ( 7 below average ) was the coldest June day since 1899 - and second coldest June day in 163 years of records but it may exceed that before 9am Friday.
  9. Thank you, spent several years living over there, regretfully never made it that far north. Tasmania's west would be quite comparable to your location temperature wise I suspect, except the winter season. Hobart ( in the south east ) is one of the warmer spots on the island. It's a shame we don't get 'proper' winters down here but Tasmania is quite mountainous; a few elevated settlements with the most basic services get winters with all day frost and occasional snow. My future dream is to move upward...
  10. May - Hobart, Tasmania Very dry. A mean temperature anomaly of +0.3c above 1991-2020 or +0.8c above 1961-90 period. Mean maximum: 15.7 ( +0.5 ) Mean minimum: 7.8 ( +0.1 ) Rainfall: 17mm ( average 47mm ) Rain days ( +1mm ) : 4/from total 9 A very dry end to autumn with high pressure dominating across southern Australia and pressure building quickly behind occasional fronts. The coldest days were mostly dry. There were brief windows for settled snow on the mountain behind the city but totals were low. A dusting to near 700m into the 15th, a light covering to 700m on the 17th and a more modest fall to near 600m into the 28th. The snow stuck around the summit ( near 1200m ) until the end of the month after the last fall, with low overnight temperatures. The wettest day in the city was 4mm into the 3rd, 17th and into the 28th. The Tasmania minimum this month was -7.0c Extremes in daily temperature for May ( records since 1882 ) : High max: 23.2.....1st ( record 25.7 in 1997 ) Low max: 10.6.....28th ( record 6.1 in 1921 ) High min: 13.4.....20th ( record 16.2 in 2005 ) Low min: 2.4.....31st ( record -1.6 in 1902 )
  11. Autumn 2021: Near average climate condition in Australia. Rainfall +3% from long-term average, mean temperature a shade above 1961-90. Autumn ended with chilled clear sky across the south-east, quite a number of record low May minima on May 30-31. BoM. Autumn mean temperature anomaly ( 1961-90 ) : +0.3c March: +0.2 April: +0.2 May: +0.5
  12. April - Hobart, Tasmania A very dry month with a mean temperature anomaly of +0.7c above 1991-2020 or +0.6c above 1961-1990. This month included the hottest April day on record ( 3rd ). Mean maximum: 18.5 ( +0.6 ) Mean minimum: 10.1 ( +0.7 ) Rainfall: 24mm ( average 50mm ) Rain days ( +1mm ) : 6/from total 11 Hot and sunny ( 1st-3rd ) with a central Australia air mass drawn south from strong high pressure over east Australia. The 2nd was temporarily cooler behind a weak dry front. Dry weather continued up to the 9th in a mild to warm westerly wind but then progressively colder in the days that followed, with successive fronts and lowering snowfalls. Snow settling 800m on the 11th. Less cold up to 19th but occasional fronts from the west bringing a shower or two. A dusting of snow to 1100m on the morning of the 16th. The 20th was a very cold day - the coldest April day since 1995 - behind a southerly front with a few showers. Snow settling 800m. A cold and clear night followed with frost away from the coast. The extreme minimum that night was -7.4c in central Tasmania. Only a couple of showers after this, then dry from the 22nd-30th as high pressure dominated across southern Australia. Extremes in daily temperature for April ( records since 1882 ) High max: 32.3.....3rd ( previous record 31.0 in 2014 ) Low max: 10.2.....20th ( record 7.7 in 1967 ) High min: 15.7.....1st ( record 18.6 in 1959 ) Low min: 2.0.....21st ( record 0.7 in 1963 ) Record
  13. March - Hobart, Tasmania Slightly wet with a mean temperature anomaly of +0.3c above 1991-2020 or +0.6c above 1961-1990. Mean maximum: 21.2 ( +0.5 ) Mean minimum: 11.6 ( +0.2 ) Rainfall: 60mm ( average 45mm ) Rain days ( +1mm ) : 6/from total 9 Generally cool at first with Southern Ocean fronts but showers few and far between. The trailing high to the west moved to the east on the 12th bringing a warm continental airflow. The cooler change was dry, with high pressure following through to the south and strengthening to the southeast of Tasmania and remaining stationary for several days, bringing a long warm sunny spell. Inversely, this strong southern high was directing considerably moist air off the Pacific onto the New South Wales coast. A cut off low formed off the New South Wales coast and tracked south, to be off Tasmania's northeast coast on the 24th, with 45mm in Hobart. There was another 6mm on the night of the 26th as a front crossed from the west, then dry. Extremes in daily temperature for March ( records since 1882 ) : High max: 29.1.....12th ( record 39.1 in 2019 ) Low max: 16.3.....2nd ( record 8.9 in 1925 ) High min: 16.4.....13th ( record 21.1 in 1906 ) Low min: 7.7.....14th ( record 1.8 in 1926 )
  14. 32.3c in Hobart today ( +14c above average ) and a new record high for April. It is also the highest April temperature recorded in Tasmania, beating 32.0c in 2005. Clear blue sky, fresh wind and humidity bottoming out at 15%...very summery indeed. Moving forward, trending cooler. Hobart highest April temperatures ( records since 1882 ) 32.3.....2021.....3rd 31.0.....2014.....1st 30.6.....1940.....1st 30.2.....1992.....4th 29.7.....2005.....1st
  15. In a historical context it appears to be the worst flooding along the mid north coast of New South Wales since the 1960s. That was one of the biggest floods recorded along that stretch of the coastline. In Sydney it is approaching the major flood event of 1990. It is going to get worse in Sydney over the next day or two as they are forced to release water from the engorged Warragamba Dam in the city's west.
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