Darwin Chase - 2011

[tgsnoopy]

There is a totally bloated public sector up here which needs servicing. CSG is the big IT employer here with the NT Govt contract - mostly support roles I think.

Isn't one of the mangers there a prominent Storm Chaser/Photographer

[tunster]

I mean, why would you move to one of the world's most humid and sultry cities if you're going to turn your house into the Antarctic???

But I wonder if it really is (splitting hairs).
NH monsoonal cities (and some non-monsoonal) seem to get dewpoints as high as Darwin, and even higher still. e.g. 28-30C dewpoints appear relatively frequently over the subcontinent and Persian Gulf but the highest I can find at Darwin in recent years is 27-28C (excluding a dodgy looking 32C dewpoint on 9th January this year).

An interesting autumn day in Abu Dhabi (similar latitude to Rockhampton):

http://www.wunderground.com/history/air ... story.html

Start the morning with patchy fog and 35/34 (!!!), by 1PM it's a pleasantly dry 43/08...but not for long because 14 minutes later it's a slightly less endurable 39/24.