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Re: Australian Weather
Storm season kicking into gear today with significant thunderstorms through Brisbane and surrounds this arvie.
Special 06Z sounding from Brisbane Airport showed good shear, good instability and a moist lower column pre line arrival.
Special 06Z sounding from Brisbane Airport showed good shear, good instability and a moist lower column pre line arrival.
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Re: Australian Weather
You are right. It's because of Climate Change. No funding to keep these lightning storms alive in areas that don't need them.
For proper Climate Change funding, you need countries like China to stop wasting lots of money on using fossil fuels and developing futuristic techniques like using the sun for energy, etc. It will happen, the proper techniques for that will develop as technology has developed quite a lot over the last 50 years or so.
...sorry off topic there
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Re: Australian Weather
In general it seems to me there is a weaker than normal start to the Australian thunderstorm season this year?
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Yes, lots of drier westerlies the last couple of weeks with the highs further north. Troughy right now though.
It remains a pretty bad drought in the south:
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Currently watching the position of the cooling sea breeze to see if Darwin Airport can break the all time temperature record.
Max so far today: 37.9C at 1158AM
All time record: 38.9C on 18 October in 1982
http://www.bom.gov.au/nt/observations/d ... ml?ref=hdr
Max so far today: 37.9C at 1158AM
All time record: 38.9C on 18 October in 1982
http://www.bom.gov.au/nt/observations/d ... ml?ref=hdr
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I see it maxed out at 38.2C, second highest on record. I was a little surprised to find out Darwin has never reached 40C before in its weather records.
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Darwin's old Post Office site apparently recorded 40.4C on 17 Oct 1892 (not sure how kosher that is though?).
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Yes, the sea breeze is just far too reliable here, in everyday by 2pm without fail. Yesterday's was 'on time' at 1230pm.
Date is when it would happen and could have easily happened if the sea breeze was very late and synoptic setup was pretty special.
We're heading for the worst bushfire season on record going by scar print. Late yesterday fires intensify and new ones start. Often all it takes is a stray glass bottle in direct sunlight, then spread by birds of prey.
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37 in Adelaide yesterday with extremely low humidity, one of the BOM stations has 2% showing on it's observations at one point!
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Re: Australian Weather
Many inland parts of OZ are getting hammered by the positive IOD. Broken Hill currently on 52mm YTD (record lowest year 70mm 1982) but an inland trough is becoming likely to drop more rain than has fallen so far this year over the coming days. Hope EC is right for their sake.
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Yes pretty bad there - updated map:
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More on the birds of prey moving and setting fires: (tgsnoopy asked me about this)
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/aust ... h-out-prey
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/aust ... h-out-prey
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Re: Australian Weather
5th driest October for Australia. All of the capital cities appear to have had a drier and sunnier October than usual, reflecting the widespread dryness.Cyclone Tracy wrote: ↑Thu 31/10/2019 14:37 Many inland parts of OZ are getting hammered by the positive IOD. Broken Hill currently on 52mm YTD (record lowest year 70mm 1982) but an inland trough is becoming likely to drop more rain than has fallen so far this year over the coming days. Hope EC is right for their sake.
Broken Hill EC projection.jpg
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Not a drought breaker but some relief for large areas of QLD, NSW and North West Victoria over the last week.
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An immense amount of raised dust from the interior heading over the Tasman today...
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It's quite streaky, most times we see it more evenly distributed across the sky
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Shocking amount of bushfires over the NSW north coast. Dewpoints into the negatives there the last couple of days and today..
Increased haze by the looks for much of NZ.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/weat ... 538fq.html
Increased haze by the looks for much of NZ.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/weat ... 538fq.html
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Yep - really not good there at all.
"The RFS has received multiple reports of people being trapped in their homes, and the fires have the potential to threaten communities and destroy homes"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-08/ ... g/11687126
Evans Head NSW AWS (coastal) reports 37/M06 right now with gusty NWerlies right after reaching 41, very shy off it's all time record.
"The RFS has received multiple reports of people being trapped in their homes, and the fires have the potential to threaten communities and destroy homes"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-08/ ... g/11687126
Evans Head NSW AWS (coastal) reports 37/M06 right now with gusty NWerlies right after reaching 41, very shy off it's all time record.
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Re: Australian Weather
wow thats bad man.. they really need a big rain storm or something to end the draught.Willoughby wrote: ↑Fri 08/11/2019 20:04 Yep - really not good there at all.
"The RFS has received multiple reports of people being trapped in their homes, and the fires have the potential to threaten communities and destroy homes"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-08/ ... g/11687126
Evans Head NSW AWS (coastal) reports 37/M06 right now with gusty NWerlies right after reaching 41, very shy off it's all time record.
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Re: Australian Weather
Looking at the GFS I see a lack of instability across Australia over the next week, November is thunderstorm season.
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Re: Australian Weather
Pity it's not today. Beautiful day in Sydney and I'm flying to Brisbane on QF524 in a few hours.