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The La Nina pattern means that one can expect above average rainfall, and below average maximum temps - although minimum temps may be above average due to cloud cover.
March is normally a warm and wet month regardless.
We ve had a very hot summer, with a november, january and february with temps above average. Last 12 days, luckily, were cooler and comfortable, but tonight we are back at the 27 celsius night Right now, at 11 pm, temp is 27 and night is sticky and kinda unbearable. Tomorrow is gonna be a hot day with temps above 30c, but on monday its supposed to cool down a bit.
Heres hoping March is a below average month and its not as hot as last march.
Heres hoping april comes soon and lovely autumn starts soon.
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March isn't really autumn here in Sydney, sure the risk of high heat (35C+) has mostly passed but it's still a pretty warm, sticky and wet month as Derek has said above. In the NH March is said to go "in like a lion, out like a lamb" but it's one of our more stable months temperature wise. Temps really don't start to go down until April.
The more southern parts such as Tasmania and the South Island of NZ feel autumn earlier of course. I think Joe90 has already had his first highland snowfall near his location.
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Going by average temps, December and March are pretty equal in Sydney. The difference is that December is a lot more volatile, with more variation particularly at the high end. 40C has never been recorded at Observatory Hill in March, for example.
The seasonal lag in SW WA is much more pronounced though, with seriously hot weather still possible in March (as this weeks forecast shows). High pressure systems tend to park themselves in the Bight this time of year, directing hot easterlies into SW WA whilst Sydney on the other side of it gets cool southerlies. This week is a classic example.
On the flipside, winter tends to hang on longer in SW WA (well into September) because the prevailing westerlies are coming off a cold Indian Ocean rather than the heating continent.
March isn't really autumn here in Sydney, sure the risk of high heat (35C+) has mostly passed but it's still a pretty warm, sticky and wet month as Derek has said above. In the NH March is said to go "in like a lion, out like a lamb" but it's one of our more stable months temperature wise. Temps really don't start to go down until April.
The more southern parts such as Tasmania and the South Island of NZ feel autumn earlier of course. I think Joe90 has already had his first highland snowfall near his location.
Going by average temps, December and March are pretty equal in Sydney. The difference is that December is a lot more volatile, with more variation particularly at the high end. 40C has never been recorded at Observatory Hill in March, for example.
The seasonal lag in SW WA is much more pronounced though, with seriously hot weather still possible in March (as this weeks forecast shows). High pressure systems tend to park themselves in the Bight this time of year, directing hot easterlies into SW WA whilst Sydney on the other side of it gets cool southerlies. This week is a classic example.
On the flipside, winter tends to hang on longer in SW WA (well into September) because the prevailing westerlies are coming off a cold Indian Ocean rather than the heating continent.
Spot on...its only in late March/April that we start seeing highs moving far enough north to get any sort of cooling S/SW cooling effect here. In September they're still generally not far south enough to bring any significant hot air flow from deep in the tropics.
Pretty hot day today at 32c (90f). Yesterday night temp was 27 celsius (auch) and today its sunny and hot. They say tomorrow high is gonna be 26c (mmmh, im hoping), but i guess tonight is gonna be a very hot night. I cant complain after we ve had 12 days of great weather, but today is one of those typical hot-sunny summer days that i wasnt missing at all, lol.
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Right now, at 11 pm, temp is 27 and night is sticky and kinda unbearable. Tomorrow is gonna be a hot day with temps above 30c, but on monday its supposed to cool down a bit.
