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It has certainly been a summer to remember for home grown tornadoes. The northern Victoria event followed several tornadoes on the south coast of NSW (Kiama-Nowra area 100 km south of Sydney) in late February. The strongest of these cut a swathe through a section of eucalypt forest and was estimated as an F2. These twisters occurred in the early hours of the morning and the F2 narrowly missed the town of Shoalhaven Heads. Damage occurred in Kiama from an estimated F1.
Meanwhile, summer is hanging on with annoying tenacity around here. Most of Sydney suffered a weekend of 30C temps and near 20C dewpoints, more fitting of midsummer. Thankfully, autumn looks like it's getting a move on after another burst of heat this week, which will even give Melbourne a parting shot at 35C (no doubt G-man will be pleased). Temps of 30C and above can still occur until the end of April in Sydney, but these are usually single day events preceding a cold front. As a result, overnight temps and dewpoints are much more comfortable.
6.5C in Motueka yesterday morning. Probably not too many mornings like that in Wellington in March? The cloudy weather the other day, was the first real autumn day.
Another sure sigh of autumn, with air force helicopters doing the annual pot raids over the last few days.
No, there aren't. Noticeably higher diurnal range, for sure. Left Nelson today - partly cloudy skies with good sun were rapidly replaced by overcast ones in the Whangamoa area, not a long drive away. From the Tasman area one could clearly see a "street" of cumuli starting a little to the north of the land and stretching over the hilly bloc to the east. Brightened up gradually further east and brilliantly clear over the Wairau - had a nice lunch at a winery before getting the ferry.
Indian Summer continuing here, hot until Thursday 28th March, 33C in western suburbs areas - then a slow taper over the week-end.
Not often the heat lasts quite this long, usually about 1 week earlier- ""it is all over bar the shouting"".
and now you say you dont desire 30c nights??? LOL, make a tiny bit of sense at least!!!!
Or are you just a troll giving every HORRIBLE AND UNBEARABLE climate an A just for the hell of it, when you have NO IDEA what those temperatures feel like! ?
Most likely
i don't know about Kuwait
But in Baghdad Iraq, every night the temps cools down and a nice breeze takes affect..
Another excellent rain event overnight, 22mm so far which is very substantial for a cold front in March. Only 12.7C atm, feels colder with the strong winds. Rain should start to ease off later in the morning, forecast maximum for today is 21C.
Another excellent rain event overnight, 22mm so far which is very substantial for a cold front in March. Only 12.7C atm, feels colder with the strong winds. Rain should start to ease off later in the morning, forecast maximum for today is 21C.
Very pleased for you mate.
I see from DWO that 69mm has fallen MTD.
According to WZ, it's the highest March total in more than 40 years: Weather News - Perth records wettest March in decades.
As for the 1971 (71mm) value, this was taken at the now closed RO site (1876-1992) and
for the current "airport" site (1944-open), 1968 held the previous record high of 61mm.
It only reached 20C - one of the coldest March days on record?
This is turning out to be one of the saddest March's I can ever remember .
Apart from the lovely cloudy and wet, southerly conditions that prevailed over the first few days, the remainder of this month, to date, has been shockingly revolting with very little rain falling, blasted with more sun than I would have liked and the humidity simply horrendous along with the lack of "wind" and prevalance of light humid N-NW-NE flows.
Some scud cloud streamed in at times but the humidity was just plain awful - gives a new meaning to " Return To Plain Awful"
Around half the average rain has fallen MTD so far - 62mm in the city and 75mm in my area. On the plus side, left home early this morning in the midst of a very torrential shower that dumped 11mm - very refreshing indeed - but nothing upon arriving in the CBD as per usual .
There has been a lot of short-lived shower activity which have remained confined to the extreme coastal eastern suburbs, my area included, and not penetrating much further inland.
Humidity levels have been much higher than usual over the past few days with today being the worst of the month so far, can't recall such a humid March day in some years and it certainly is driving some locals troppo.
Also the A/C has been on more frequently compared to last month - so much for antipication of lower electricity bills - it's times like this when I really hate Mother Nature for turning the tables on us so suddenly
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