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Yes I feel for you, I can't tolerate overnight heat at all. Have you got a ceiling fan or a portable? Suspect a ceiling fan doesn't make things too bad!

Primeminister Julia Gillard was in Hobart yesterday. A bit windswept but looking good, as winds peaked at 100km/hr / 62mi/hr. Usual fare for this time of the year: My local newspaper reported events, as usual, in the most theatrical of ways: http://www.themercur...ar-stories.html

Melbourne was 31 degrees yesterday ( 11 above average ), only a handful of years since records began in 1855 have had a day this hot pre mid spring. Much cooler weather has arrived. This morning it is 30 degrees in Sydney at 10am, very warm for this time of day, let alone for any month of the year. The cool wind change which went thru Melbourne late yesterday will reach Sydney around lunchtime.

Defiently a bit of whale in there with cricket chirps in the background.

It's due to a social telekinecticism. Millions of weather enthusiasts get excited, and where there is a multiple-multiple will, there will often be a result in the affirmative .

HOBART is Tasmania's capital city. Situated at sealevel with hills all around, it is also backed by a 1270m/4200ft mountain range. September - First month of spring Lots of variability. Intense low pressure systems barrelled northward during the first half of the month, skirting Tasmania's southern coast and bringing a prolonged period of strong to gale force westerly winds. The most active cold fronts during this period brought blustery showers and mountain snow, which descended to about the 400m level. The middle part of the month saw an onshore easterly flow develop, circulating between a weak high pressure system to the south east and a low pressure trough extending from the mainlands east coast down to Tasmania's north east coast. This produced low cloud, hill fog, and drizzle and rain at times. The final third of the month was more settled, culminating in a warm airflow projected down from the warming continent, before an active cold front crossed at the very end with the arrival of more mountain snow, again down to about the 400m level. For the 12th month in a row ( wow ), the average monthly temperature exceeded the 1981-2010 average. Average minimum: 7.3 ( +0.4 ) Average maximum: 15.9 ( +0.5 ) Rainfall: 68mm ( Average 54mm ) Daily temperature extremes Highest maximum: 25.0 ( Record 31.0 in 1987 ) Lowest maximum: 11.0 ( Record 6.1 in 1905 ) Highest minimum: 12.2 ( Record 18.0 in 1973 ) Lowest minimum: 2.8 ( Record -0.8 in 1897 )

CanadianCoops.. What is the biggest temperature extreme you have observed from one day to the next? I imagine it is a warm day followed by a very cold one but do you also get situations where the reverse happens ( very cold then a sudden warmth )?

Aftermath of yesterday's cold change. Snow lying at about 400m level in Hobart. Has melted away fairly quickly today under the warming sun, as is the way this side of winter.

Always yelling for "Help"

Perversely or not depending on your perspective it is usually an indicator that there's much more of them about than normal, or as humans like to describe it, they have overbred. So you are more likely to notice the unlucky ones. Here in Tasmania a declining number of dead devils on the roads is a bad indicator that that species is on the way out. Same goes for our other wandering 4 legged friends, the car paints an ecological story of whats going on, so to speak.

Cold outbreak forecast for Saturday across SE Australia, as we move toward the middle part of spring. Snow to 400m in Tasmania, 1000m in Victoria, with hail and thunder in suseptible places. In the meantime, it will be mild in Tasmania ( low 20s ) and warm in Victoria ( mid to high 20s ) before temperatures take an earnest plunge, before bouncing back up next week to more typical values.

Jealousy from everyone else

12.6 thanks. I don't have a reason why.

Big cat hunt in Victoria over. Sus. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/big-cat-hunt-declared-over-by-victorian-government-due-to-lack-of-evidence/story-fnbzs1v0-1226476682168

Hail 10cm deep ( 4 inches ) in south east Queensland, after a thunderstorm following a hot and humid spring day. September 19. From ABC news Australia.

Possibly visually overenhanced because of the first rays of light over the horizon. Looks like video taken at dawn?

It does look like it is travelling at the speed that a normal aircraft would, and its trajectory isn't wayward. The strange vapour trail appears to be dramatically dispersing as aircraft (?) rises above inversion layer?

^ Just an adjunct to your weekly report if I may! From ABC news website. Some place between Sydney and Newcastle, South NSW, early 19th September.

Sad times indeed when we get excited by a cooler than average month! Completley natural of course, but this is the new world order of things exceptions aside. I've been waiting for 12 months for one here

Amount of Antarctic seaice each season and its relevance to global warming is somewhat of an irrelevance. It melts in totallity every year, then makes its annual return. Check http://www.skeptical...gaining-ice.htm Offers explanation Antarctica v Arctic, and importance and non importance of seaice measurement for each as a GW determinent . Sorry if its been posted before, haven't read all of the posts in this thread

It's called a willy willy here, or more commonly known as a dust devil. No tornado. Great video, first I've seen it.

Would be interested to see a temperature anomoly map for Canada from time to time! Haven't been successful in locating one via a a basic search. Using wrong terms I suspect. As I understand it, southern Canada was very warm over summer, but what about the north?

I've never seen anything like it. I assume they heard the sheep bleet for help from under the snow? Or is this some sort of video prank. I lived in Swansea Mt Pleasant for a couple years by the way, good memories.

I thought it was a strange way to begin a story with "The river began turning the color of a nice marinara sauce on Thursday". Looks like a typical Australian inland river full of soil particles from bank erosion. Like the colour of a nice Aussie National pie with tomoto sauce, minus the pastry. But quite seriously, I hope the locals who are gathering samples aren't drinking or bathing in it either, just in case.

Same thing recently happened in Australia when a group of meteorologists with apparently a bit of time on their hands rewrote history: From Wikipedia: Hilarious. Oodnattada in South Australia, 50.7 in 1960, is now number 1.