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A fairly uneventful start to summer with no extreme heat.
Main averages
Monthly minimum: 11.6 ( +0.5 )
Monthly maximum: 20.3 ( +0.3 )
Rainfall total: 52mm ( Average 57mm )
Extremes
Highest maximum: 27 ( December record 41 )
Lowest maximum: 14 ( December record 10 )
Highest minimum: 16 ( December record 24 )
Lowest minimum: 6 ( December record 3 )
Highest daily rainfall: 21mm ( During a 30 minute thunderstorm with flash flooding )
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Australia had its 3rd wettest year since official records commenced at the beginning of the 20th century.
Where I live however the anomoly wasn't huge, being this far south, La Nina years aren't as marked for wetness as further north.
691mm for the year fell compared to the 617mm average which covers 1881 onward
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Snowflakes can be observed falling in Hobart ( sealevel ) - usually as sleet - once every 2 or 3 years. It is almost always at night or at dusk or dawn.
These events are becoming less frequent.
( Newspaper reports from the 19th century tell of lying snow at sealevel every second winter or so ).
Last such event was in 1986 here, in Australia's southern most city.
In June a sleet event occured, close to midnight, looking up into the sky, there was a yellowy blizzard like scene 50 metres up, lit up by the street lights, with the occasional flake making it to the ground mixed with the rain. An exciting observation for any weather enthusiast.
A half degree colder then it would have been game on
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At 42 degrees south, with only the cold southern ocean seperating Tasmania from Antarctica, this time of year is often associated with tempermental conditions, passing showers is one common scenario assicated with cool SW flow behind cold fronts. These fronts don't usually reach mainland Australia at this time of year, dissipating as they move north.
This Christmas was good with no showers, with a close to average December maximum of 20 in the capital!
Snow settling on the mountain behind Hobart on Christmas day happens from time to time. Elevation 1200m ( 3600 feet ).
For all your interests
Lowest maximum on Christmas day 12.6 degrees ( 1984 )
Highest maximum on Christmas day 34.1 degrees ( 1945 )
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It is interesting, as it was the 10th warmest year globally.
That is quite far down the list of all time highs, and a bit of a surprise, to me.
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5.5c please.
yea same here
happy new year youse all
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Main averages
Average maximum: 20.7 (+2.2)
Average minimum: 10.9 (+1.3)
Rainfall: 54mm (Long term average 55mm)
Warmest November since 1982 here.
Extremes
Highest maximum: 31 ( November record is 37 )
Lowest maximum: 16 ( November record is 9 )
Highest minimum: 15 ( November record is 19 )
Lowest minimum: 5 ( November record is 2 )
Highest daily rainfall: 13mm
Highest wind speed: 46m/ph
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6.0 thanks.
( I use the 61-90 average, as I assume this is the standard WMO reference point )
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I winessed a black panther like creature at Llansamlet near Swansea in the spring of 2003. I estimated it would have been the size of a fully grown labrador, and most defiently feline in structure and movement. Specifically, the rip of the body and the shine of the coat stood out.
I was making my way to work along a track in a revegated area. Llansamlet is a light industrial/residential area but my daily walking track was thru quite an expanse of reserved land - taking in long grass, plantations and shrubbery, either side of a disused railway line.
Sighting was very brief. Perhaps a second or two. It may have been about 70 metres ahead of me as I turned a corner, and it was drinking at a puddle, It then 'sleeked' off into the undergrowth behind it. Sleeked is an apt word to describe that movement.
I made an online report to a research team working at the Swansea Uni, but didn't hear back from them.
Due to the relative high human population density in the UK it does go to show how brilliantly pervasive these creatures are ( whatever they may be ).
Can hope under a similar scenario that Tasmania's very own thylacine is just as cunning.
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Surprisingly, these events are not especially rare during La nina summers, its the frequency of the intensity of these events which I think is being noted as significant.
We also have the same media obsession about weather extremeties as the UK press appears to have, so such events are usually overblown a little or a lot.
Still it was a noticable storm.
Models don't indicate such a severe southern 'wet season' this year as last, but indications point to it being wetter than the norm, so I reckon more events like these are a sure thing.
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^ This is great
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I'll be making my move over there in January, so I don't want December to be too extreme from a selfish point of view, unless it kicks off in December and persists into the new year.
And this going to make me sound very juvenille but.. I'd love to witness some cars spin out in a black ice situation.
Some youtube video I saw sometime ago, two women abandoned their car when it couldn't get a grip and they slid down the road with it..(they were OK ).
You guys really know how to do black ice
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Main averages
Maximum average: 17.1 ( -0.1 below 1961-90 average )
Minimum average: 8.2 ( equal to 1961-90 average )
Rainfall: 62.2mm ( 0.5mm below 1882-2010 average )
Doesn't get much closer to the average than that.
Extremes
Highest maximum 29C ( Record 35 for October )
Lowest maximum 11C ( Record 6 for October )
Highest minimum 17C ( Record 20 for October )
Lowest mimum 3C ( Record 0 for October )
Wettest day 11mm
Highest wind gust 85km/hr ( 63m/ph )
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The warm October in Britain has even been mentioned on Australian ABC TV news bulletins.
A brief reference to the high anomolies superimposed on a map, straight after the NE USA snow story.
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Whatever it is it is a disappointment, making the previous couple of years look like rouge years, fooling everyone from the real suckers like Madden and just ordinary people thinking that a cool down process could be a permanent fixture.
The CET is obviously a globally significant data set.
Alas, no. Probably not.
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Slightly off topic, but I like waking up on a Monday morning to murk and drizzle or rain, knowing you'll be at work and it's worse outside than in, the wish to be outside isn't there so the mind isn't wandering away beyond the glass window.. rather than going to work on a lovely Monday, after a wet weekend.
Or maybe I just need a new job, but just a random thought nevertheless
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Got to agree with Aaron about windless days and heat. In fact i don't like windless days at all, there's something too still about the world, nothing rustling or moving, nothing felt on the skin apart from your film of building sweat , a mild form of sensory deprivation.
Warm nights, anything over 18C - especially after a hot sunny day and having forgotten to close the curtains during the day to keep out the heat. These extreme warm nights are becoming more frequent here and it was only last year that I thought it would be a good idea to buy a fan!
And endless days of sameness...partly cloudy and mild. Kinda boring.
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Ha - You are kidding right? Who is suggesting such a thing!
Similar confusing responses can be heard in Queensland, which doesn't have daylight saving. It's a movement principally coming from folk in Brisbane. The last referendum on the issue was narrowly defeated.
Best (or worst excuse) by those against that I have heard was that an extra hour of sunlight would fade the curtains. I think a politician who represented an outback electorate said that, and said it quite seriously
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Learnt a lot in the last month or two about British weather, weather systems and influences on the climate from this site.
The CET certainly does bounce around a lot, the extremes are quite surprising.
My estimate for Nov ( from a real novice ) is 7.7.
Then very cold and snowy afterwards !
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Cold weather option for me aswell.
Continuous heat is often hard to avoid even in air conditioned homes. And down here it comes with flies, mozzies, usually bushfire smoke in the air, and sunburn in under 10 minutes.
Cold all the way.
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For Cambridge, around 270mm has fallen this year.
10 years ago today, on 21st October 2001, 90mm of rain fell in one day (which did lead to flooding in parts of Cambridge). Now, if you compare that figure to this year, it wasn't until the end of May when that figure of 90mm had been reached for the year so far, so it took nearly 5 months to achieve 90mm of rainfall this year, but it was done in one day in October 2001!
That is very dry indeed !
That rainfall statistic is actually comparable to the most arid parts of Australia.
The 50 largest urban places in Australia ranks from Sydney at number 1, to the mining town of Kalgoorlie at 50 ( population 23,000, 700 miles east of Perth ).
Every one of those 50 places has a 2011 rainfall figure in excess of 300mm.
The bottom two are: Kalgoorlie with 308mm so far for the year, and Alice Springs with 321mm.
So 270mm is very dramatic ! No doubt a big flood is around the corner, usually seems to tend from one extreme to the next
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Lowest cumulative rainfall totals so far for the year?
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Wrong, and the weird thing I notice always about weather nuts is It always reminds me of Oscar when, to quote, the boor sidled up to him in the pub and said, " I passed your house last night Mr. Wilde", and Oscar replied, " Thank you".
I'm talking about the narrow line.
Please explain.
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I have the power to smell snow in the air before it actually begins to fall. It has obviously got to be cold to begin with with moisture in the air. But there is a discernable snow smell.
I often also think about what the temperature might be when I am outside, and when I check it out by looking at the official temperature, I find in most instances I am within 1.5C of accuracy !
Annual Statistics For 2011
in Spring Weather Discussion
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Australia had a marginally cooler than average year (-0.1 below average ) making it the first negative anomoly year since 2001 and only the third negative anomoly year since 1985.
It was down to a very active La Nina year with a more intense and prolonged monsoon season, supressing temperatures markedly in tropical, the subtropical east and desert Australia. The southern half of Australia however, was milder than average, and SW Western Australia had record warmth.
The annual rainfall from a widespread network of rainfall site observations was the 3rd highest on record ( since 1900 ). It was back to back wet years for Australia.
Australia extremes 2011
Highest maximum: 49 ( Roebourne, Western Australia )
Lowest maximum: -5 ( Thredbo, New South Wales )
Highest minimum: 32 ( Thargomindah airport, Queensland )
Lowest minimum: -16 ( Charlottes Pass, New South Wales )
Highest rainfall: 10078mm ( Belienden Ker Top, Queensland )
Lowest rainfall: 122mm ( Bond Springs Turnoff, Northern Territory )
Highest daily rainfall: 477mm ( Mornington Island, Queensland )
Highest wind speed: 128mi/hr ( Willis island, Queensland ) Edge of cyclone.
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - State capital, sealevel
Mean max: 17.5 ( +0.5 )
Mean min: 9.1 ( +0.5 )
Highest maximum: 34 ( Record is 41 )
Lowest maximum: 7 ( Record is 4 )
Highest minimum: 19 ( Record is 25 )
Lowest minimum: 1 ( Recod is -3 )
Rainfall: 691mm ( Average 617mm )
Highest daily total: 76mm