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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington
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Sydney and the south coast are now in a total fire ban with a heatwave declared after temperatures hit 37.4c in Hay and 36.5c in Penrith 

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  • Location: Hampshire
  • Weather Preferences: Warm-by-day sunny thundery summers , short cold snowy winters.
  • Location: Hampshire
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16 hours ago, Summer Sun said:

Sydney and the south coast are now in a total fire ban with a heatwave declared after temperatures hit 37.4c in Hay and 36.5c in Penrith 

Obviously its closer to the equator than much of Europe, but those temps sound incredibly hot given it's not even the spring equinox yet in the southern hemisphere.

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  • Location: Hobart, Tasmania
  • Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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Quite a pronounced September heatwave across central eastern Australia just gone...lasting 5 or 6 days between 15th/16th through to the 20th, maxima somewhere between 8-12C above average, but peaking higher than that in some spots. A number of all-time September heat records were broken, almost all of them in New South Wales, but the duration of days in a row exceeding 30C for September ( 5 or 6 ) was the standout. Certainly very unusual to see such elevated fire danger ratings at the very beginning of spring.

Sydney had 5 days in a row over 30C ( a September record ) and the peak of 34.6C on the 20th was the equal highest September temperature  (records since 1859 ). Sydney September average maximum is 20C.

Sydney Highest September Maximum:

34.6C.....Sep 19th 2023

34.6C.....Sep 26th 1965

34.2C.....Sep 25th 1980

33.9C.....Sep 20th 2023

33.8C.....Sep 13th 2017

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Winter across Australia was the warmest on record. Never known of a winter in Tasmania to have no snow below 700m asl, like we've just experienced. We now enter what may be an extended period of dry weather or drought into summer, with El Nino and IOD climate drivers pointing that way.

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  • Location: Hobart, Tasmania
  • Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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Western Australia latest area to be impacted by significant spring heat in Australia. Perth max of 34.3C on Wednesday (+13C above average) breaks September heat record (records since 1897), numerous other places across a very wide area in that state, more monthly records likely to fall by the 30th in the west.

Perth Highest September Daily Maximum

34.3C....Sep 27th 2023

34.2C....Sep 20th 2014

33.1C....Sep 9th 2019

32.7C....Sep 30th 1918

32.3C....Sep 18th 1988

ABC News article looks at the situation.

WWW.ABC.NET.AU

September temperature records tumble across Western Australia today, including in Perth, as an unusual wave of scorching spring weather sets in over the state.

By October 1, the heat makes it to the east, very hot again for New South Wales...inland near 40C, Sydney 35C. 

Intriguing worrisome developments at the beginning of the warming season; especially in light of current global events !   

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  • Location: Hobart, Tasmania
  • Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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BoM confirms Australia had its THIRD warmest September with a +2.4C temperature anomaly. For mean maximum temperature alone it was the SECOND warmest, just behind September 2013, with a +3.4C anomaly. 

The bigger statistic is how dry it is at the moment - the DRIEST September on record for Australia.

 

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  • Location: Hobart, Tasmania
  • Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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WWW.ABC.NET.AU

While even a 50mm soaking is unlikely to put out the larger blazes, the rain should assist in controlling the future spread of fires while also preventing new ones igniting.

 

Good news. Bushfire has destroyed 70 homes in eastern Australia so far this spring with 4 fatalities - the most destructive fires so early in the season, since 2013. 

September-October has been the driest start to spring in Australia on record, edging out 2019 (there is a historical graph of this in the embedded story).

October was another warm month but not as anomalously warm as September.

 

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Posted
  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington
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Sydney airport has recorded its hottest December day on record on Saturday with a high of 43.5C/110.3F

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  • Location: Norwich,Norfolk.
  • Weather Preferences: thunderstorms /winter storms and blizzards.
  • Location: Norwich,Norfolk.
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6 hours ago, Summer Sun said:

Decent thunderstorm over Sydney, currently with near constant lightning

 

https://webcamsydney.com/

 

great footage i recommend  looking at daniel shaw australia amazing pictures and videos on his website and youtube.

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington
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Queensland has recorded its hottest January day on record, with Birdsville Airport hitting 49.4c yesterday

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  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: cold and snowy. Summer: hot and sunny
  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)
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WWW.BBC.CO.UK

Storms hamper efforts to fight bushfires in the state's west, which is under a catastrophic fire warning.

 

Posted
  • Location: Bournemouth
  • Location: Bournemouth
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Worlds first 50C today, both Carnarvon and Shark Bay airports in Western Australia recorded 50.0C today. Both all time records for those locations. 

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Posted
  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington
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South Australia has smashed its all time winter record with 38.5C, 101.3F in Oodnadatta.

 

This beats the previous record of 36.5C, also set in Oodnadatta on August 12, 1946.

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  • Location: Noonamah, Top End NT
  • Location: Noonamah, Top End NT
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The following day Oodnadatta topped it again with 39.4, with the following week forecast a bit cooler.

Oodnadatta:
23 Aug     38.5
24 Aug     39.4
25 Aug     31.9
1st 25 days of August
Av Max.    26.6

At home we've been not quite as hot, but more consistent:
23 Aug     37.0
24 Aug     37.6
25 Aug     38.6
1st 25 days of August
Av Max.    35.3

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington
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Yampi Sound in Western Australia has recorded the highest temperature ever in Australia during winter, hitting 41.5c, beating the previous record of 41.2c in West Roebuck on August 23, 2020.

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Posted
  • Location: Bournemouth
  • Location: Bournemouth
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Melbourne had a max temp of 38.7C on Sunday (nothing unusual there in summer) however a max temp the following day was just 16.8C so a huge drop of 21.9C from Sunday to Monday.

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  • Location: Hampshire
  • Weather Preferences: Warm-by-day sunny thundery summers , short cold snowy winters.
  • Location: Hampshire
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 Alderc 2.0 That does seem to be a feature of the Melbourne climate, it does get really silly heat but the cool airmasses are seriously cool. 16.8C as a max would be cool in early July even for southern England. Consequently the mean max for January is 27C, if I remember right, pleasantly hot but not extreme.

This is how it differs from say the Mediterranean, in which temps below 20C in mid-summer only happen with cold pools and prolonged rain.

A function of the uninterrupted sea between it and the Antarctic, I guess!

It would be interesting to see what effect on the Mediterranean climate there would be if the Alps didn't exist. Though not as extreme as Melbourne, I would imagine the Mediterranean would be far more prone to occasional cooler and wetter interludes in the summer every time northerly synoptics occurred.

 

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  • Location: Hampshire
  • Weather Preferences: Warm-by-day sunny thundery summers , short cold snowy winters.
  • Location: Hampshire
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 Weather-history Only just noticed this, I guess in September snow isn't uppermost in many of our minds.

Had a quick look up of Trentham, Victoria: September snow certainly seems extreme for somewhere at that latitude but it does look like it is at 700 metre altitude. These drier climates do seem to be more prone to out-of-season snow generally than Northwest Europe, for example I was in LA during the Easter of 2003 and during a short but potent cold spell, heavy lying snow fell on the San Gabriel mountains down to altitudes of around 1000m, i.e. below that of Ben Nevis. In mid-April, at 34 North!

 

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  • Location: Cheshire
  • Location: Cheshire
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Scenes last night on UK TV of flooding at Townsville on the NE coast of Australia. Something approaching 40ins of rain over 3 days (I think it was), the worst for 50 years and leading to serious flooding issues. I recall visiting Townsville in 1994, a nice place and a gateway to the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef.  

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  • Location: Napier, New Zealand
  • Weather Preferences: Interesting Synoptics.
  • Location: Napier, New Zealand
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 A Face like Thunder I’ve commented on this on the NZ thread.

A very deep ex tropical LP is moving south well to the east of New Zealand and that in turn has blocked the pattern over us and over you. We’ve had an HP in the Tasman for days and that presumably is holding the LP over eastern Australia and especially North Queensland.

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  • Location: Cheshire
  • Location: Cheshire
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 stodge Thanks, I'm in Cheshire in the UK and no such problems here, thank goodness. I've always been aware that N Queensland is prone to heavy rainfalls at this time of year, but recent rainfall around Townsville has apparently been the worst for 50 years.

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