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Weather Discussion => International => Topic started by: Mark on January 10, 2022, 10:46:27 PM
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The large town of Maryborough in Queensland (population approx. 22,000) is mopping up today after the Mary River inundated large parts of the town.
A 14-year-old girl is still missing after being swept away in a raging torrent, while the entire CBD was evacuated after floodwaters breached the town's temporary levee.
Image: Cars in suburban Maryborough. Source: @Jennybeck63 via Instagram.
The weather is mostly fine in the area as we write this summary on Monday, with only a moderate chance of showers in the next 48 hours and the prospect of a mostly fine week ahead, but the amount of rain that caused this event is truly staggering.
A whopping 674 mm of rain in the 24 hours to 9 am Saturday was recorded at the weather station at the rural locality of Marodian, about 40 km southwest of Maryborough in the catchment of the Mary River.
This was the highest 24-hour rainfall tally anywhere in Australia since 2018, when 678 mm was recorded at the tiny town of Halifax, which lies just north of Townsville and is about 1200 km northwest of Maryborough along the Qld coastline.
So while this weekend's Maryborough region rainfall was exceptional by any standard, it is all the more remarkable considering that such enormous amounts fell in a town which is technically just south of the Tropic of Capricorn (you'd usually expect the heaviest daily rainfall in Australia to be recorded in the far tropical north).
The town of Maryborough itself received "only" 83.6 mm to 9 am Saturday, with falls of around 25 mm the day before and after. While those three days brought more than Maryborough's December average of 128 mm within three days, it was the much heavier rainfall in the catchment that caused the Mary River to flood.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/maryborough-still-awash-after-heaviest-aussie-rain-day-in-three-years/535892
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After losing its title of Tropical Cyclone, Ex-Tropical Cyclone Tiffany is still providing plenty of rain to the Kimberley region and central Australia.
24-hour rainfall totals to 9am Saturday saw many observation sites still in the 50-100mm ranges, and a couple of 100+mm in varying places. Some big falls from 9am Saturday to 4:30am Sunday included Koolan Island – 119mm, Oombagooma – 77mm, Leopold Downs – 74mm and Lombadina Airstrip with 70mm.
Thick cloud extends from the NT to the coast of SA. So not only is Ex-TC Tiffany still dishing out the rain, but plenty of inland locations are getting a well needed break from the heat as well. Many towns lucky enough to be close to Ex-TC Tiffany, should see comfortable temperatures in the low-30s, and even in the 20s for some places.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/its-raining-its-pouring-extropical-cyclone-tiffany-has-yet-to-start-snoring-/535945
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A remote coastal town in Western Australia, Onslow, registered a temperature of 50.7C, matching its hottest ever recorded temperature. The record was first set in 1960.
While several parts of the globe are battling extremely cold conditions, Australia is recording high temperatures.
Not just Onslow, but other Western Australian sites including Roebourne airport and Mardie also hit 50.5C.
Several other towns in the region are also likely to set temperature records for January or any time of the year. Iron-ore export hub Karratha reached 48.4C as it exceeded its previous high of 48.2C.
https://www.sott.net/article/463403-Australian-town-records-hottest-day-on-record-with-temperatures-over-50C
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Australia's farmers are expected to post a record-breaking $78 billion agricultural production value in 2021-22, thanks in part to the first back-to-back La Nina events in a decade.
Despite flooding rain delaying harvests and destroying some crops in parts of eastern Australia last month, the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) is predicting Australia's gross value of agricultural production to reach $78 billion in 2021/22.
This historic production value has been caused by a combination of factors:
Exceptional growing conditions over a large area of Australia
A poor season being experienced by key overseas competitors
Prices at multi-year highs for many agricultural commodities
This year's La Niña, the second to be declared in as many years, was one of the reasons Australia experienced such good growing conditions in recent months.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/record-78bn-year-for-agricultural-production-in-australia/535653
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A severe thunderstorm warning has been cancelled for Victoria as the state begins to clean up after the devastating wild weather.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) issued an update at 5am this morning to say the severe thunderstorms were no longer occurring in the state.
"The immediate threat of severe thunderstorms has passed, but the situation will continue to be monitored and further warnings will be issued if necessary," the BoM said.
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Severe thunderstorm warnings are in place for Gympie, Kin Kin and Tin Can Bay, with the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting more intense rainfall that may lead to life threatening flash flooding is on its way.
Multiple emergency alerts are also in place in Logan, Ipswich, Cooby Creek, Beachmere, and Noosa.
The Cooby #&@% in Cooby Creek has started to spill with properties in the area set to be hit with floodwaters.
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Brisbane residents have been told to expect consistent rainfall over the coming three days, with conditions set to remain humid - with above 30C temperatures forecast all weekend - and damp.
The BoM predicts a 70 per cent chance of rain today in Brisbane, with between four to 15mm set to fall over the city.
The BoM said these are expected to hit this afternoon.
"The issue is our catchments are so full, so saturated it is really not going to take much rain at all for them to come up once again," Today reporter Jess Millward explained.
"Today is really going to test the patience of people. That is because the Mud Army is standing by, 10,000 people. Now they won't be deployed until tomorrow because of the severe weather forecast. Schools have been closed.
"Today is going to be a very trying day for south east Queensland."
Similar conditions are set for Saturday and Sunday, before the heavy rainfall is forecast to trail off early and mid next week.
Why is it raining so much?
A deepening low-pressure system is moving through the coast, bringing a burst of dangerous weather to parts of eastern NSW as it moves towards the coast.
Rain radar
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https://www.9news.com.au/national/nsw-queensland-flood-news-explainer-when-is-it-going-to-stop-raining-why-weather-forecast/7013f18e-78f6-47b0-ab13-04f60bad1425
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A low pressure system should develop and will affect east coast NSW from tomorrow. This system will bring heavy rain and thunderstorms, affecting already flooded areas. There is a moderate-to-high chance for thunderstorms and rainfall each day from Sunday 6th to Tuesday 8th, concentrated over eastern NSW.
Tuesday 8th will be the day to watch for widespread rainfall, with the possibility of accumulated precipitation reaching more than 200mm over 24 hours, most likely in the Sydney area. This will exacerbate the flooding problems caused by previous rainfall last week.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/heavy-rain-returning-to-sydney-and-surrounds-in-coming-days-/536483
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Flash flooding in the outback city of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, on 15 March 2022 has prompted flood rescues and caused one fatality.
While many areas of northern and eastern parts of the state are recovering from the widespread flooding that began in late February, heavy rain caused flash flooding in the far west of New South Wales (NSW) on 15 March 2022.
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said "26mm of rain fell in 30 minutes at Broken Hill with thunderstorms earlier this afternoon. Heavy rainfall is likely with slow moving storms over western NSW. A severe thunderstorm warning is in place."
A total of 72.4 mm of rain fell in 24 hours at Broken Hill Airport. Local media said numerous locals have reported more than double that amount.
https://www.sott.net/article/465520-More-deadly-floods-hit-New-South-Wales-Australia-An-inch-of-rain-in-just-30-minutes
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The New South Wales coastline has copped a lashing this weekend with monstrous waves swallowing beaches and wiping out footpaths.
Wild footage taken at Avoca Beach, north of Sydney, on Saturday demonstrated their power as the huge tide thrashed the sand, wiping out two dog walkers.
Two people can be seen walking on the beach before being knocked down and swept up in the swell.
The force of the tide continued to whip across parklands and paths that lined North Avoca beach, with people seen running for safety.
Onlookers compared it to a "mini tsunami", while others said it's the "worst we've seen".
Meanwhile, Wanda beach in Sydney's South vanished under the tide on Saturday as some brave locals attempted to utilise the small stretch of beach that remained.
Photos shared on a Sutherland Shire Facebook group show the waves smashing the coastline, with almost the entire stretch of sand underwater.
Bondi and Clovelly beaches were flooded over as waves battered the walls of the beachside Coogee Surf Club.
Boats were ripped from their moorings inside the harbour at Manly Wharf, with some vessels washing up on nearby beaches.
A sailing vessel was spotted capsized at Bronte beach with emergency services launching a search for potentially missing crew.
But the search was cancelled after the boat's owner came forward to say it had been ripped from its dock at Gordons Bay due to the heavy seas.
Hazardous surf set to lash NSW coast again
A hazardous surf warning remains in place for the NSW coast with the Bureau of Meteorology saying it's likely to stick around until Monday.
But conditions are continuing to ease across Sydney after huge gusts of wind swept the city, including one of 74 km/h on Friday.
The weather system is currently tracking south with the BOM issuing a severe weather warning for parts of the Snowy Mountains and South Coast on Sunday.
The South Coast is expected to experience heavy rain with a risk of flash-flooding in the area, but conditions are expected to ease by Monday.
https://www.sott.net/article/466274-Unusually-large-waves-flood-beach-parks-along-New-South-Wales-coast
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Residents living in Queensland's Southern Downs have been issued several emergency warnings as a number of towns south of Toowoomba are lashed by severe flash flooding.
Up to 90 millimetres of rain fell overnight in areas along the Condamine River, with water levels tipped to peak at around lunchtime today.
Regions set to cop the brunt of the flooding include the Southern Downs towns of Allora, Killarney and Condamine.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/weather-update-flooding-forces-major-road-closures-in-queensland-while-warnings-also-remain-in-victoria/2e34a215-8e55-46b2-b74a-0493c073b4d2
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Australia could be in for a wet winter, with new model data suggesting that a negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) could emerge in the next few months.
Australia’s weather is influenced by several broad-scale climate drivers. These include:
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) – the Pacific Ocean fluctuates between La Niña, El Niño and neutral conditions, which influences rain and temperature in northern and eastern Australia, typically across multiple seasons.
Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) – the Indian Ocean constantly swings between negative, neutral, and positive phases of the IOD, which affects rainfall and temperature across large areas of Australia in winter and spring.
Southern Annular Mode (SAM) – this index measures the north-south displacement of a belt of westerly winds flowing between Australia and Antarctica. The phase of SAM typically affects rain, wind and snow in southern and eastern Australia.
Over the last four-to-five months, Australia has been under the influence of La Niña and a predominantly positive SAM. These two climate drivers have caused above-average rain over parts of Australia.
However, La Niña events typically break down around autumn and while this current La Niña is persisting longer than usual, it is expected to end in May or June. Meanwhile, the SAM is expected to be neutral or weakly positive in the coming weeks and have little influence on Australia’s weather.
What lies ahead?
As La Niña and SAM gradually lose their influence on Australia’s weather, the focus in the coming months will shift to what is happening in the Indian Ocean.
New model data released this week suggests that the IOD could enter a negative phase in the next two-to-three months and possibly persist through winter into spring.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/wet-winter-outlook-as-potential-negative-iod-looms-for-australia-/537056
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Tasmania's south-east has been hit with a record-breaking storm that hammered towns with hail, resulted in dozens of flood warnings, and left thousands more without power.
And there is a warning more extreme weather is on the way.
Police are investigating whether heavy rain was behind a car accident that left a pedestrian, 81, dead.https://www.9news.com.au/national/tasmania-weather-update-news-record-breaking-storm-flood-warnings-thousands-without-power/d13141b4-ad4b-4d63-bef3-973c46f63c22
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REMARKABLE COLD GRIPS TASMANIA
This week, an intense polar chill has gripped Australia’s island state of Tasmania.
A remarkable low of -9.9C (14.2F) was registered in the town of Liawenee (1,057 m) Tuesday morning, May 24 — a reading that is just 0.6C above the station’s monthly record and the third lowest temperature ever recorded in Tasmania in May. For reference, Australia’s national May record remains the -13.4C (7.9F) set at Charlotte Pass, NSW in 2008 (solar minimum of cycle 23).
The Aussie mainland, although holding mild of late, is on course for its own sharp cool down before the end of the month, with the cold set to intensify further as the calendar flips to June:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) June 1 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Latest GFS runs are also picking up on substantial accumulations of early-season snow across the higher elevations of Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales:
https://electroverse.net/remarkable-cold-grips-tasmania-lows-fall-across-wyoming-and-nebraska-skiing-on-memorial-day/
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MAY 31, 2022 CAP ALLON
Much of Australia is currently in the grips of a sharp polar cool down.
Cold and windy weather is forecast to persist across much of Australia, particularly the south-east, after a polar front and deep low-pressure system delivered wild weather to the nation Monday night.
Severe weather warnings for damaging winds remain in place for parts of NSW, Victoria, Queensland, SA and the ACT as of Tuesday, while the mercury for many is predicted to plunge into record-breaking territory for the time of year.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) is advising that a “very cold and windy air mass will remain over the region for the next 24-48 hours”, with the coldest of the air sweeping south-eastern regions Tuesday afternoon/evening.
https://electroverse.net/australias-polar-blast-best-start-to-a-ski-season-in-more-than-50-years/
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Brisbane, which shivered through its coldest start to winter in more than 100 years on Thursday, will also brace the harsh climate with a minimum of 6C and 7C for the next two days.
The six degrees for Brisbane and seven degrees for Sydney on Friday is the lowest drop for those two cities in 33 years.
Perth has slightly warmer weather for the long weekend but showers are expected to drench the city.
The Top End will be noticeably cooler for the next five days after record-breaking hot temperatures in June.
The chilly weather is affecting the south-east heavily due a high in the Great Australian Bight that continues to funnel icy wind north through the country.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10900411/Aussies-SHIVER-long-weekend-icy-winds-force-temperatures-plummet.html
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Five of the seven capital cities are shivering through below average winter temperatures.
The most notable, according to Weatherzone, include Melbourne where maximum temperatures are predicted to only hit 11 to 13C all week, making for the "city's coldest week this early in the season since 1982."
Sydney is also feeling the effects of winter's chill.
"Sydney's daily maximums will range from 15 to 17C all week, with minimums reached 6 to 7C. This would be Sydney's coldest run of days this early in the season since 1989," Weatherzone said, adding records in Queensland will also be smashed.
"Brisbane has not seen a week this cold, this early in the season, since 1904."
Brisbane will only reach about 17 to 19C from Tuesday to Sunday, with minimums plunging to 6 to 8C.
Marine wind warnings are currently in effect for all states and territories - save the Australian Capital Territory.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/weather-update-australia-what-the-rest-of-winter-has-in-store-for-australia/105f6298-9767-4882-ad3a-58810568cd76
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While large areas of southern Australia are enduring an abnormally cold start to winter, parts of northern Australia have just copped a burst of record-challenging June heat.
A lingering hot air mass and easterly winds over the NT’s Top End and the Kimberley in WA has caused temperatures to soar into the mid-to-high thirties every day during the first week of June. While these temperatures are well below the all-time national heat record of 50.7ºC, they are exceptionally high for this time of year.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/australias-2nd-highest-june-temperature-on-record/617595
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Stretching all the way from the equator to Melbourne, a long cloudband is bringing patchy rain, a sign of things to come this winter and spring.
A broad trough connected to a cold front in the south has been building in the Indian Ocean over the last few days. After yesterday's crossing of southwestern parts of WA, the cloud is now stretching all the way from a tropical disturbance near the equator just south of Sri Lanka, all the way to the northwest near Port Hedland, across Uluru, to Victoria, and later on Tasmania.
Image: Satellite showing the cloudband stretching from the equator to Victoria
Cloudbands like this are fairly common during a negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event, something that is likely to develop over the next few weeks. The IOD is fairly similar to the more commonly known El Niño and La Niña events that occur in the Pacific Ocean, with La Niña being the most similar to a negative IOD for Australia.
During a negative IOD, warmer waters stay near the northwest shelf of Australia. This moisture can fuel vast northwest cloudbands, like the one today, which can cause widespread rain, thunderstorms and flooding, especially west of the Great Dividing Range. The map below shows how negative IOD events typically affect Australia’s winter-spring rainfall.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/7000km-long-cloudband-stretches-across-the-country-/640933
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While large areas of southern Australia are enduring an abnormally cold start to winter, parts of northern Australia have just copped a burst of record-challenging June heat.
A lingering hot air mass and easterly winds over the NT’s Top End and the Kimberley in WA has caused temperatures to soar into the mid-to-high thirties every day during the first week of June. While these temperatures are well below the all-time national heat record of 50.7ºC, they are exceptionally high for this time of year.
Image: Modelled 2-metre air temperature anomalies on Sunday, June 5. Source: ClimateReanalyzer.org
The highest temperature of the past week was 37.8ºC at Bradshaw on Sunday. This is the 2nd highest temperature reliably recorded anywhere in Australia during June, falling just shy of the national monthly record of 37.9ºC at Bradshaw in 2016.
Other notable temperatures from the past week included 37.1ºC at Wyndham on Sunday and 36.7ºC at Jabiru Airport on Saturday, both within 1.5ºC of the national June record.
While Darwin has escaped the hottest weather in the past week, daytime maximum temperatures have been running about 2 to 3ºC above average so far this June.
Looking ahead, cooler southeasterly winds will push into the Top End and Kimberley during the middle of this week, bringing a noticeable temperature drop across the region.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/australias-2nd-highest-june-temperature-on-record/617595
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NSW residents living on the coast between Newcastle and Batemans Bay have been warned wild weather conditions are likely to worsen over the next 24 hours as floods hit the east coast once more.
The state's Emergency Services Minister, Steph Cooke, said the current rainfall and flash flooding is a "life-threatening emergency situation", as thousands of people in low-lying areas across Sydney's south-west have been ordered to leave their homes or risk becoming isolated.
Residents in parts of Camden, Woronora, Chipping Norton, Georges Hall, Lansvale, Moorebank, Warwick Farm, Penrith and Emu Plains are among those affected as an overnight deluge hit swollen waterways.
More than 1400 calls for help to the NSW State Emergency Service (SES) have been made in the last 24 hours, and emergency services have had to make 29 rescues.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/weather-news-sydney-nsw-coast-rainfall-winds-flood-warnings/e4442509-f8f3-4328-8366-38130066f1c1
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The middle of Australia is renowned for its scorching hot summers and year-round blue skies, not for its cold winters.
However, this year the region has been buffeted by rare Antarctic blasts and, as a result, is suffering its coldest spell ever.
The Northern Territory locale of Alice Springs has seen its thermometers sink below 0C (32F) for twelve consecutive mornings now, which, according to the Bureau of Meteorology –in books dating back 81 years– surpasses the previous longest streak of below-zero days set in July 1976 (solar minimum of cycle 19).
The frosty nights aren’t set to abate just yet. either.
“There’s every chance you’re going to smash the record and set a new one each day,” said BoM senior forecaster Billy Lynch, who added: “It’s been below average for so long — I’m sure some people might just appreciate some average conditions for a while.”
As reported by abc.net.au, plumbing businesses around Alice Springs have been fielding dozens of calls a day to repair burst pipes that have frozen overnight.
Project manager at SDA Plumbing, Owen Auricht, said he had to turn away about 50 potential customers one morning because of the huge volume of work: “The climatic conditions when it freezes in Alice causes a lot of mayhem for the town,” he said.
“People don’t think much of it because it only freezes here a couple of nights of the year really. It’s not a common occurrence, but when it does happen it does create a lot of havoc.”
https://electroverse.net/alice-springs-freezes-greenland-refuses-to-melt/
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Many regions of Western Australia are shivering through their coldest starts to July on record, with towns and cities breaking monthly low temperature records left, right and center.
The mercury has dropped to 6C (42.8F) in the tropical town of Kununurra (15S)–its coldest low since 1965, after the same locale endured a record low daytime max of 19.3C (66.7F) on July 1.
Areas across the Kimberly region have also reported below average mean temperatures for the start of July, with fierce, persistent cold snaps registered at Broome, Fitzroy Crossing and Halls Creek, to name just three.
Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster Angeline Prasad said the “extraordinarily low” temperatures were caused by high pressure systems over southern Australia that generated cool, dry south-easterly winds across the tropics; of course, had it been record high temperatures invading the state, Prasad’s explanation would of been far simpler, a two-worder: ‘climate crisis’.
The unseasonably cold conditions have caught some visitors to the state’s north by surprise, reports abc.net.au, many of whom traveled to the region to escape the southern winter.
https://electroverse.net/australias-antarctic-outbreak-intensifies-summer-frosts-sweep-eastern-europe-chilly-june-in-bermuda/
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Unseasonal rain and record-smashing cold is wiping out Queensland’s fruit and vegetable crops.
Prices have soared for fresh produce like lettuce and strawberries in recent weeks; now the cost of other fruits and vegetables are set to follow suit after inclement conditions have torn through the state’s key growing regions, reports freshplaza.com.
Widespread rain and record-busting polar chills have dominated Queensland’s weather in recent days, in what the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has described as abnormal conditions for this time of year.
The BoM, unsurprisingly, is keen to underplay the fierce nature of the freeze, focusing instead on the flooding as that’s more easily correlated to their CAGW narrative; but the data doesn’t lie — hundreds of ‘monthly’ and even a host ‘all-time’ low temperature benchmarks have fallen this week, and many by some measure, too (click below for an in no way comprehensive list).
https://electroverse.net/queensland-crops-wiped-out-by-record-breaking-cold-heavy-snow-hits-argentina-strongest-nlc-activity-in-decades/
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Following its best start to a ski season ever, conditions have anomalously cold and snowy across swathes of Australia.
June 2022 finished with a temperature anomaly of -0.1C below the multidecadal average, according to data supplied by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology–whatever that’s worth.
The unusual chill has extended into July, too, and hundreds of monthly low temperature records have fallen over the past two days alone–particularly across the northeastern state of Queensland, where even a number of all-time benchmarks have been toppled.
List of busted low temperature records, in Queensland alone.
Senior meteorologist Harry Clark said the combination of rain and cold temperatures was “extremely unusual” for July.
“Both in terms of the amount of rainfall and the extent of it, for what is one of our driest months of the year, but also for the extremely low maximum temperatures we’ve seen,” said Clarke. “Temperatures are looking more into what you might expect in Melbourne, or some of those southern capital cities where it’s the typical winter weather.”
Clarke confirmed that “many” cold weather records were broken across Queensland this week, with the standouts for him being Rockhampton peaking at only 12.5C (54.5F) yesterday, and Toowoomba struggling to just 7.6C (45.7F).
Other locales registered equally impressive readings: The Gold Coast Seaway set its coldest day of any month ever yesterday with 14C (57.2F); while further north, in Townsville, residents there suffered their coldest July day ever with a high of 15C (59F).
And most recently, Brisbane, the capital of Queensland –which had already registered its coldest start to a winter since 1904— has, today (July 5), gone and logged its coldest daily high in 22 years, reaching only 12.4C (54.3F).
For reference, Brisbane’s lowest-ever maximum remains the 12C (53.6F) set in July 2000; with the city’s third-coldest July maximum actually being yesterday’s 14.2C (57.6F) … but ‘catastrophic global warming’, you know … ?
And looking ahead, Australia’s Antarctic blast isn’t forecast to abate anytime soon — quite the opposite, in fact:
https://electroverse.net/cold-records-fall-in-australia-solar-activity-controls-climate/
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A large northeast cloudband is stretching across Australia, bring the threat of more rain and flooding to "every other state and territory" apart from Western Australia.
Weatherzone shared satellite images of the weather system writing, "this week's weather will be a perfect example of how a negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) affects Australia."
It comes a day after the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) warned another rain event would exacerbate the risk of flooding in inland New South Wales, "areas that have recently seen significant rainfall".
https://www.9news.com.au/national/weather-update-australia-large-cloudband-stretching-over-australia-brings-threat-of-more-flooding-and-rain-experts-say/2491ded8-ef81-4ec5-9d32-3672832d51db
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With La Niña set to make its return this summer, tiny invisible pollen is expected to cause mayhem for allergy sufferers and asthmatics.
For the first time in 20 years, Australia will experience the weather event for the third consecutive time, meaning wet conditions will continue for millions.
Professor Nick Osborne from the University of Queensland said when pollen is in the air, the body "is tricked into thinking it's something bad and mounts an allergic response".
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Roughly one in five Australians are affected by hay fever each year as suburbs spring into bloom.
Roughly one in five Australians are affected by hay fever each year as suburbs spring into bloom. (9News)
"That's where the redness and swelling and tears comes in," Osborne said.
Roughly one-in-five Australians are affected by hay fever each year as suburbs spring into bloom.
While some believe flowers are to blame, grass is responsible for more than two thirds of the pollen in Brisbane's air.
With a third-consecutive La Niña event, it's heaven for plants but pollen production will be in overdrive, which will result in more and possibly different varieties in the air.
"If the pollen changes, you might have a larger reaction or potentially exacerbate an existing asthma condition," Osborne said.
"It's very hard to predict but we need to be on our guard."
Thunderstorms are also known to whip up pollen spreading it kilometres away.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/hayfever-allergies-la-nina-summer-australia-2022-to-23-pollen/164bdfeb-63c4-419b-ad03-0ad737b49b9e
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Flash flooding, damaging winds, heavy rainfall and large hail are on the radar for NSW as the flooding disaster continues in the north and west of the state.
The Bureau of Meteorology has warned of wild weather for the state's east coast today as many towns remain on alert for flooding.
Meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said NSW will continue to see showers throughout today which could exacerbate flooding.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/nsw-queensland-flooding-weather-warnings-rain-damage/320c837a-163c-474c-9f42-b3601c8759b2
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New South Wales residents are being warned to prepare for possible flooding, as heavy rain and thunderstorms hit the state today.
Western and central NSW are the areas of most concern, as they already have full river systems and very wet conditions on the ground.
The whole of Australia is in for another wet week, with Queensland, Victoria and NSW all expecting about 80 millimetres across each state.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/weather-australia-bureau-meteorology-warning-nsw-flooding-thunderstorms-heavy-rain-forecast/2d33d970-b5cc-47d3-be3d-f0be695b53fc
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Heavy rain and thunderstorms are bringing widespread flooding to New South Wales and parts of Queensland.
The deluge hit Sydney on Saturday afternoon, as residents were told to brace for conditions to intensify throughout the night.
A damaging trough in New South Wales, first unleashed across the state's west, left several regions awash.
Despite only being October, Dubbo has now recorded its wettest year in 49 years, with about 882mm recorded up until 4pm today.
While at Bathurst, racing on Mount Panorama was thrown into chaos, after the Top-10 shootout was cancelled due to the torrential downpour.
The regional city has copped more than a month's worth of rain in a few days.
https://www.sott.net/article/472924-Rain-records-broken-as-heavy-downpours-and-thunderstorms-continue-in-Australia
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Sydney has already had its wettest October in 165 years, marking the third time the New South Wales capital has broken a monthly rainfall record this year.
Since rainfall data collection began in 1858, meteorologists from Weatherzone said they've never seen weather conditions "even come close" to 2022 levels.
The previous 1987 record of 285mm was superseded today when Sydney's running monthly total reached 286.8mm at 10.40am.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/weather-updates-sydney-wettest-october-in-165-years-on-record/a2c36fea-0995-4469-8ad3-25cb1c22be03
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After logging its coldest ‘coreless winter’ (April-Sept) on record in 2021, and routinely suffering colder-than-average months ever since, Antarctica is at it yet again.
Defying AGW Party orders, the mercury across Antarctica has been holding astonishingly low in recent years, and 2022 is proving no different.
“For the second day, Concordia measured a new cold record,” writes Stefano Di Battista on Twitter, a journalist who regularly follows the goings-on at the ‘bottom of the world’: “This fact is extraordinary.”
On Nov 10, the Italian-French station Concordia, located 3,200 meters (10,500 feet) above sea level in the middle of Dome C, on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, touched -59.7C (-75.5F). This comfortably usurped the previous record for the day (the -57C (-70.6F) set just last year), and also, more impressively, it turns out that Antarctica has never before been this cold so late into the season.
Moreover, just as day later the station sank even colder, reaching a minimum of -60.2C (-76.4F) on Nov 11. This was the latest sub -60C registered in Antarctica since at least 1978, when records began–but likely far longer, states Battista in a thread:
https://electroverse.co/antarcticas-latest-60c-76f-reading-ever-recorded-noaa-cold-pool-returns-in-bering-sea-sun/
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Australian’s record-breaking polar outbreak is, for many, still refusing to dissipate.
Adding to the slain *monthly* records from earlier in the week –and to the hundreds felled since the commencement of winter– a myriad more were set on both Wednesday and Thursday, including the handful listed below:
The cherry, however, was undoubtedly taken by Mount Hotham with its Wednesday low of -7C (19.4F). According to BoM record keeping, this is the lowest November temperature ever record in the state of Victoria, usurping the -6.8C, also set at Hotham, in 2006.
https://electroverse.co/victoria-coldest-nov-temp-cold-records-u-s-below-cool-caribbean/
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Gale force winds that uprooted trees, pulled down powerlines and flung roofs from homes are hammering Australia's east today with residents warned to prepare for more destruction.
Yesterday, hundreds of calls for help were made across New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia with gusts of over 130 kilometres an hour recorded at some regions.
The ferocious winds combined with unseasonally brisk tempatures have left many confused just days out from summer, particularly in Victoria where parts of the state recorded lows of just eight degrees this morning.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-nsw-and-south-australia-in-firing-line-for-another-day-as-gale-force-winds-continue-to-cause-chaos/9d98dc67-715d-4244-92cd-f2ee2c5c3eb7
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Another out-of-season polar blast is delivering yet more record snowfall to Australia, despite summer being just days away.
Ski resorts in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania have reported their heaviest falls since the end of the snow season back in October.
Snow Forecast.com
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Just over a week until the start of (meteorological) summertime and over 6 weeks since the end of the 2022 ski season it won't stop snowing in Australia. Another 30cm (foot) today @_hotham @fallscreekok https://t.co/PoGi2fBe5U
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Perisher, NSW reported 25 cm (10 inches) of fresh snowfall overnight Tuesday, which takes the latest powder-dump to a 42cm (16.5 inches).
https://electroverse.co/snow-in-three-aussie-states-days-from-summer-nunavut-cold-record-scandinavia-snow-havoc-india-shivers/
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Well, that’s two frigid seasons in quick-succession now, ABC — a “rare feat”?
Australia’s daytime highs were especially low, the coldest in 30 years for Melbourne, Adelaide, and Canberra. Brisbane was another to endure an anomalously-nippy spring, after shivering through what was its coldest winter on record.
The precipitation has also proved unprecedented, particularly for the south-east, where flooding is ongoing across the Murray-Darling Basin.
The incessant rains, as well as the record, late-season snows, are tied to cooling in the eastern Pacific Ocean. This climatic setup has resulted in a genuinely rare third La Niña (the second since 1950), and it is feared that this phenomenon won’t abate anytime soon, perhaps lasting 5-10 years, a few decades, “or even a century or longer,” so says UW atmospheric scientist, Robert Wills.
And so it stands, despite the models arrogantly decreeing that it would be El Niño conditions that would be the dominate ENSO setup in an ever-warming world, it is in fact its colder sister La Niña that is winning out — the climate models got it wrong, again.
https://electroverse.co/australias-coldest-spring-in-decades-chinas-arctic-outbreak-kills-livestock-herders-workers-korea-shivers-russia-ukraine-woes/
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Australia has set a new biggie of a cold record.
Following a colder-than-average-winter (coldest-ever for the likes of Brisbane) and coldest spring in decades (coldest-ever November for many locales, including Forbes and Ivanhoe), the Aussie continent has now suffered its lowest-ever December (and summer) temperature.
On the Friday morning, Dec 9, the climate station at Perisher Valley touched -7C (19.4F), according to data provided by the warm-mongering Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). This ties the lowest temperature ever recorded in Australia in December (set at Charlotte Pass, Dec 20, 1999), and even more impressively, equals the continent’s lowest ever summer temperature (Perisher Valley, Dec 17, 1979).
https://electroverse.co/australia-coldest-ever-december-and-summer-temp-nov-in-u-s-2f-below-average-cold-weather-warning-in-uk/