Weather In Australia 2021.

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WINTER BITES HARD IN AUSTRALIA
A surge of polar air is set to barrel across multiple Aussies states this weekend, driving temperatures well-below winter norms.

Senior BOM meteorologist Philip Perkins said a severe weather warning will be issued across South Australia, with damaging winds, heavy rain/snow, and anomalous-cold set to blast the state as a series of cold fronts pummel the south/southeast:

“A system moving through South Australia on Friday is bringing a burst of cold polar air with it,” said Sky News Weather meteorologist Alison Osborne.
“It’s going to be a very chilly end to the week, with low-level snow forecast.”

According to the latest GFS run (shown below), that snow looks substantial.

The higher elevations of Victoria and New South Wales are on for something of a burial, with accumulations over a meter possible by the end of next week; while 70% of Tasmania is on course to be buried, too.

Even the southern stretches of Western Australia could see a few flurries, around July 24.
https://electroverse.net/winter-bites-australia-u-s-wheat-crops-in-trouble-more-record-gains-on-greenland/

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Followers of Federal politics have seen some pretty flaky stuff come out of Canberra over the years, but Saturday morning brought flakes of the snowy variety to the capital.


The heaviest snow flurries occurred in the city's north around mid-morning on Saturday while the temperature was just a tick under 4°C.

While temps weren't quite freezing, as Weatherzone meteorologist Esteban Abellan explains, the "apparent temperature" (as in, what the temperature feels like taking into account wind and humidity) was as low as -5°C just before lunchtime.

So if it was above zero, how did it snow?

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/heavy-snow-flurries-as-canberra-becomes-canbrrrrrrr/534596

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Temperatures have once again plunged across southeast Australia with reports of snow falling in sub-tropical Queensland. Looking ahead, the BOM expects the cold to intensify as the week progresses, with all-time cold-records tumbling on Thursday.

Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has said a large high moving across southeast Australia, combining with a low in the southern Tasman, was leading to strong winds and intense cold across vast swathes of the country.

Snow has already fallen in the remote Queensland town of Eukey, south of Stanthorpe on July 21 — a rare event.

Weather chaser Ken Kato, who traveled to Eukey from Brisbane, described the wind as “brutal”.

“The windchill was probably next level even for this area’s standards,” he said.

“I was outside for a few minutes at a time, and my hands basically lost all sensation after a few minutes.”

https://electroverse.net/australians-brace-for-coldest-ever-july-temps-as-polar-front-brings-snow-to-queensland/

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he cold front brought a frigid airmass with it that has already brought snow to low levels including in Tasmania (300 metres), Victoria (600 meters) and New South Wales (700 metres in the south). Snow is even a chance above 1200 metres in northern New South Wales on Sunday. The front also delivered plenty of fresh snow to the snow resorts, with New South Wales resorts reporting 45cm on Sunday morning and 20-30cm over the Victorian peaks.

Winds gusted above 100km/h in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania this weekend. The highest gust was in South Australia were Neptune Island recorded a gust of 135km/h on Saturday afternoon. Not far behind was Maatsuyker Island off Tasmania, reaching 130km/h.

The front responsible for the wild weather is now moving away from the mainland however winds will continue to be gusty today. Showers will persist but will be more isolated.

 https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/cold-front-dumps-snow-and-rain-across-the-southeast-/534649

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It was a cold start to Sunday across much of Queensland, especially in southern parts of the Sunshine State where some locations plummeted below zero degrees. 

Minimum temperatures on Sunday morning were mostly three to five degrees below the August average, though there were some spots where it dropped even lower. In the Darling Downs, Oakey dropped six below the average to a frosty –2.3 degrees, making it the third day in a row of sub-zero temperatures - a first for this year. Applethorpe (-1.7), Warick (-1.3) and Dalby (-1.1) also dropped below freezing. 

Some other notable temperatures include:

Roma Airport: -1.1 (5.8 degrees below average)
Kingaroy: -1.8 (5.8 degrees below average)
Gatton: 1.5 (5.4 degrees below average)
Beaudesert: 1.1 (5 degrees below average)
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/southern-qld-shivers-/534736

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Tasmania is shivering today as a blast of polar air drops snow to low levels across the state.

The satellite image below shows a large area of speckled clouds to the south of southeastern Australia on Monday morning.



Image: Visible satellite image captured by the Himawari-8 satellite at 10am AEST on Monday.

These clouds formed in a broad pool of very cold air, which reached Tasmania on Sunday and is today spreading across the Tasman Sea towards New Zealand.

Temperatures across Tasmania today have been feeling particularly icy thanks to the combination of cold air and blustery winds.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/beach-walk-with-snow-views-in-hobart-/534790

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A negative Indian Ocean dipole, the state of sea surface temperatures across the tropical Indian Ocean, will underpin the predicted wet spring.
According to Weatherzone, there are also signs a weak La Niña-like pattern may further enhance rainfall across Australia in spring.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/australia-weather-forecast-news-august-18-wet-spring-predicted-for-parts-of-australia/3c353e07-ba69-439f-b1c4-a29ee7055bf1

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New South Wales residents have been warned that more destructive weather is on the way, after a day of damaging winds and heavy rain across the state.
Weatherzone has forecast another cold and wet day for Sydney, with a forecast maximum of 16C, a few degrees higher than today's maximum of 10.2C.
Tonight, the Bureau of Meteorology said, the heavy winds in parts of NSW and the ACT were set to get stronger, while rain would also stick around.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/weather-nsw-victoria-act-rain-wind-storms-forecast/946f97e1-b607-4e6e-bc2b-5aaa71144a03

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en Domensino, Tuesday August 24, 2021 - 17:27 EST
Sydney may have just had its coldest day since 1984 and its coldest August day since 1962.

A thick blanket of clouds, persistent rain and a cold air mass saw temperatures struggling to reach double digits across much of the Sydney Basin on Tuesday.



Image: Composite satellite and radar over Sydney at 3pm AEST on Tuesday.

Sydney's main weather station at Observatory Hill, located next to the Harbour Bridge, had only reached a post-9am maximum temperature of 10.2ºC by 5pm, based on the day’s one-minute temperature observations.

If this temperature isn't exceeded by 9am on Wednesday, then Tuesday will officially be Sydney's coldest day since 1984 and the coldest for August since 1962.

The last time Sydney had a day this cold, Neville Wran was the Premier of NSW and Bob Hawke was in his second year as Prime Minister.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/did-sydney-just-have-its-coldest-day-in-37-years/534838

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SPRING IN AUSTRALIA BEGINS WITH INTENSE POLAR COLD
Exceptional low temperatures, large hail, and heavy snow — the first week of spring is set to break a myriad of cold records across the Aussie continent.

Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) forecaster Bob Tarr said the cold front would bring a sharp shift to the cold, with temperatures plunging on Thursday.

And if the forecast holds true, continued Tarr, then a host of all-time September low temperature records are expected to fall–particularly in locales within that band of ‘pink’ & ‘purple’ streaking through central and southeastern regions, on Sept 4:
https://electroverse.net/australia-sees-intense-polar-cold-as-greenland-ends-season-above-1981-2010-avg/

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The strongest winds in two years blasted southern Tasmania last night as a powerful cold front barrelled over the state.

The front crossed Tasmania under the cover of darkness, causing a surge of dangerous winds across the state's south, west and central highlands.


Video: Satellite images showing the cold front crossing Tasmania during Monday night, before moving out into the Tasman Sea on Tuesday morning.

The strongest wind gust of the night was 148 km/h at the top of kunanyi / Mount Wellington shortly before 4:30am. This was the mountain's strongest wind in two years and the kind of gust you would typically find in the eyewall of a category two tropical cyclone.

Hobart's strongest gust of the night was 109 km/h at 4am, which was also the city's strongest wind gust in two years.

Other notable gusts from the night included 139 km/h at Maatsuyker Island shortly before 2am, 117km/h at Cape Bruny at 2:30 am and 87 km/h at Sheffield (strongest in two years).

The wind was strong enough to cause damage, with reports of at least one house losing its roof and power cuts affecting thousands of properties. The cold front is now moving out into the Tasman Sea, allowing conditions to gradually ease in Tasmania.

While there will still be some fresh winds around on Tuesday, damaging gusts are no longer likely and the severe weather warning that was in place overnight has been cancelled.

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/tasmania-buffeted-by-winds-as-strong-as-cat-2-tropical-cyclone/534941

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https://www.9news.com.au/national/weather-national-forecast-australia-monday-september-13-temperatures-drop-10-degrees-in-sydney-snow-predicted/4d73952f-a8c8-43b1-aad3-2f62998802dd

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 Alice Springs on Monday night, bringing a Tuesday maximum temperature of only 20 degrees, around 10 degrees colder than the previous day. This will be the 5th such sub-21 degree day so far this September, one of only two Septembers in the last decade to have such a high number of cool days (the last time was in 2016).

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/a-hot-and-cold-heart/535012

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After a run of relatively dry and at times showery weather in recent weeks, a more substantial outbreak of rain and thunderstorms will sweep across Australia eastern and southeastern states next week.

Forecast models are all agreeing that a low pressure trough will interact with moisture-laden air and an unstable atmosphere to produce several days of rain and storms next week.

Models also agree that parts of Queensland, NSW, the ACT, Victoria and SA and Tasmania should be affected by this system.

However, it is too early to know exactly how the rain and storms will play out just yet.

Broadly speaking, clouds and showers will start to increase over eastern and southeastern Australia on Tuesday next week. Rain and storms look to become more widespread from Wednesday and continue until at least Friday and possibly into the weekend.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/rain-and-storms-returning-to-eastern-southeastern-australia/535044

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Nearly all of Australia's capital cities are in for a drenching this week as days of rain and thunderstorms are forecast, with the east and south eastern coast bearing the brunt.
The first major storm of the season is likely and residents in the firing line are being warned to be prepared. They include Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart and Perth.
From tomorrow a series of cold fronts will bring rain, storms and blustery winds to southwestern Australia lasting until at least Friday.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/national-weather-forecast-tuesday-september-28-severe-damaging-thunderstorms-to-hit-australia-east-coast/c9a65d5e-ce72-4733-bea0-e39c5bf0d187

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Victoria and southern NSW are copping a mid-spring wintry blast which looks set to ease off later today before flaring up again briefly midweek.

Many of you would have seen images of the heavy hail showers that coated Melbourne in a layer of snow-like white on Sunday afternoon. This was "small hail" of the type you typically see with cold fronts down south – as opposed to the larger hailstones that often fall in thunderstorms associated with tropical airmasses.


https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/hail-and-snow-in-parts-of-vic-nsw-as-wintry-weather-returns-with-a-vengeance/535121

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https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/outback-queensland-cops-major-drenching-as-bom-signals-early-wet-season/535158
Residents in rural and regional Queensland are celebrating a second night of heavy rain, and hopes are high for an early start to the wet season.


Severe storms brought three times the monthly average of rainfall to some towns in the state's north-west, according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).


Overnight, a super cell triggered warnings for towns in the North West, Central West and Channel Country, including Cloncurry, Mount Isa, Winton and Windorah.


The Monument, in the Shire of Cloncurry, received the lion's share of the deluge, recording 31mm since 9.00am Monday.


Birdsville received 23mm, well above the average of 8mm for October.


"Lots of places are sitting around that 20mm mark," BOM meteorologist Helen Reid said.


The downpour is set to continue over the weekend before dry weather returns, Ms Reid said.


Wet season likely to 'arrive earlier'


Long-time Birdsville resident David Brook said the drenching was a welcome weather change for the town, which he said had recorded about 50mm for the year.


"We had about 8mms in 10 minutes. We've probably only received around 50 mm for the entire year and then today we've had at least 20mm," he said.


The widespread rain comes after the BOM released its annual Severe Weather Outlook report this week, signalling an early start to the wet season.


"It is also likely that the first rains of the northern wet season will arrive earlier than normal for much of northern Australia," BOM senior climatologist Greg Browning said in the report.


"Warm waters to the north of the continent, and the sea surface temperature patterns across the tropical Pacific and Indian oceans, are driving our outlook towards more rainfall for eastern and northern Australia," he said.

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WESTERN AUSTRALIA LOGS FIFTH SNOWFALL OF THE YEAR (SECOND-HIGHEST ON RECORD)
Western Australia logged its fifth snowfall of the year on Tuesday — the second-highest on record.

As reported by abc.net.au, a small snow flurry was captured on video at the summit of Bluff Knoll just after dawn on Tuesday as the remnants of a powerful cold front moved across the south coast:

Snow has now been recorded on the Stirling Range peak –the highest in southern WA at 1,099m (3,600ft)– in the months of May, July, August, September and October.

The highest-ever number of WA snow flurries ever in a single year was six, in 2016 — all on Bluff Knoll. Five has been recorded on just one previous occasion — back in 1968, and at different locations across the state. This is confirmed by a Bureau of Meteorology spokesperson, who said: “The last time we had five recorded snow events was over half a century ago in 1968.”
https://electroverse.net/w-australia-logs-fifth-snowfall-of-the-year-foot-of-spring-snow-hits-nz-record-cold-sweeps-seattle-half-of-kashmir-is-white/

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Ben Domensino, Wednesday October 20, 2021 - 14:33 EDT
One day after record-breaking hail fell near Mackay, more supercell thunderstorms are again assaulting parts of central Queensland and northern NSW today.

An outbreak of intense thunderstorms over central Queensland on Tuesday afternoon saw 16-centimeter hailstones smashing into the ground at Yalboroo, to the north of Mackay.

The image below shows some of the monstrous hail that fell from one of Tuesday's thunderstorms.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/warning-for-giant-hail-in-qld-and-nsw-on-wednesday/535218

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Temperatures are set to surge beyond 40C in parts of South Australia today as their neighbours just over the border to the west battle an unseasonal chill.
The topsy-turvy weather is the result of two different systems passing across Australia's southern coastline this week.
The South Australian town of Oodnadatta is set to reach 41C today, which will be the hottest temperature of the spring season so far, Weatherzone said.
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The town, with a population of 200, became famous after recording the country's highest temperature in 1960 of 50.7C.
Temperatures won't be as high in Adelaide, but will still reach around 30C.
The hot weather is the result of northerly winds that are dragging down hot dry air, according to Weatherzone.
And while temperatures are expected to climb in the morning, South Australians are also bracing for a potential storm that could hit the region in the afternoon or on Thursday.