Author Topic: Weather in Australia 2022 (Read 13497 times)

Mark · « **Reply #20 on:** June 20, 2022, 07:28:06 AM »

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

Mark · « **Reply #21 on:** July 03, 2022, 04:10:17 PM »

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

Mark · « **Reply #22 on:** July 17, 2022, 07:12:25 PM »

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/

Mark · « **Reply #23 on:** July 17, 2022, 07:15:26 PM »

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/

Mark · « **Reply #24 on:** July 17, 2022, 07:30:44 PM »

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/

Mark · « **Reply #25 on:** July 17, 2022, 07:39:17 PM »

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/

Mark · « **Reply #26 on:** August 12, 2022, 07:11:25 PM »

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

Mark · « **Reply #27 on:** September 25, 2022, 09:41:29 AM »

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".
READ MORE: Officer 'bitten' during ramming of police car after burglary in Melbourne
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

Mark · « **Reply #28 on:** September 25, 2022, 09:46:22 AM »

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

Mark · « **Reply #29 on:** October 06, 2022, 07:20:42 AM »

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

Mark · « **Reply #30 on:** October 09, 2022, 09:22:03 AM »

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

Mark · « **Reply #31 on:** October 24, 2022, 05:59:41 PM »

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

Mark · « **Reply #32 on:** November 17, 2022, 07:16:42 AM »

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/

Mark · « **Reply #33 on:** November 20, 2022, 02:59:06 PM »

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/

Mark · « **Reply #34 on:** November 22, 2022, 06:01:35 PM »

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

Mark · « **Reply #35 on:** November 29, 2022, 07:21:31 AM »

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/

Mark · « **Reply #36 on:** December 02, 2022, 07:19:45 AM »

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/

Mark · « **Reply #37 on:** December 15, 2022, 11:33:22 AM »

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/

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