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Milder here this morning with nwly winds. Will get a weak low here for Tuesday, with some handy falls in the southwest and lighter falls around Hobart. Quite a mild system.

Cracking front developing for Thursday into Friday as a strong low passes just south of Tasmania. Main features look like rain (particularly northern slopes of VIC and western and northern TAS, followed by a blast of westerly winds. Totals look solid for most areas, but not excessive as the system i...

Cracking white frost here this morning. Nice sunny day ahead. Finally looks like a system to talk about with a strong front around Thursday and Friday. Should produce quite widespread moderate falls across southern South Australia, most of Victoria, NSW and TAS. Should sneak in just before the end o...

Back to highs here. Looks like we are gonna finish the month with almost average rain, but unfortunately going to fall short. That will make five months in a row :( Things have greened up but moisture is quite shallow. With the high getting frosts with 2C yesterday and 1C here today. Thinking around...

Rainband pushing up through the high scenario for eastern Tas today. Could be quite heavy in the northeast where the system stalls for 12 hours. Might yet get to average this month despite no strong fronts. Rest of Oz just having highs highs and more highs. Things will start to move a bit come next ...

Surprising band of rain here today. Pretty widespread 4-8mm so far. Is a warm front which is quite unusual to get one like this so close to the centre of a high. Hope it keeps raining.

Otherwise, most of Oz just sees high, highs and more highs.

Liking mid week here with a sneaky front through the high scenario. Otherwise highs, highs and more highs. Going off EC can lock in the driest May on record for lots of southern mainland Australia. Could also be driest on record for northwest Tasmania which is struggling because there has been basic...

Good to see the tail end of the front scraping southern VIC. Not big totals but when the month has been so dry anything is very welcome. Same front scarped western and far southern TAS with a few mm, but missed most the state. Managed to get up Kunanyi before the front. Just stunning. Was a crisp -3...

8mm in the gauge this morning. Clearing now with crisp 3C off for a hike up the mountain this morning for a foot snow chase.


Progs suggesting we might get a decent east coast low around mid week. Quite liking the look of it. Looks to be mainly a TAS and eastern vic event.

Getting quite a polar blast here this arvo. Lots of coldies with brief thunder and graupel. Few spots in the hill have hade nearly 20mm which is handy. Dries out pretty quickly as one goes inland. Expecting a seriously cold morning with lots of negatives, and will take a long while to warm up with a...

Front here today with a pressure of 1018hPa. Getting a bit, but unfortunately mostly shredded by the ranges as happens when we are on the edge of the westerlies. Cold system but synoptic more typical of early autumn with big highs dominating. TBH progs just keep getting worse. Last nights EC has bas...

Another huge high that takes a week or more to move through. This one is stuck in the bight and a bit further north so southeast Oz has mainly southerlies with some coastal showers for VIC, and better stream showers for TAS. It will get quite cold and with the high pressure will see some decent fros...

Slightly off topic while we wait for something interesting to happen with the mainland weather... The latest climate driver update makes interesting reading http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/ . BOM have upgraded to La Nina watch, while the threat of a positive IOD (my least favourite driver) has b...

Looks like we have another endless high coming up. This one is a bit further north so cooler and shower in Tas, with an icy Friday and Saturday. Rest of Oz almost everywhere sunshine for days. New thread for the monster high :( Record warmth coming up for the west where they are still basically wait...

Sharp front through Tassie this morning, though cleared quickly. Most spots got 2-5mm with heavier falls in the usual spots. Quick 3mm at our place. Another sneaky front tomorrow. Weather for the mainland is going to be dominated by another huge high. Shaping up for a horrible dry May for much of th...

Such a cool 24 hours. Sea fog around Hobart which eventually cleared for the best solar storm in more than 20 years. Had an awesome surf at Clifton Beach - some thumping waves (biggest were easily 4m top to bottom) still conditions and sea fog. Then massive aurora display in the evening. Sky was dan...

snowfall wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 10:49 am Beautiful sunrise HB.

Another 5mm here to take the total to 25mm. That looks to be about it, with rain now mostly contracting to NSW.

Believe it or not but that was the Auroa and not the sunrise. It was astonishing.

Misty drizzly 24 hours around Hobart. Another 2mm here, but 12mm on the top of the mountain. Closes out this part of the event, though a strong front here through on Monday, but most rain will sit over northern and western TAS. Awesome to see good falls through the centre of VIC and eastern Tasmania...

Rainy night for eastern TAS. Wettest day in Hobart for a month, with some higher falls in the hill suburbs… locally topping 25mm. Still raining lighty. Few spots have seen their wettest spell in over a year. Definitely short of a drought breaker but really welcome. Surprised to see central Victoria ...

Had our first short but quite heavy shower earlier. Bizarre experiencing almost stormy weather with the barometer at 1032 hPa :? (I'm weather-confused a lot these days.) We’ve now had about 15mm with a barometer above 1035hPa. Been foggy to sea level for 48 hours and barely stopped dripping on us. ...