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Re: Spring weather roller coaster: September 17 to 24

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Shocking wind, raised dust, and heat here this afternoon. Feral.

Cooling down slowly now...
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Re: Spring weather roller coaster: September 17 to 24

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First 20C day since autumn today (22C) and wind not as bad as I expected (except for a bit gusty around the change) so a fairly pleasant day. 10C now; looks like today was the aberration and back to cool/ cold spring for the foreseeable future.
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Re: Spring weather roller coaster: September 17 to 24

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A quick list of long term records across Vic from yesterday. Also not on this list are early season records at plenty of sites including Scoresby, Melbourne and Moorabbin. It looks like about 80% of NSW also saw a new record :? My gut feeling is that makes it one of the most extreme heat events to impact Australia (and of course as you get longer records it should get harder to break records).

· Mildura Airport 37.7 (previous 37.4 on 22 Sep 2003)
· Kyabram 32.4 (previous was 32.2 on 12 Sep 2009)
· Tatura Inst Sustainable Ag 32.4 (previous was 31.7 on 27 Sep 2008)
· Morwell 31.4 (previous was 31.0 on 27 Sep 1987)
· East Sale 33.9 (previous was 33.0 on 30 Sep 1980)
· Bairnsdale Airport 35.4 (previous was 32.6 on 26 Sep 1987)
· Gabo Island Lighthouse 31.2 (previous was 31.0 on 30 Sep 1973)

Vic is so lucky we've had good rainfall. There is a couple of bushfires out east, but they appear to be caused little harm :?

We maxed out at 25.8C yesterday. Probably and early season record, but my records too short to know. Quite amazing that Saturday a week before we woke to snow showers, and yesterday the kids we're in the pool :o

Much cooler now and back to a more normal sort of week. Does look showery, and thinking most 2-5mm or so in the north and 5-25mm south. Synoptics look quite good, but there continues to be pretty poor feed of moisture. The Indian Ocean is warming up to our northwest so hoping to see moisture in feeds pick up soon.
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Re: Spring weather roller coaster: September 17 to 24

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Absolute downpour from the current rainband - 4.5mm in no time. (Of course the stupid Broadmeadows radar doesn't show it...)

Now down to 6C and blowing hard as it seems to do incessantly these last several weeks, but I guess that's the equinox for you. It will be a different dress code working outside all day today!
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Re: Spring weather roller coaster: September 17 to 24

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Only a mm or so from the band of showers this morning. Was quite heavy at times driving into the city.
A few showers popping up around the place this afternoon, risk of a rumble in them, particularly about coastal parts.
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Yet ANOTHER windy day here in the pathetic boredom zone with bugger all rain. :roll:
Sprinkler is back in full usage now.
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Re: Spring weather roller coaster: September 17 to 24

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1mm in FC today. Cooler and windy, but air is still very dry so showers are sparse. I expected them to thicken up as the day went on today but not to be.

Looks like more showers next 36 hours. And doesn't really clear up properly this week with another low coming for mid week. Probably time for another thread.

Drove up to Sydney today. Was heavy showers around Strathbogie, then got drier and drier. It's is brown and crispy beyond Yass. Sydney's very dry, probably the driest I can recall it. They could well score their driest September on record, following on the back of low rainfall for a couple of months.

One for the "you have got to be kidding file..." Coffs Harbour, scored 38.8C today, which is 3.6 above their previous September record :o :? I used to think that the north coast of NSW had the best climate in OZ, avoiding the extremes but that's not been the case this year :?
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Re: Spring weather roller coaster: September 17 to 24

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Rainfall in Tasmania since 9 am Mt Victoria 25 mm, Wynyard 24 mm, Mt Barrow 21 mm, Devonport 14 mm, Nunamara 17 mm, Sheffield 10 mm, Scottsdale 10 mm, Low Head 5.4 mm, Hobart 0.6 mm. The Launceston rain gauge appears not to be working as it is on 0 mm.
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Good to see Tasmania getting that rain Tassiedave. Been a wierd couple of years down there with lots of heat and dry punctured by floods so more normal but good rainfall must be welcome :D

Finally getting into a decent stream of showers this morning. Had nearly 1mm so far. Showers are heavy so could add up quite quickly if you get under a proper shower.
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Re: Spring weather roller coaster: September 17 to 24

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Another good 24hrs here with a further 6.5mm in the gauge. Brings us to 81 mm mtd, so comfortably over our September average - looks like being a good month for rain again. 6C, so must be snowing (or about to) on the Alps.

(It is certainly weird hearing all the apocalyptic reports from not that much further north while we enjoy a wet, cold, winter/spring. Sydney looks baked :? ).
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V Windy. V Cold. V Wet overnight
Not perfect holiday weather @ Port Welshpool
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4mm in FC for today, so about 6mm for the thread. Pretty underwhelming... was expecting about five times that.

New thread for the week ahead with a sequence of troughs and then a slow to clear southerly. Meanwhile northern NSW and Qld going to get another record breaking heatwave :o
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Zero and frosty here this morning. Impressive for late September on a sloping hill top site.
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Re: Spring weather roller coaster: September 17 to 24

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Decent frost here too this morning. Just under 0 degC. It's all getting a bit stressful for the plants with no rain, a blast of 33 degC heat, and sub-zero a few days after...
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