Have seen some weird weather days, but today's a new one for me. Thick fog and thick smoke all day in the Dandenongs. For much of the time it has been drizzling lightly. All up about a mm to add to the total. Max of just 11C
(after yesterday's 10C).
The city this evening has awful smoke - not sure I've seen worse - buildings in the fog and drizzle. It's also cold. Really - this is just darn weird.
The surface trough is anchored just east of Melbourne where its likely to stay for a couple of days, so hard to see a whole lot changing. Main focus for showers will be the Otways, Gippsland Hill, and perhaps some wrapping into Melbourne from the two bays. Could also be the odd thundery out east.
Probably new thread for the coming strong front on Friday. CMC, UKMO, ACCESS and EC all have moderate falls or better with a cracker of a front mid to late arvo. GFS is a little less keen, but is upping totals compared to earlier runs.
EDIT> Just look at the Dunn’s Hills obs and looks like our 10.3C yesterday is a record here (back to about 1990), and today’s 11.4C is 0.1C above the old record. Geez shame we can’t have a couple of “record” cold days in July so I can brush off those skis in the shed
There would be colder obs lurking earlier but no data for here (there has been reports of snow in the Nongs in January in the past). The Christmas Day 2006 8.6C here would suggest we could get a max of around 9C under “ideal” conditions in early January.