StratoBendigo wrote: ↑Sat May 23, 2020 3:17 pm
It's not common in late-May for Brisbane to be warmer than Bendigo... Some crazy cold temps in Qld today.
Yep, crazy cold for them. It happens occasionally but rarely. Big cloud and rainband with a cold southerly blowing in underneath happens occasionally but many years don’t see it. Quite a few sites are touch and go for May records. 9am temps will come into play as it often warms up pretty quickly up there if the sun comes out tomorrow.
Cold foggy one up here with thick drizzle this arvo. Started to add up with 4mm so far, and falling thick atm. Makes over 50mm for the dates. MTD just shy of 120mm. We still need about 25mm to get our monthly total, as May is our westest month. Might get there, but think we will fall short. Shame as we have had a terrific year so far for rain.
Looks drizzly for another 12 to 24 hours. This is actually being fed by warm air advection with the upper trough/low to our west.
Meanwhile the WA low is deeper but a touch further west. EC has gust to 180km/hr over the oceans northwest of Perth and about 12 hours of gust around Perth in the 100 to 120km/hr range. This is looking serious. If it nudges further east it will be very bad. An intense Tropical Cyclone transition is extremely rare there.