hillybilly wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 6:10 am
Very healthy 33mm in the gauge here, 36mm for the event.
You must have passed 100mm mtd HB? Pretty good going for just past halfway .
Yep, about 105mm. Will add up tonight to confirm. Our average is about 120mm for September, so not far off that.
I've not seen weather like this for years. We are on track for our fifth month in a row above average. In previous positive IODs we've often seen below average nearly every month. Seems we are just south enough to be catching all the fronts, which are missing areas only a few hundred kms north.
Yes, it's certainly unusual. A negative IOD is the only totally reliable indicator of at least average to above average rainfall for us - we've never had a below average -IOD year. Positive IODs aren't quite as tidy an opposite, but they make me nervous... or they used to!
Gordon wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 8:11 am
You must have passed 100mm mtd HB? Pretty good going for just past halfway .
Yep, about 105mm. Will add up tonight to confirm. Our average is about 120mm for September, so not far off that.
I've not seen weather like this for years. We are on track for our fifth month in a row above average. In previous positive IODs we've often seen below average nearly every month. Seems we are just south enough to be catching all the fronts, which are missing areas only a few hundred kms north.
Yes, it's certainly unusual. A negative IOD is the only totally reliable indicator of at least average to above average rainfall for us - we've never had a below average -IOD year. Positive IODs aren't quite as tidy an opposite, but they make me nervous... or they used to!
We're having a below average year YTD though. Just 264 mm since January 1 (mainly because of just 29 mm up to April 30). Average YTD by now is about 390 mm. A mostly -ve AAO in Winter and Early Spring has helped stop this year from being a write-off.
Macedonian wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 2:27 pm
Really cold september day.
Daylight max of 5.2C and back to 4.7C now. July temps
Yeah, cold one here to despite all the sun. Max of just 7.3C. Squeezed out another 0.6mm, so event just on 36mm. About 10mm more than EC which is usually my pick, so a good result.
Our MTD is a very healthy 110mm (15mm below the average). Should get that by Sunday
Couple of cold nights now which are not good for the croppers, then a couple of warm almost hot days.
Brutal night with temp around 0.5-2C and a stiff breeze. 2mm in each of small hail, sleet and possibly snow (though I was in Ballarat when it supposedly snowed so can't confirm).
(Impressive low level snowfalls right through the southern/central highlands of NSW covered in the NSW thread... which is surprisingly quiet? Snow would have settled where the fires near Lithgow were burning a few days ago!)
Nice day up here in the sun, but cold as in the shade. 2.2C to 9.2C. Didn’t see any frost with a stiff southerly despite the chill.
Quite an impressive spring snow event on the eastern side of the great divide to our north. Looks similar to the event earlier in winter, though locally heavier around Goulburn which did well for them with locally 2-3 inches. Classic isothermal layer developing in continuous precip dropping the snow level through latent cooling. At one point there was almost no temperature difference between places like Cooma and the ski resorts in the Snowies.
Gordon wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:34 am
Brutal night with temp around 0.5-2C and a stiff breeze. 2mm in each of small hail, sleet and possibly snow (though I was in Ballarat when it supposedly snowed so can't confirm).
(Impressive low level snowfalls right through the southern/central highlands of NSW covered in the NSW thread... which is surprisingly quiet? Snow would have settled where the fires near Lithgow were burning a few days ago!)
My cousins and a friend were all very close to that bushfire last week at Lidsdale. They had settled snow yesterday and about 30mm of precip so happier i expect.
I had a sprinkling of snow yesterday and a -0.2C min with lots of frost and this morning there is more frost and 2C.
Home- "Shepherd's Bush" at Mt Macedon. 870m
Work- "Bolobek" at Macedon. 430m
I was up there a couple of weeks ago and was struck by how dry it was for the end of winter! Really good to hear they've had that much rain - desperately needed.