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Nice weekend for most. Progs looks pretty dull for the week ahead, then heat returns. Looks dry for most this coming week away from the VIC coast and Tasmania. Going to turn in a very ordinary September for much of Oz. Melbourne is currently on track for driest September on record and near record wa...

Ripper frost here this morning with -1C. After yesterday’s rain it made for a really thick frost which looked almost like snow.

Nice couple of days ahead before a weak front and possible trough. Big split across the progs and progs are also jumpy. Guess new thread time soon.

Nice cold air day here today with sparse but dumping coldies. Plenty with hail. Most spots only got a mm or two because they were small, but a classic winter days. Brilliant sunshine and not much wind meant temps were jumping up and down all day from 11c to 8C and back again 🤣 Max briefly here of 12...

Very welcome 7mm more here today. Wasn’t expecting anything much so very happy :) Very vigorous often icy wind, with temps below 10C most the afternoon. Unfortunately picked a break in the sun around noon and shot up to 13C so won’t go down notably cold. Blizzards on the mountain closed the road abo...

Feral in a good way down here this morning. Hail and rain which is sideway, gales, and finally snow on the mountain to a reasonable level - was about 800m at 8am. That more typical of spring down here :D Still some concerns about a couple of fires in the northeast of Tas with the strong winds and dr...

Solid rainband down here last night. Big falls our west with a few spots topping 50mm and still raining. Local flooding out there. Sparser as you head east. 11mm here, so just shy of 30mm for the thread. Happy with that. Much colder, with snow on the mountain but mostly light falls so far. Record he...

Crazy winds down here topping 100km/hr. Now have a band of heavy rainfall pilling up on the west coast. Precip waters are very high with this system in Tas, so expecting high rainfall rates the next few hours. Wouldn’t be surprised to see some minor flooding in the southwest. Here closer to Hobart t...

Spoke to soon about records in Vic. Gabo Island with 140 years of data has just smashed the September record by an unbelievable 3C. Lots of records being approached or exceed just across the border, including Cabramurra in the Snowy Mountains with 20.0C.

Last warm one today for the sequence. Hot air is mainly north and east of VIC so don’t expect any records today for TAS or VIC, but heat continues over NSW. Winds are getting gusty now ahead of the sharp though moisture starved front. Peaks down here are already gusting to near 110km/hr while expose...

Mildura got to a nasty 36.5c today. 27.8c here. Yuck. Could be a pre-equinox record for Mildura. They did get to 37.7c on Sept 23, 2017. Looking forward to the cool change on Tuesday night. Yep, it’s a Mildura and VIC early season record. Not happened before. Pretty hard to keep track of all the re...

Sneaky front dragging through Bass Strait atm. Might be the odd shower and a bit cooler, though still 4 or more degrees above average. Still warm to hot in the north. We kinda got lucky with this one in southern ares with this weak system introducing slight cooler air for tomorrow compared to earlie...

Looks like top in Vic was 33C at Mildura. Much cooler near the coast as expected. Crazy hot airmass just north of VIC. Quite a few records in South Australia today including 40C at Ceduna. Plenty of early seasons records as well. Tomorrow looks to be a degree or two warmer for most of Vic and TAS. F...

Just shy of 16mm for the past 24 hours here. Very happy with that. Month is still tracking pretty ordinary, but at least we are now double figures 🫣 As picked by EC was even cold enough for a bit of snow on the mountain. Some quite heavy falls in the southwest with the odd spot approaching 100mm wit...

Quite the contrast between Tas and VIC today. We’ve got 850Ts of 0C this morning with thundery bands of rain. Haven’t heard any rumbles but waves of convective showers racing across us in a front which is running along its axis. Heavy perhaps very heavy falls for western parts. Moderate falls elsewh...

what is Melbourne’s record for 20 degree days in September? By the middle of next week we will already be up to 11 !! Most I’ve spotted is 12 including in 2013. Would expect that record will go. 20.2C here today. Nice but quite breezy. Looking at my data it was 18C at 3am. That’s three degrees abov...

Crazy squall line through here this morning. Big gusts and temperature jumped to 17C at 7am. This so so not normal September weather

Gauges showing a mm or two in spots so hopefully it might give us a bit of a drink.

Quite a few September records today. Perisher Valley with 18C probably the most shocking. Here’s a quick list 24.4C King Island 21.2C Cape Sorell 20.5C Liawenee 20.6C Sheffield 22.6C Tunnack 16.7C Mount Baw Baw 16.2C Falls Creek 18.0C Perisher Valley We stayed in a humid misty marine layer down in s...

16.2C at Falls and 15.3C at Mt Buller. Jeepers. The first breaks the old record by 1.7C. The second is an early season record, but short of the whole month record. Shows the uppers are basically record warm with this system already. Being so early in the month the heat is struggling to mix down, plu...

Both EC and GFS speeding up Tuesday’s front. Might cut the warm wave a day short.

Rain for Tas is tending to increase, and Vic might also see something middle of next week. Anything welcome as we face the triple wamy of a positive IOD, developing El Niño and record global temps.

29C in Mildura and 25C at Campania the tops today. TAS number only a couple of degrees below early season records. Had 24C here today which is about 9C above average.

Tomorrow looks similar, perhaps a touch higher.