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2021 Possible upcoming weather events

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2021 Possible upcoming weather events

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Looking out forward for rain prospects for the western and Nth central areas of Vic, that need rain now:

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Nice to see the chance of a broadscale low pressure system to follow the heels of HB’s current thread for rain chances this week. Something to watch.
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Latest model runs from EC, GFS & CMC have downplayed rain prospects from next weeks "long travelled" low pressure system, CMC is typical:

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Those at Corryong will be on the watch though!
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According to EC, there is a warming trend over Antarctica @ 10Hpa(starting over the area south of Oz) in the next 10 days. So far, temps increasing by 10C. Could lead to decent cold outbreaks in 2-3 weeks time.
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Looks likely on latest model runs.

Perth hydrologists will be ruing the decision in the late 90's, to "manage" dam inflow estimates based on only a rolling 10 year average by the end of this month IMO.

Too many listened to "our Ross" IMO.
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Here are a couple of images from ECMWF. Temps at 10HPA over Antarctica:

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Clearly a warming event appears to be underway over the Australian part of Antarctica. Possibly leading to a significant cold outbreak 2nd half of August.
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This forecast for 2nd August shows the trend continuing. Note increase in temps above the pole also.
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Interesting, well for the first part of August GFS is showing a low pressure system to traverse from Perth to Victoria, to arrive later next weekend. It also dreams up a high pressure zone to develop over the Territory and traverse to QLD mid latitude coastal border a day ahead of the low systems arrival in Vic. This would advect a lot of tropical moisture from the increasingly active Indian Ocean to SE Aus at about the right time.

Something to watch either fritter away in the westerly belt, or perhaps even enhance rain in Vic, .....all about the timing eh?:

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I am closely watching the Polar Vortex for signs of distortion or splitting - that is when the 2-3 week clock starts ticking!
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