Summer 2022 NH / Winter 2022 SH Discussion Thread.

Not just a downgrade but a massive one at that, 34C in London to 15C.

Australian capital cities on a winters afternoon 4.00pm

Well that's just sad, 80s and even 90s turning into 50s and lower 60s. Goes to prove why anything beyond maybe 3 days is really fantasy range.

11-12 C highs in central England in mid-June. Hopefully that doesn't come to fruition!

Brutally Cold Temps, Even By Tassie Standards.
( source: Weatherzone )


Tasmanians are accustomed to cold temperatures, but even by local standards, this Sunday is a seriously chilly day.
A strong southwesterly flow straight with its origins in Antarctica is lashing the entire state, meaning that daytime temps across all but the state's far north and northeast are languishing in single-digits in the "heat of the day" – which is generally around 2 pm in early winter.
Mountain districts are obviously much colder, with a temp of -3.2°C at 2 pm on kunanyi/Mt Wellington above Hobart as we were writing this story. You can see the 2 pm temps recorded across Tasmania below.



As you'd imagine with this polar weather having been around for a few days now, heavy snow has accumulated on Tasmania’s highland and mountain districts, with a snow level as low as 400 m above sea level earlier today.
This is the Sunday arvo scene at the tiny club-operated ski field of Mt Mawson, where volunteers have cranked up the rope tows this weekend with an estimated 50 cm snow depth. Excuse the blurry picture, as it comes directly from a snow cam.



But perhaps the most remarkable thing about Sunday's weather is the cold temps at sea level, especially in the southern two-thirds of the state.
Hobart is having just its second day of the year when the maximum will fail to reach double digits – the year's coldest day to date was June 7 with a maximum of 8.0°C.
Today's Hobart high temp to this point was 8.5°C just after midday, and it doesn't look like reaching that level again.


Image: This pic of kunanyi/Mt Wellington was actually taken one or two storms before the current one, but it's foggy and not very photogenic up there today so we thought you'd appreciate it. Source: James Ikin Instagram.

Across the southern coast of Tasmania, it's exceptionally cold. Maatsuyker Island, just off Tassie's SW tip, was 6.3°C at 2:20 pm, but factoring in the wind chill with the constant winds around 50-60 km/h, it felt like -5.9°C. Those are some seriously nasty conditions at sea level.
Speaking of winds, Weatherzone meteorologist Andrew Casper-Richardson told you yesterday that gusts had exceeded 100km/h over exposed parts of the Apple Isle in the last 24 hours, with more on the way.
Maatsuyker Island endured gusts of a staggering 130km/h early on Saturday morning. During the night, the apparent temp (the official name for the "feels-like" temp) dipped to -14.2°C. By those standards, today's conditions are quite moderate! All weather is relative, after all.
The good news is that winds should moderate quite quickly with temps rising by several degrees throughout the new week right across Tasmania.

Dammm.... next weekend's weather looks horrifically bad.

First real thunderstorm of the year rolling through right now! Didn't have much of a thunderstorm season last year with how dry it was, we'll see if this year manages to top it. It's been a lot wetter so far.

45 F (25 C) difference between here and Duluth right now. Lake Superior can create some interesting differences during late spring/early summer heat waves in MN.

Torrential rain has brought more than a monthly norm of precipitation to eastern Latvia in the last two days.


Satellite picture from 14 June 2022



Floods in Alūksne, NE Latvia

I don't even like heat but if I could afford it I'd take a short notice plane ride to central western France just to experience 43°C, even if it's uncomfortable. To have such temps so close to our shores is amazing, even if Sheffield won't even hit 30.