Post by greysrigging on Aug 10, 2022 20:51:51 GMT -5
Rather than rate the whole climate of Melbourne ( crap as it is ), let's rate a Melbourne summer. Mind you a Melbourne summer has features of autumn, winter and spring, and often all on the same day or 2.
Aussie rock band Crowded House even wrote a song about a Melbourne summer titled '4 Seasons In One Day'.
The good old Wikibox of climate data simply can't show the depths of despair locals feel during a Melbourne summer.
As a kid growing up in country Victoria, it was a big deal for the family to make a trip to 'the big smoke'. Lucky we had a station wagon, because even for a day trip you needed to carry clothing for summer, autumn, winter and spring.
Climate of Melbourne:
"Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria and second largest city in Australia, has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb)[1][2] and is well known for its changeable weather conditions. This is mainly due to Melbourne's geographical location. This temperature differential is most pronounced in the spring and summer months and can cause strong cold fronts to form. These cold fronts can be responsible for all sorts of severe weather from gales to severe thunderstorms and hail, minor temperature drops, and heavy rain. The city experiences little humidity in summer, except at the end of hot spells following thunderstorms and rain."
Summer:
Melbourne summers are notable for occasional days of extreme heat, which have increased in frequency since 2005.[8] This occurs when the synoptic pattern is conducive to the transportation of very hot air from central Australia over to the south-east corner of the continent. The inland deserts of Australia are amongst the hottest areas on earth, particularly the inland parts of north-west Australia.
Every summer, intense heat builds starting in the Pilbara district of Western Australia around October/November and spreading widely over the tropical and subtropical inland parts of the continent by January. In the summer months, the southern part of the continent straddles the westerly wind belt to the south and the subtropical high-pressure ridge to the north. The intense heat buildup occurs where high pressure is highly dominant in the upper levels of the atmosphere over the tropics and subtropics of Australia in summer allowing for a huge area of stable atmospheric conditions to predominate.
On occasion, a strong cold front will develop in summer and bring the westerlies further north than their mean summer position. On these occasions, north-west winds will develop ahead of the cold front's passage and sometimes these can be very strong, even gale force. When this occurs the hot air from the inland is dragged right down over south-east Australia, occasionally even as far as southern Tasmania.
As this air mass is carried entirely over the continental land mass it remains unmodified, i.e. it does not pick up additional moisture from a body of water and retains most if not all of its heat. On these occasions, the normally temperate parts of southern Victoria, including Melbourne, can experience the full fury of the desert climate albeit only briefly as the cold front responsible usually passes through relatively quickly afterwards allowing cool southerly winds from the southern ocean to replace the hot desert air. The highest temperature recorded in Melbourne city was 46.4 °C (115.5 °F), on 7 February 2009.
Recorded extremes (From Melbourne Regional Office):
Hottest temperature: 46.4 °C (115.5 °F), 7 February 2009
Coldest temperature: −2.8 °C (27.0 °F), 21 July 1869
Hottest Minimum: 30.5 °C (86.9 °F), 1 February 1902
Coldest Maximum: 4.4 °C (39.9 °F), 4 July 1901
Wettest month: 238.2 mm (9.38 in), February 1972
Wettest 24 hours: 113.4 mm (4.46 in), 3 February 2005
Here are the Melbourne Airport and Melbourne City Wikiboxes.
So here are some summers ( max temps ) for your perusal.....chosen randomally so there is no bias as to goodness or badness.....just normal Melbourne summers so beloved/despised by the locals.
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Aussie rock band Crowded House even wrote a song about a Melbourne summer titled '4 Seasons In One Day'.
The good old Wikibox of climate data simply can't show the depths of despair locals feel during a Melbourne summer.
As a kid growing up in country Victoria, it was a big deal for the family to make a trip to 'the big smoke'. Lucky we had a station wagon, because even for a day trip you needed to carry clothing for summer, autumn, winter and spring.
Climate of Melbourne:
"Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria and second largest city in Australia, has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb)[1][2] and is well known for its changeable weather conditions. This is mainly due to Melbourne's geographical location. This temperature differential is most pronounced in the spring and summer months and can cause strong cold fronts to form. These cold fronts can be responsible for all sorts of severe weather from gales to severe thunderstorms and hail, minor temperature drops, and heavy rain. The city experiences little humidity in summer, except at the end of hot spells following thunderstorms and rain."
Summer:
Melbourne summers are notable for occasional days of extreme heat, which have increased in frequency since 2005.[8] This occurs when the synoptic pattern is conducive to the transportation of very hot air from central Australia over to the south-east corner of the continent. The inland deserts of Australia are amongst the hottest areas on earth, particularly the inland parts of north-west Australia.
Every summer, intense heat builds starting in the Pilbara district of Western Australia around October/November and spreading widely over the tropical and subtropical inland parts of the continent by January. In the summer months, the southern part of the continent straddles the westerly wind belt to the south and the subtropical high-pressure ridge to the north. The intense heat buildup occurs where high pressure is highly dominant in the upper levels of the atmosphere over the tropics and subtropics of Australia in summer allowing for a huge area of stable atmospheric conditions to predominate.
On occasion, a strong cold front will develop in summer and bring the westerlies further north than their mean summer position. On these occasions, north-west winds will develop ahead of the cold front's passage and sometimes these can be very strong, even gale force. When this occurs the hot air from the inland is dragged right down over south-east Australia, occasionally even as far as southern Tasmania.
As this air mass is carried entirely over the continental land mass it remains unmodified, i.e. it does not pick up additional moisture from a body of water and retains most if not all of its heat. On these occasions, the normally temperate parts of southern Victoria, including Melbourne, can experience the full fury of the desert climate albeit only briefly as the cold front responsible usually passes through relatively quickly afterwards allowing cool southerly winds from the southern ocean to replace the hot desert air. The highest temperature recorded in Melbourne city was 46.4 °C (115.5 °F), on 7 February 2009.
Recorded extremes (From Melbourne Regional Office):
Hottest temperature: 46.4 °C (115.5 °F), 7 February 2009
Coldest temperature: −2.8 °C (27.0 °F), 21 July 1869
Hottest Minimum: 30.5 °C (86.9 °F), 1 February 1902
Coldest Maximum: 4.4 °C (39.9 °F), 4 July 1901
Wettest month: 238.2 mm (9.38 in), February 1972
Wettest 24 hours: 113.4 mm (4.46 in), 3 February 2005
Here are the Melbourne Airport and Melbourne City Wikiboxes.
So here are some summers ( max temps ) for your perusal.....chosen randomally so there is no bias as to goodness or badness.....just normal Melbourne summers so beloved/despised by the locals.
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