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Post by desiccatedi85 on Jan 26, 2023 19:13:51 GMT -5
January 12th had some awesome frontal thunderstorms here as a squall line pushed thru the area. Just southwest of Metro Atlanta, 10 tornadoes have been confirmed to have touched down, including a 32-mile EF3 with 150mph peak winds ( NWS Link). This is a 34 second clip of my footage from that storm which was not as severe here. Still had some 50mph+ gusts, torrential rains, and frequent thunder and lightning.
Lovely radar
Creek running high
Handsome winter rains
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Post by greysrigging on Jan 27, 2023 16:43:03 GMT -5
Unusual Location For Nation's Hottest Spot ( source: Weatherzone ) You'd normally expect the hottest location in Australia on a summer afternoon to be somewhere in Central Australia or the northwest corner of WA, rather than on Australia's southern coastline. Indeed it was around this time last year that Onslow in WA's Pilbara region recorded 50.7°C, equalling Australia's previous all-time hottest reading at Oodnadatta in outback SA. But if the right weather set-up occurs, the coastline around the Great Australian Bight can be hotter than anywhere else in the country, and that’s what's happening this Friday afternoon. As you can see on the chart below which shows live temps at 2:20 pm AEDT (1:40 pm in SA), it was 44°C in Ceduna, the coastal town of 3,500 residents on the far northwest edge of the Eyre Peninsula. Nowhere else was close. A little later in the afternoon, the mercury reached 44.6°C. Today's reading of 44.6°C is 16 degrees above Ceduna's January average max, and its first 40-degree day this year. Nearby, Wudinna reached 43.6°C, 10 above average; and Minnipa 43.5°C, its hottest day in two years. Interestingly, this part of the country has seen some of the nation's hottest temps ever recorded. Nullarbor (a tiny SA spot near the WA border) and Eucla (a WA town just over the SA border) have both come perilously close to 50°C in the past, with temps in the top 10 highest ever recorded for Australia. Ceduna's record temp is 48.9°C, which is pretty remarkable for a weather station so close to the coast it probably gets salt spray. Why is this region so hot? Simply speaking, hot air masses always build up over the interior of the country in summer, but on occasion with northerly or northwesterly winds, temps will be even hotter near the coast due to the lower elevation of coastal districts. Most parts of Central Australia are at least a few hundred metres above sea level. If they weren't, it's likely that we'd see many more days in excess of 50°C in the nation's red heart. Meanwhile as you can see on the heat map below, the heat is biting in the Great Australian Bight this Friday afternoon, and it’ll move east too in the next day or so. Adelaide is sweating through an afternoon in the high 30s and a very uncomfortable night lies ahead with minimum temps in the mid 20s before cooler air moves in on Saturday. Melbourne will feel the heat with a top of 35°C on Saturday, though it appears likely that a dry southerly change will move through to cool things down before the Australian Open women’s final starts at 7:30 pm. Enjoy your weekend.
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Post by greysrigging on Jan 29, 2023 1:19:22 GMT -5
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Post by greysrigging on Jan 29, 2023 6:09:00 GMT -5
SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM!!! NASTY WINTER SYSTEM TO SMASH SOUTH EASTERN AUSTRALIA WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 1ST TIL SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4TH ( source: JWC ) Good afternoon, well looks like a fete of complete a huge upper low surface low will develop in the wake of a strong cold front later this week This is a very strong wintry system for most months of the year let alone early February with some alpine areas in Victoria, NSW and Tasmania may see snow close to 50cms!! Snow May also fall in places that rarely falls in February especially early February such as the central tablelands of NSW and even a glimmer of hope for the northern tablelands Some places may see temperatures 15-18 below average at the 850 hPa mark for this time of the year which is roughly 1500 metres above ground which gives an indication of how cold it may get. Plenty of wind, showers, storms, small hail as well. especially for Victoria and Tasmania. SA will also be impacted. Showers and severe storms may develop with the through ahead of the system Wednesday or Thursday across eastern QLD and eastern NSW. For more information ℹ️ keep an eye out for all warnings Images are taken by GFS for Friday 11am February 3rd - JWC Beerbloke's dream summer forecast !! A bit more balanced forecast from Weatherzone... JWC likes to 'embellish' his forecasts.... "Wintery Weather On The Way For Southeast Australia" Although it will be hot across much of the continent, it will be cool and cloudy over the southeast this week becoming showery and windy later in the week. After reaching 34.2°C yesterday, Melbourne won’t see a day reach 25°C during this week. Friday 3rd will be the coldest day, not even reaching 20°C. Why will Friday be so cool? A cold pool of air about 5-6 km above the surface will drift from near Antarctica towards Tasmania. This will help to develop a low-pressure system at the surface with a cold front. The cold front should cross southeast Australia on Thursday into Friday, dragging up cold air from the south during Friday. Together with cloud cover and cooling showers and thunderstorms, this will make Friday as much as 10-15°C cooler than average across a large area as shown in the purple and pink shading below. There may even be a dusting of snow over the Victorian and NSW alps and Tasmania’s highlands. The low-pressure system will also cause gusty winds from the west and southwest to howl across southeast SA, Vic and over the NSW ranges on Friday, possibly reaching 80-90km/h over the NSW ranges. The wind chill factor will also make it feel several degrees colder than the actual temperature. There’s an interesting comparison for Melbourne this week with a week in January 100 years ago. The Bureau of Meteorology’s records show that January 14, 1923, reached a sweltering 38.2°C but January 18, 1923, struggled to a chilly 14.6°C (the lowest maximum January temperature record). According to a news story from the Argus on 19 January 1923: “Seldom have the vagaries of Melbourne weather been more pronounced than during the last few days.” They went on to say that people “shivered in overcoats and sought shelter from the driving rain and cold winds which made conditions out of doors unpleasant.” According to the Bureau of Meteorology at the time, the mid-summer cold snap was due to “a very deep atmospheric depression over the south-eastern part of the continent.” Which is the same kind of weather system that will cause this week’s cold snap. Although the temperatures in the southeast this week won’t be as uncomfortable as those in January 1923, the vagaries of the weather there will be on display and people might just wonder where summer went. However, it will be a different story further north across northeast NSW and eastern QLD as the low and an associated trough bring hot, dry, and windy conditions. So, wherever you are, stay up to date with the latest forecasts at Weatherzone.
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 29, 2023 23:13:24 GMT -5
Major cold snap finally ended the monotony of the past two weeks. After 3 AM, it didn’t get above 5 (-15 c) today, over 40 f below average. Also got some snow yesterday and overnight which was nice.
Today’s weather is way better than the nonstop 30s we had, quite interesting. And then temps recover nicely with mid 40s returning late week.
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Post by dunnowhattoputhere on Jan 30, 2023 20:03:04 GMT -5
Turning into a poor winter for snow here - just a single dusting. No sign of that changing either.
A good winter for hard frosts though, with several nights falling below -5C. Nothing exceptionally cold though - even London has been colder than us (it fell below-8C at Heathrow last week, the coldest temperature there since 2010). Lowest here was -6C in December.
I’m ready for spring now anyway. If February isn’t going to deliver snow then I’ll take a repeat of Feb 2019.
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 31, 2023 0:46:36 GMT -5
Very cold again today, high was just 7 (-14 c), the 2nd straight single digit high.
Today’s high was the coldest in January since 1998 and the first time since 1985 that two months in a winter had single digit highs.
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Post by srfoskey on Jan 31, 2023 0:58:49 GMT -5
It was cold here today as well, but the high was around 22°F (-6°C), so not too unusual for a cold winter day here. We got a small amount of sleet that stuck to the roads, but not enough to look pretty. There's a chance of more sleet tomorrow, but the latest model runs have been coming in drier, so it is looking less likely.
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Post by Ariete on Jan 31, 2023 14:31:52 GMT -5
Last day of January, and the SW corner, Helsinki and the Åland islands are still without a permanent snowpack:
Köppen Schmöppen Oceanic Finland incoming.
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Post by Doña Jimena on Jan 31, 2023 15:52:23 GMT -5
High 4.0C with some sunshine. January 2023 has been warm.
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Post by Ariete on Jan 31, 2023 16:13:10 GMT -5
High 4.0C with some sunshine. January 2023 has been warm.
GOOD, because Putin was supposed to freeze us all into our homes, and then we would rise up against our governments.
What's your indoor temperature now? 22C here.
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Post by Doña Jimena on Feb 1, 2023 1:18:00 GMT -5
High 4.0C with some sunshine. January 2023 has been warm.
GOOD, because Putin was supposed to freeze us all into our homes, and then we would rise up against our governments.
What's your indoor temperature now? 22C here.
Probably same temperature. But situation is worse in Latvia. Heating is 3 times higher than a year before, huge inflation. I am not complaining, but I don't see a bright future here.
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Post by Ariete on Feb 1, 2023 1:47:59 GMT -5
Probably same temperature. But situation is worse in Latvia. Heating is 3 times higher than a year before, huge inflation. I am not complaining, but I don't see a bright future here.
It will get better.
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Post by Babu on Feb 1, 2023 2:15:47 GMT -5
Once again, we're shown the difference between having the bothnia sea to the west vs the east. Snow free on the east side vs 60-80 cm snow on the west side of the sea. Reason? Weather that travels over the sea will be cold easterlies in Sweden, bringing sea-effect snow, whereas weather that travels over the sea to Finland will be mild westerlies, bringing thawing temperatures at high wind speeds, melting snow faster. We can get higher temps due to föhn and being closer to the warm atlantic westerlies, but as we've got rocky and foresty terrain to the west, the wind speeds are lower, making the snow melt slower than the high speed winds that travel to Finland over the sea (and get to continue travelling inland over flat fields).
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Post by Doña Jimena on Feb 1, 2023 7:28:31 GMT -5
Probably same temperature. But situation is worse in Latvia. Heating is 3 times higher than a year before, huge inflation. I am not complaining, but I don't see a bright future here.
It will get better.
During my lifetime? 1 February and the snow is back in Riga.
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Post by Ariete on Feb 1, 2023 7:34:52 GMT -5
Yes, during your lifetime, lol. Maybe starting already next year.
Nice wintry atmosphere there.
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Post by jetshnl on Feb 1, 2023 16:10:48 GMT -5
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Post by desiccatedi85 on Feb 1, 2023 18:23:48 GMT -5
Yes, we get it, Texas is big.
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Post by greysrigging on Feb 1, 2023 23:18:22 GMT -5
Summer Snow Imminent As Freezing Cold Airmass Arrives ( source: Weatherzone ) Here it comes: a brief burst of wintry weather set to lash southeastern Australia over the next 24 hours or so. See the huge speckled airmass down in the Great Australian Bight? It's a feature which indicates cold, polar air. As Weatherzone meteorologist Ben Domensino wrote a couple of years ago: "These clouds form when very cold air moves over a relatively warm area of ocean, causing a large number of individual cumulus clouds to develop over a broad area. Each of these cloud cells can produce rain, hail, snow and thunderstorms, with patches of clear sky in between." The polar airmass has already passed through southern South Australia, leaving unseasonably cold temperatures in its wake. For example: Mt Lofty in the Adelaide Hills was just 10.9°C at midday on Thursday, and the way things are going, it may not exceed that by much today. The average February maximum at the 685m-elevation weather station is 22.5°C. Adelaide was just 19.8°C at midday, and it also looks unlikely to gain more than a degree or two on top of that. Its average February maximum is 28.5°C. Further down into SA's southeast corner, Mt Gambier was just 13°C at midday. Just over the Victorian border in Warrnambool, temps dropped from 18°C at midday to just 12°C at 12:30 pm, indicating both the strength of the cold airmass, and the location of the cold change early on Thursday afternoon. So what happens next? It gets increasingly chilly across most of Victoria, southern NSW, and the ACT as the front marches east. You can see its progress in the loop below, with that tell-tale speckle cloud surging northwards. Virtually the whole of Victoria will see top temperatures below 20°C on Friday, which is significantly below average for this time of year. Light snow showers can also be expected for around 24 hours from Thursday evening in both the Victorian Alps and the Snowy Mountains of NSW. The snow level should be around 1500 metres with temps dipping well below zero for at least two nights. How unusual is a cold summer outbreak? If you're a regular reader of the Weatherzone news feed, you'll know that summer snow in the high country of Vic, Tas, and NSW is far from uncommon. There were several snowfalls in early December 2022, and while airmasses with Antarctic origins penetrate north less frequently in late summer, it still happens. The weather right now is evidence of that. Meanwhile despite the cold air, the bushfire danger remains serious in at least four states, due to dry vegetation and strong winds accompanying the passage of this front.
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Post by greysrigging on Feb 2, 2023 4:48:38 GMT -5
This is why Aussies prefer the northern regions of the Continent....
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