NH Fall/SH Spring 2023 Discussion Thread

Gotta love a Melbourne Spring:
The last 5 days:

The next 7 days:

Spring storms trigger 250,000 lightning strikes over SE Australia
( source: Weatherzone )

An outbreak of early-spring thunderstorms has caused prolific lightning over Australia’s southeastern states during the last 24 hours.
The animation below shows lightning spreading across central and southeastern Australia on Thursday and Friday morning. These storms were triggered by a large pool of cold air from the Southern Ocean clashing with much warmer air over the Australian continent.

Weatherzone’s Total Lightning Network detected around 245,000 lightning strikes within an 800 km radius of Bourke during the 24 hours ending at 9am AEST on Friday. The bulk of these strikes were over NSW, although lightning also occurred in Qld, Vic, the ACT, Tas, SA and the NT on Thursday and Friday.
This week’s thunderstorms are a taste of the stormy weather that will becomes more prominent over eastern and northern Australia sin the coming months. The image below shows the average lightning density over Australia during spring, with seasonal lightning hotspots typically found in northeast NSW, southeast Qld and the northern tropics.

Thunderstorms will continue to affect parts of northeast NSW and southeast and central Qld on Friday. While storms have now cleared for most other areas of southeastern Australia, a wintry mix of showers, blustery winds small hail and snow will affect parts of Tas, Vic and southern NSW on Friday. Severe weather warnings have been issued in each of these states.

18°C/64°F at Yogyakarta Kulonprogo Airport as of 6am, 7.9°S and 7m/24' elevation.
13°C/55°F in Malang as of 6am, 7.6°S and only 526m/1726' elevation, lower elevation than Bandung

Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma Airport as of 6am: 25°C/77°F

Early spring warmth event and a touch of Summer for the main south eastern Capitals next week!
( source: Your Weather Channel - JWC FB Page )
Early spring warmth event and a touch of Summer for the main south eastern Capitals next week!




And me trying to explain the concept of anomalies/departures from the means.... ( sigh )

And the departures are substantial over on the coasts facing the Southern Ocean. Eucla is the most easterly town in WA, being near to the SA/WA border.


Sept so far:

Eucla forecasts the next 7 days:

So thats up to +12c ( so 'C', not 'F') departure from the Sept mean max !

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Literally EVERY WORD in the above post is a copyright breach 

edit - he deleted it, now it looks like I'm yelling at Dona Jimena 

Waterspout here yesterday

Skillinge recorded 29.0'C today, 0.1'C off the national September record of 29.1'C! Sadly still no 30'C September temps for Sweden though.

Double fuckup today as per usual.