NH Winter/SH Summer 2023-2024

They forgot to mention that it was Wimbledon with no hot days thrown in. 


No words can express the record crap cancer that has been Melbourne Sprog and Crummer. Record cold, record wet, and record cloudy. Both Dickcember, and Jackoffuary, recorded 6.8 hrs per day, for a grand total barely scratching 200 hours for either month, and that was at the airport, most likely the "sunniest" place in Melbourne. Literally London the whole way through, except London has a better chance of exceeding 33C in their crummer. Thank Christ I don't live in that arctic hole anymore. Yeah I may bitch about my climate, but it is 10-20C warmer than Melbourne with 2000 hours more sun annually. Here, overcast is surprising, unlike in Melbourne, where the fucken SUN is surprising, especially this record SHIT crummer.  Fucken maritime arctic climate.  And yet, more than half the population is from Shanghai, Delhi, Mumbai, and Beirut, all hot and humid climates which Melbourne can never hope to aspire to, why these people move to New Antarctica, no one will never know.  Even the fucken polar fizzlah trolls on  Ski.com.au and the Australian Weather Forum are pissed off about the unprecedented cold and cloud in Melbourne, you know it's bad when these Svalbard wannabee trolls start bitching about it....

LOOK AT THIS FUCKEN AIDS



FUCKDEN AIDS


The forecast






EL NINO!!! FUCKEN BOM BUMMERS, THEY COULD NOT FORECAST THEIR NEXT PISS. COLDER AND CLOUDIER SPROG/CRUMMER THAN 2022/2023, IF THAT WAS EVEN POSSIBLE. BUT YEAH, HERE WE ARE. FAKE ASS EL NINO. MORE FAKE THAN THE ASS CHEEKS ON KIM KARDASHIAN.  Half the country is underwater, record cold in SE Australia south of a line from Shitney/Penroids, BUT SHITNEY/PENROIDS AND EVERYWHERE NORTH JUST KEEP GETTING HEAT AND HUMIDITY

THIS MAKES LA NINA CRY, THIS RECORD CRAP POLAR ROT. THE AGW AT THE BUM NEED TO BE ARRESTED AND PARADED THRU THE STREETS BEHIND A FUCKEN HORSE


THE DIFFERENCE  IN HEAT THIS CRUMMER BETWEEN MELBOURNE AND SHITNEY, IS LIKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN  A PROTON AND THE SIZE OF THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE. SHITNEY HAS BEEN LITERALLY 10 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE WARMER THAN MELBOURNE THIS SPROG AND CRUMMER. LITERALLY 10 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE. 


WHEN THE AGW SHILLS AT WEATHERZONE CALL THE MELBOURNE CLIMATE NORTHERN EUROPEAN, YOU KNOW ALL HOPE IS LOST



They do their best though, they call an average high of 26C as "high 20's"

Fuck nuggets

There's no 'record cold'.... and there has been way worse summers than this one.... swings and roundabouts.... lol
But I know where you're coming from...

haha... i grew up in Victoria.... trust me... way worse summers in the record books..... and all those lefty fuckers gave that happy clapper tool the arse.... and it'll be a generation before the win another election.... their model dont particularly float the boat of the AU electorate any more..... get used to it.... lol...

What counts as summer in Sweden?  5 days of means >= 10C. But it's supposed to stay above 10 afterwards. There was a thread on this topic already: cdweather.boards.net/thread/1782/smhi-temperature-based-seasonal-classification



Edit: Updated temps through the 29th and forecast as of the 30th. The warmth is persisting an extra day, but the days were a bit cooler than forecast.

When will Melbourne have 'real' summer?
( source: Weatherzone )

It hasn't really felt like summer in Melbourne so far in the summer of 2023/24.

The December average maximum temperature was 23.8°C, which is almost a degree below the long-term monthly average of 24.7°C

The January average maximum to date is 25.4°C, which is half a degree below the long-term monthly average of 25.9°C

While Melbourne nights have been much warmer than usual – making the overall mean temperature higher than average – there has been a distinct lack of scorching hot days so far this summer.

December's hottest day was 34°C on the 13th, and that was one of just four 30-degree days in the month.

January's hottest day so far has been 33.4°C on the 12th and that will likely stand as the hottest day of the month as Melbourne max temps will stay in the low-to-mid twenties until the weekend.

Why the lack of prolonged hot spells or extreme heat?

Blame SAM, as in the Southern Annular Mode. There are a few factors at play but SAM has definitely been the main culprit for Melbourne’s relatively mild daytime temps this summer.

READ MORE: What is the Southern Annular Mode and how does it affect Australia?

In simple terms, the SAM is an index used to monitor the position of a belt of westerly winds that flow from west to east in the Southern Ocean between Australia and Antarctica.

When the SAM is positive, as it has been for much of the 2023/24 summer, the westerly winds, cold fronts, and low pressure systems are located further south than usual.

This enhances the onshore flow of winds over eastern Australia, as you can see in the diagram below.

The situation depicted above is pretty close to what Melbourne has experienced this summer.

While there have been severe heatwaves around the interior of Australia, the weather in Melbourne has been strongly moderated by that easterly flow and abundant moisture.

Interestingly, maximum temps in Mildura – in the Mallee region of far northwestern Victoria – have been around 1.5°C above average in both December and January to date.

But the consistently moist onshore winds over southern Vic, bringing air all the way from the Tasman Sea, have prevented the hottest air making its way south.
In the past week, SAM has returned to a more neutral state so there's a chance of hotter weather ahead through February. Indeed, Melbourne is tipped to reach 31°C this coming Sunday.

But there's no strong indication at this stage of a heatwave on the horizon for southern Vic, and indeed February max temps are forecast to be close to average or even slightly below average for Melbourne.

AU capital cities forecast today... note Melbourne at the height of summer.....

Dunno about 'outdated' ...  depends on the time period they're using... eg if one uses all available for the Melbourne Regional Office, the data is from 1855-2014. ( 2014-15 they moved the 'official' Melbourne site to Olympic Park. )


And here is the same site 1991-2014:


The figures from Olympic Park  max and mins 2015-2024

January closed on a very mild note--last four days have had highs of 62, 64, 61 and 63. This is the most consecutive January 60s since 2015.