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Post by rozenn on May 12, 2024 10:38:45 GMT -5
Kind of in between storms today. Got some hail and thunder here but nothing to write home about. Not sure why the GIFs don't show lightning anymore.  |
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Post by ral31 on May 12, 2024 13:51:20 GMT -5
Hit 90F for the first time of the year on Wednesday. Also had a couple of days last week with lows in the mid 70's. Felt like summer.
Cool by May standards today. Hasn't been past 68F with some rain. Thunderstorms in the area and could be a flash flood threat later.
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Post by ral31 on May 12, 2024 13:52:11 GMT -5
Quite wet across the Deep South this week.  |
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Post by MET on May 12, 2024 19:17:30 GMT -5
Big thunderstorms - 27,000 lightning strikes - for lots of people in the UK yesterday!  |
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Post by Ariete on May 13, 2024 4:12:29 GMT -5
Chance for the first 25C temp of the year somewhere in Central Finland on Wednesday:
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Post by aabc123 on May 13, 2024 15:05:43 GMT -5
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Post by greysrigging on May 13, 2024 22:17:33 GMT -5
May day heat record to tumble in Perth ( source: Weatherzone )  Perth ( not Renmark, Perth ) is about to obliterate its record for the longest run of days above 25°C in May as the city experiences an unusual run of late-season warmth. A lack of strong cold fronts and frequent easterly winds have been causing an uninterrupted spell of warm days in Perth over the past week. This warm weather has been driven by the stubborn high pressure systems located south of Australia, a pattern which looks set to continue for at least the rest of this week. As of 9am AWST on Tuesday, May 14, Perth had registered seven consecutive days above 25°C. Wednesday should reach around 28°C in the city, extending the run to eight days in a row. This will match Perth’s May record for consecutive 25°C days, which occurred in 2009 and 1985.  ^^Image: Maximum and minimum temperatures in Perth over the last five days. Based on current forecasts, the city could exceed 25°C each day for the rest of this week and possibly into early next week. This would extend the run to 13 days by Sunday, blowing the old May record out of the water.  ^^Image: Forecast 2-metre air temperature anomaly for Sunday afternoon, according to the GFS model. Source: tropicaltidbits.com While 25°C is by no means extreme heat, the persistence of these daytime temperatures is not something Perth has seen this late in the season in 125 years of records. The average May maximum temperature in Perth over the last 30 years has been about 22°C. There are two key factors at play with this record-breaking weather in Perth: A stagnant weather pattern involving abnormally high pressure to the south of Australia is preventing any significant cooling in southwestern Australia this month. Climate change is making warm weather records more likely. The average autumn maximum temperature at Perth Airport increased by 2.15°C between 1910 and 2022.  The weather pattern that is causing this record-breaking run of warmth is also starving the city of much needed rainfall. Perth hasn’t seen any rain for the past 12 days and has only picked up 8.4 mm so far this month. This continues a prolonged run of dry months that just saw the city endure its driest October to April period on record. Looking ahead, there are early signs that a low pressure trough could bring lower temperatures and some much-needed rain to Perth in the second half of next week. However, it's too early to know with certainty, so be sure to check the latest forecasts next week for more accurate details. |
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Post by Beercules on May 13, 2024 22:55:41 GMT -5
fucking boring ass vanilla shitburb at the ass end of the country's rectum. Blow that worthless 1 dimensional worthless nothinghole into the ocean and tow it to the fucking Antarctica where the Emperor penguins can eat it then shit it back into the antarctic southern ocean 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
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Post by greysrigging on May 14, 2024 4:39:10 GMT -5
^^ ya wont be saying that when some Indian Ocean 'coldies' come belting in with embedded storms and the odd tornado or two ( as in the one in Busselton last week... )
I was in Mandurah in May/June 2018 and the frontal westerly 'coldies' were epic !
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Post by greysrigging on May 14, 2024 4:57:32 GMT -5
Keith in South Australia showing record anomalies for the month of May.... record cold re min temps, -3.5c below average. And the max temps also running at record levels, +2.6c above average ! Typical conditions with a blocking high stationary over the Great Australian Bight.  |
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Post by Ariete on May 14, 2024 10:21:06 GMT -5
Chance for the first 25C temp of the year somewhere in Central Finland on Wednesday:
Already happened today: 25.1C at Kauhava, Central Finland.
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Post by srfoskey on May 14, 2024 19:56:46 GMT -5
Drove through Cheyenne last night, despite being only 5 f colder than Fort Collins, trees were totally bare. Looked like it did on like April 5th here. Making a mental note never to live in Cheyenne. I have a friend who lives there, and she says it's pretty boring, without many good restaurants or things to do. |
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Post by Benfxmth on May 15, 2024 19:01:52 GMT -5
Speaking of storms avoiding me today and getting only fraction of precip as everywhere else... fucken gay  |
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Post by greysrigging on May 15, 2024 20:21:50 GMT -5
25 rainless days and counting in Adelaide ( source: Weatherzone )  It's dry in Adelaide right now. How dry? Weatherzone spoke to some locals for this story and asked them to tell you in their own words. But first, some quick stats: Adelaide hasn't recorded a drop of rain for 25 consecutive days, as of 9 am this Thursday, May 16. Indeed the rain taps have basically been turned off since January, as the graph below shows. Despite no rain in the first half of this month, it’s worth noting that May is actually one of Adelaide's wettest months on average (the wettest is June), with an average of 67.9 mm. Even the summit of Mt Lofty – which often catches significantly more rain than the city – has recorded just 1 mm so far this month. For those wondering just how much wetter it is up on Mt Lofty, its average annual rainfall is 979.3 mm, almost double the 526.3 mm annual average of the West Terrace/Ngayirdapira site in the Adelaide CBD.  So after almost four months with only one day of significant rainfall that exceeded 5 mm (April 19 with 5.4 mm), what's it like in the parched parks, gardens and paddocks in and around the city? "The gravel around the outside of our footy ground has become so dry that the dust kicked up by the cars dropping kids off sits over the oval like a fog during training," Adelaide local Dave Brown told us. Dave wasn't the only one who mentioned airborne dust. "I was driving home from the Barossa today and the horizon was full of smoke and dust. It's so bad," Adelaide resident Nick Schadegg told us. Even the wildlife is doing it tough, although thankfully, the kind-hearted people of Adelaide are helping out. x.com/DeanNicolle1/status/1789421931550191702"I'm having to fill the birdbath every second day. Very unusual for this time of the year," Adelaide author Daniel Best told us. "Kangaroos are coming down into southern suburbs parks and ovals in search of food, it's that dry," another local added. Locals also report autumn trees that aren't changing colours or dropping their leaves as uniformly as in years gone by, while one member of the Weatherzone Facebook community told us of "lawn so dry it crunches when you walk on it".  The bad news is that there are no immediate signs of a break in the pattern. A cold front that will bring cooler temps and showers to Tasmania and the southeastern mainland on Friday into the weekend will drop temps by a few degrees in southeastern SA, but bring little in the way of rain. As with other parts of Australia in recent times, blocking highs are to blame for southern South Australia's prolonged dry spell, and there is no modelling that shows anything the highs breaking down in the next week or two. Beyond that time frame, the best we can offer is hope. Our Adelaide forecast is here:  |
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Post by greysrigging on May 16, 2024 0:40:19 GMT -5
Australia's coldest April since 2015 during Earth's warmest April on record. ( source: Weatherzone )  Australia can be the hottest place in the world at the height of summer, but in April 2024 the country was an island of abnormally cold weather amid a sea of record-breaking global heat. Data released this week by Berkeley Earth shows that Earth’s global average air temperature in April 2024 was 1.67 ± 0.11°C above the 1850 to 1900 average. This was the highest April average temperature on record, beating the previous record from 2020 by 0.14°C. Last month continued a prolonged run of record-breaking global heat that has been going on uninterrupted since June 2023, with April becoming the 11th consecutive month to set a new monthly global average temperature record. Against this backdrop of unrivalled global warmth, it was surprising to see Australia register its first cooler-than-average April in nine years.  The blue blob over Australia on the map above shows that the mean air temperature over Australia in April 2024 was lower than the 1951-1980 average. It’s one of only a few places on Earth’s surface that were cooler than average in April 2024. The chart below shows Australia’s April mean temperatures for every year from 1910 to 2024, relative to a slightly more recent baseline (1961-1990). The graph reveals that April 2024 was the first cooler-than-average April since 2015.  So, what made Australia so cool in what was an otherwise record-breaking warm month for Earth’s atmosphere? It was all about pressure. More specifically, an abnormal dominance of high pressure centred to the south of WA. While high pressure systems are frequently found to the south of Australia in autumn, they were more persistent than usual to the south of WA last month. The monthly mean sea level pressure to the south of WA was more than 12 hPa above the long-term average in April 2024.  When high pressure is centred to the south of WA, it causes southerly component winds to carry cool air across Australia. When these high pressure systems are strong and large, the southerly winds can be persistent and transport cool air across the entire continent. So, while many areas of Earth were experiencing record-breaking warmth in April 2024, Australa was one of the only places being kept cooler than normal thanks to a stagnant weather pattern. This is a good example of how periods of cold weather can mask the longer-term warming trend of climate change. |
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Post by greysrigging on May 16, 2024 0:46:03 GMT -5
^^ Includes Renmark....   |
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Post by Beercules on May 16, 2024 1:27:23 GMT -5
Useless fucking codswollop. Who wrote this drivel? Did they forget the record warm April in Perf? And the rest of western and northern parts of Western Australia? Do they not realise that the easterlies at the top end of these highs actually bring heat to Perf and that half of the continent?
Imbeciles.
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Post by greysrigging on May 16, 2024 2:59:38 GMT -5
^^Maaate, c'mon now... they have the data from sites AU wide ie: many thousands of sites all over the Continent ...
In fact the deep north ( other than coastal NT and WA ) was also below average both min and max temps.
Here's some of them re April... mostly below the long term April means north of the Tropic of Capricorn.
Wyndham = -1.5c/-2.5c
Kununurra = -1.3c/-1.5c
Kalumburu = +0.3/-0.8c
Fitzroy Crossing = -1.2c/-1.5c
Broome = -0.2c/+0.8c
Karratha = -0.3c/-0.7c
Marble Bar = -0.7c/-1.3c
Telfer = -1.1c/-1.6c
Newman = -0.5c/-0.8c
Katherine = -0.2c/-0.8c
Tennant Creek = -2.3c/-0.8c
Alice Springs = -3.7c/-2.5c
Darwin = +0.6c/+0.8c
Mount Isa = -1.3c/-1.1c
Weipa = +1.3c/-0.7c
Cairns = +0.6c/0.0c
Townsville = +1.1c/+1.1c
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Post by MET on May 16, 2024 11:47:25 GMT -5
IT'S COMING
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Post by Doña Jimena on May 17, 2024 13:11:18 GMT -5
Splendide sunshine and high of 21C again. Still shining after 9 p.m., sunsets are late in May here. Tomorrow should be hotter, high of 25C or even 26C is expected.  |
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