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Post by greysrigging on May 27, 2024 15:46:14 GMT -5
Extremes AU wide the last 24 hours:  |
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Post by greysrigging on May 27, 2024 23:17:16 GMT -5
Freezing Nights, Balmy Days: ( source: Weatherzone )  Canberra just had its coldest night of the year to date, with a low of –4.9°C just before 7 am Tuesday, which would have made hand signals difficult for the city's many cycle commuters. But the run home should be a lot more finger-friendly for those leaving before dark, with a balmy top of 18°C on the cards today. That's a temperature differential between the high and low of almost 23 degrees. For the record, Canberra's average May minimum is 2.4°C while the average max is 16.4°C. Many inland towns in the southeastern corner of Australia are experiencing similar conditions at the moment. Young in NSW, the town known for producing cherries and champion cricketer Nathan Lyon, had an overnight min of –3.7°C and is heading for a max of 19°C. That's a gap of nearly 23 degrees too. The small town of Omeo in Victoria, located in a valley just east of the high country, had a minimum of –5.4°C on Tuesday morning with a forecast top of 19°C for today. So that's a differential of more than 24 degrees. While these temperature differentials are quite significant, it's actually quite normal to see a large diurnal temperature range at this time of year in the southern half of Australia. It happens because we still have relatively warm air masses lingering over the continent, which help provide daytime warmth when you find yourself underneath a high pressure system. However, the clear skies and light winds beneath these highs, combined with lengthening nights (less than one month until the solstice) causes radiative cooling at night. Meanwhile the pattern should last another day and then change. Wednesday should again dawn chilly with widespread inland frosts, and the day will even be a couple of degrees warmer in many spots, with temps reaching the low twenties in many towns. Warm northwesterly winds ahead of an approaching cold front will then bring much warmer nights before a colder airmass spreads across the southeast on Friday and into the weekend, with rain in many areas.  So enjoy these balmy days, get outside and have lunch in the sun if you can, because chilly weather is almost upon us, just in time for the official start of winter on Saturday, June 1. |
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Post by greysrigging on May 28, 2024 2:20:45 GMT -5
Bit of storm activity over the parched regions of WA. There is a bit of a north west cloud band streaming in from north west to south east. they are forecasting around 25mm for Alice Springs as well.   |
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Post by greysrigging on May 28, 2024 2:46:34 GMT -5
When Port Fairy ( 6 hours south on the cold Southern Ocean ) is warmer than Renmark... ffs its nearly winter... lol   Last 5 day means: Port Fairy - 11.8c Renmark - 10.3c |
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Post by Beercules on May 28, 2024 2:53:55 GMT -5
Belfast with one hot day
trollolololol
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Post by Ariete on May 28, 2024 9:36:11 GMT -5
The forecast PROMISED that it would be 30C today... It wasn't, a bit too windy. Around 28.6C will be the high. FIZZER HERP DE PERFFFFFFFFFFF Possibly only one location in Finland hit 29C, Heinola with 29.2C. Nevertheless it's below 30C. FIZZER! CRUMMER BUMMER! Luckily the Rigoids didn't either. PERFFFF DERFFFFF!
Tomorrow the high will be around 28C and CLOUDY! KILL MASELF!
edit: 28.8C was the high in Turku.
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Post by Doña Jimena on May 28, 2024 13:24:04 GMT -5
First 30C registered in Latvia.  |
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Post by greysrigging on May 28, 2024 16:57:28 GMT -5
AU capitals a coupla days before winter ( 7.00am CST )  |
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Post by aabc123 on May 28, 2024 17:13:56 GMT -5
Stations on 28/05  |
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Post by greysrigging on May 28, 2024 18:36:46 GMT -5
North West Cloudband producing some rain on the lower Kimberley and Pilbara coasts. Showers continuing in the south west around Perth.    This would be good to see in the wet season, let alone in the last coupla days of May !  |
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Post by Babu on May 29, 2024 2:43:40 GMT -5
First 30C registered in Latvia. I'm guessing there must've been pretty strong southeasterlies for the only 30'C temp to be right on the coast |
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Post by Doña Jimena on May 29, 2024 4:56:47 GMT -5
I'm guessing there must've been pretty strong southeasterlies for the only 30'C temp to be right on the coast The wind was coming from the South-East indeed, but it wasn't strong, only 7 meters per second/25 kmh. Another thing which helped was a high minimal temperature exactly because of the coastal location. |
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Post by greysrigging on May 29, 2024 19:48:16 GMT -5
NW Cloudband Soaks The Interior ( source: Weatherzone )  Just look at that huge northwest cloudband crossing the country like a massive diagonal sash. The moisture-laden cloudband has delivered significant rain from Western Australia's Kimberley district, through to the Red Centre, and all the way down to southeastern SA. Some of the totals from this system to 9 am Thursday include: 62.2 mm at Broome on WA's Kimberley Coast, the heaviest daily May rainfall in four years and a welcome top-up after a wet season with well below-average rainfall (see the graph at the bottom of this page). 28 mm at Alice Springs, which was the heaviest daily May rainfall in 20 years. It was also the city’s first rain in 53 days after an exceptionally wet March which saw the Todd River flood after 226.2 mm of total monthly rainfall spread across 10 rain days. Falls of 5 to 10 mm across the Adelaide metropolitan area with 6.6 mm in the city, and slightly heavier falls of 10 to 15 mm in the Adelaide Hills. While not exceptionally heavy, this rain has at least prevented the parched SA capital from registering its driest May on record, after just 0.6 mm of rain fell in May 2024 before today. The cloudband now continues its eastwards march, with rain and showers spreading into western Victoria and southwest NSW. Virtually all of Victoria and Tasmania can expect to see rain from later today into Friday, with most of New South Wales getting wet on Friday into Saturday. There's much more rain and some wild weather in store for coastal New South Wales due to an East Coast Low which will form later this weekend, but that's a different weather system. For now, it’s all about that northwest cloudband which is dominating Australian weather charts on a scale which few other weather systems do. Parts of Tasmania have been exceptionally dry to date in 2024, but moisture originating in the Indian Ocean off northwest WA is about to help with that as it streams thousands of kilometres across the continent. |
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Post by greysrigging on May 30, 2024 2:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by greysrigging on May 30, 2024 3:45:02 GMT -5
Late Autumn rain for VIC and TAS due to the vigorous northwest cloudband  |
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Post by Ariete on May 31, 2024 9:03:23 GMT -5
May is literally going out with a bang. Had a brief but quite active thunderstorm later this afternoon. 6.6 mm of badly needed rain fell, and the temp dropped with 10C.
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Post by Ariete on May 31, 2024 12:58:28 GMT -5
Finland sees new heatwave record for May
Friday is the 16th day this month that temperatures have climbed above 25 degrees Celsius.
Friday marks the 16th day this month that temperatures in Finland have breached the 25-degree Celsius mark, the country's official "heatwave" threshold.
The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) reported that a reading of over 25 degrees was recorded near the city of Turku in southwest Finland at about 10am on Friday morning.
This sets a new record for the number of heatwave days recorded during the month of May. The previous record was set in 2018, when the threshold was broken 14 times.
The outlook for this coming weekend suggests it will remain largely warm and sunny across the country, although scattered rain showers and thunderstorms are also forecast.
The first Saturday of June is traditionally the school graduation day in Finland, and this year will be mostly celebrated in temperatures ranging from 29 degrees Celsius in the south to 21 degrees in Finnish Lapland.
However, rain showers are also possible throughout the country, as well as periods of overcast conditions. Thunderstorms are also likely during the afternoon, especially in Finnish Lapland.
Elements of US Army 10th Mountain Division have been exercising in Lapland for the last three weeks, and they have really experienced the full spectrum of the Lapland nature going from a late winter straight to summer. When they arrived there was over 30 cm of snow on the ground, and extremely cold lows. When they are leaving they have experienced almost 80F and almost an instant leafout of decidious trees.
We had the opportunity to see the last snowfall when we arrived, and now after 3 weeks it's warm and bright as you can see. I have never experienced anything like this, says Captain Justin Carrollo from Louisiana.
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