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Post by B87 on Jun 10, 2024 1:56:10 GMT -5
Summer 2024 starting cool, and now turning wet and cloudy after the first week had average sunshine.
June looks like it'll end up with below average sun, and be the 13th consecutive 50mm+ month (a ridiculous stat, as we only average 5 50mm+ months per year, and the previous record was 9 months).
Hopefully July and/or August will put an end to this horrific pattern that has plagued us since June 2023.
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Post by MET on Jun 11, 2024 12:28:42 GMT -5
Some temperature data for Scotland/Northern England shows the state of avg. max temperatures boxed in red for the month of June 2024 so far.  |
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Post by greysrigging on Jun 11, 2024 18:04:39 GMT -5
Counting down to Australia’s shortest day of 2024 ( source: Weatherzone )  The Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice will occur in 10 days, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year in Australia. Earth’s tilted axis means our planet’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres are oriented more towards and away from the sun at different times throughout the year. This change in orientation relative to the sun causes our seasons and is why the sun appears higher in the sky during summer and lower during winter.  ^^Image: The orientation of the solar terminator (line between day and night) on the Southern Hemisphere’s summer solstice (top left), winter solstice (bottom left), autumn equinox (top right) and spring equinox (bottom right) in 2010/2011. Source: NASA The winter solstice refers to the moment when Earth’s Southern or Northern Hemispheres reaches their furthest tilt away from the sun. This happens once a year in each hemisphere, with the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice occurring in late December and the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice taking place in late June. This year’s winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere will occur at 6:51am AEST on Friday June 21, which is 10 days from now. The date of the winter solstice will be Australia’s shortest day of the year based on daylight hours, while the surrounding nights will be Australia’s longest nights of the year based on time between sunset and sunrise. If you live in Sydney, there will be roughly 9 hour and 54 minutes between sunrise and sunset on this year’s winter solstice. However, the daylength on the winter solstice will vary depending on latitude, with Darwin having close to 11 hours and 24 minutes between sunrise and sunset, while Hobart only gets 9 hours. Following Friday’s winter solstice, days will start to become longer, and nights will get shorter across Australia. This trend will continue for the following six months until we reach the Southern Hemisphere’s summer solstice in late December, marking Australia’s longest day and shortest night of the year. |
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Post by rozenn on Jun 12, 2024 13:15:51 GMT -5
Down to -0.3°C/31°F this morning in Mourmelon 150 km east of Paris. Unusual to see freezes this late in the season in the Champagne region. Ice wine anyone?
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Post by AJ1013 on Jun 12, 2024 15:40:47 GMT -5
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Post by greysrigging on Jun 12, 2024 17:53:18 GMT -5
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Post by Steelernation on Jun 12, 2024 20:03:59 GMT -5
Had an insane storm come through. Golf ball sized hail, heavy rain, and winds that had to be ~70 mph. Took down 10 mature, tall trees on my street, luckily I didn’t have any damage. Also had the eerie teal colored sky beforehand that’s common in severe storms. Was under a tornado warning and there were tornadoes in the area but luckily they missed me, just severe straight line winds instead.
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Jun 13, 2024 10:45:21 GMT -5
Cool tornado from Edberg, AB (southeast of Edmonton)
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Post by tompas on Jun 13, 2024 11:07:04 GMT -5
Man WTF 
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Post by srfoskey on Jun 15, 2024 17:44:23 GMT -5
Absolutely fucken bullshit weather this weekend. Fake heat atm, feels hot in the sun, hot in the car, hot doing yardwork. Yet the actual temp is a meager 73°F (23°C) at 11 AM. FUCKEN FAKE HEAT. What's real, though, is the suffocatingly dry 40s dewpoints today and the subarctic 57°F low last night  I would love some June weather like that. Which I guess I will actually get in San Francisco. |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Jun 15, 2024 19:16:08 GMT -5
Man WTF
Come here... Dew point forecast to max out at 23C on Thursday   |
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Post by greysrigging on Jun 15, 2024 19:54:47 GMT -5
Longest period without snow in recorded history across the Blue Mountains ( source: Blackheath Weather ) Wow. Not a nice record to break ... Looks like we have just hit our longest period without snow in recorded history across the Blue Mountains - database going back to the 1800s. Amazing. Will we see snow this winter? I'm reasonably confident of that but boy has the snow story changed this century. A big fall this century is 5cm. Last century? 50cm plus. And we haven't had one flake of snow for nearly two years in the Blue Mountains.🙏 When the snow does come, we will not miss a flake. The photo here is a Bathurst ( 745m asl )snowfall. Look at the depth back in the old days!  |
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Post by desiccatedi85 on Jun 15, 2024 21:03:00 GMT -5
Absolutely fucken bullshit weather this weekend. Fake heat atm, feels hot in the sun, hot in the car, hot doing yardwork. Yet the actual temp is a meager 73°F (23°C) at 11 AM. FUCKEN FAKE HEAT. What's real, though, is the suffocatingly dry 40s dewpoints today and the subarctic 57°F low last night I would love some June weather like that. Which I guess I will actually get in San Francisco. You'll get cool foggy windy bullshit there. What Benny just described there was a comfy sunny mid-70s day, very atypical for an SF summer. |
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Post by desiccatedi85 on Jun 16, 2024 12:50:37 GMT -5
Very dry and hot conditions expected for the foreseeable future here. Stagnant high pressure is set to sit over the Mid-Atlantic this week, a few models show a 600dm+ ridge which would help set temperature records, but even the conservative GEFS calls for quite a dry and hot airmass. The only thing stopping temps from soaring to records is some S-SE'ly onshore flow. The hottest days in the coastal cities will be when the ridge shifts south of here and winds can shift westerly to get inland, downslope flow.
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Post by Benfxmth on Jun 16, 2024 12:51:55 GMT -5
Alright, let's namedrop the locales that are currently, or forecast for the next week or so to be hotter and more humid than here, shall we? This includes, but is not limited to the following places. Apologies to whoever I forgot about. Faggotville, the Wilmoids, Lumbertoids, NYC, Faplanta, Raleigh, Madison, Washington DC, Shitchester, Pittsburgh, Bunghole, the fucken Tallanastoids, Gayami, Key Bitcoin, the Arundeloids, and PEIGEI.  EDIT: ANOTHER TWO OR THREE PICS IS WORTH TWO OR THREE THOUSAND WORDS. YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP   |
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Post by srfoskey on Jun 16, 2024 19:17:54 GMT -5
I would love some June weather like that. Which I guess I will actually get in San Francisco. You'll get cool foggy windy bullshit there. What Benny just described there was a comfy sunny mid-70s day, very atypical for an SF summer. We actually had bright sunshine all day today. It didn't get that warm, but still felt plenty warm in the strong June sun, so I'm not complaining. |
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Post by greysrigging on Jun 16, 2024 20:10:23 GMT -5
Six Aussie states below zero degrees this morning, more to come ( source: Weatherzone )  Sub-zero temperatures sent shivers across six states and territories on Monday morning, with some places experiencing their lowest temperatures in 2 to 4 years. A lingering cold air mass combined with clear skies and relatively light winds caused temperatures to plunge across large areas of southeastern and eastern Australia on Sunday night into Monday morning. The map below shows modelled temperature anomalies early on Monday, with the blue shading representing areas that were below average for this time of year.  ^^Image: Modelled 2-metre air temperature anomalies at 4am AEST on Monday, June 17, 2024. Source: Tropical Tidbits Some of the standout observations from Monday morning included: -4.8°C at Yunta (SA) -3.8°C at Canberra (ACT) -3.6°C at Thredbo Top Station (NSW) -3.7°C at Mt Hotham (Vic) -2.4°C at Wynyard (Tas) -1.0°C at Roma (Qld) Yunta’s -4.8°C on Monday morning was the lowest temperature in SA so far this year, and the site’s coldest morning in four years. Even Cairns in northern Qld was feeling the chill on Monday, dipping to 12.8°C shortly before 7am during its coldest morning in two years. Looking ahead, teeth-chattering minimum temperatures will continue to affect parts of southeastern and eastern Australia for the next few mornings under the influence of a near-stationary high pressure ridge.  ^^Images: Forecast minimum temperatures on Tuesday (top) and Wednesday (bottom) mornings, according to the ECMWF-HRES model. Temperatures are likely to dip below -5°C in parts of southeastern Australia between Tuesday and Thursday mornings. |
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Post by Steelernation on Jun 16, 2024 23:35:38 GMT -5
Nearest confirmed tornado on Wednesday was about 2 miles away from me. Was in the area on Thursday and there were large swaths of downed trees. One house had a huge tree fallen on it. Nearest station doesn’t record winds so unfortunately no way of knowing what they got up to. Tornado was an EF2, >115-135 mph winds. So maybe 80 where I am.
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Post by greysrigging on Jun 17, 2024 15:39:12 GMT -5
AU Capital Cities at 7.00am eastern standard time:  |
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Post by Ethereal on Jun 17, 2024 22:04:12 GMT -5
Frost in the tropics on coldest night of 2024 to date Australia has just shivered through its coldest night of 2024 to date with a low of –9°C at Thredbo Top Station, but perhaps the most remarkable minimums were recorded not down south, but in Queensland. Frost would surely have been coating the ground in the tropics earlier this Tuesday morning, with temperatures of 0°C or lower recorded at weather stations located north of the Tropic of Capricorn.
Several weather stations in southern Queensland also had their coldest night of the year by a considerable margin. Some of the observations of note included:
Clermont Airport (north of the Tropic of Capricorn): minimum –0.8°C, which was the coldest night in almost two years for the town in the Central the Highlands-Coalfields forecast district.
Williamson Airfield (north of Rockhampton and also in the tropics): minimum of 0°C which was 12 degrees below average for June, and very cold for a location so far north and also very close to the sea.
Biloela (just south of The Tropic of Capricorn): minimum of –3.4°C which was its coldest night in 20 years, and the coldest for June in 42 years.
Roma (Maranoa and Warrego forecast district): minimum of –3.5°C. This was the town's lowest temp in nearly two years.
Tambo (Central West forecast district): The tiny outback town of 200 residents dropped to a minimum of –5.6°C which was Queensland's coldest temperature of the year to date.
The chart below shows the temperature gradient for Australia on Tuesday morning. Blue means cool, and that blue zone is extending significantly further north than usual. As Weatherzone meteorologist Ben Domensino wrote on Monday morning, the cause of the plummeting overnight temps across so much of eastern Australia is a lingering cold airmass combined with clear skies and relatively light winds. Those conditions have continued into Tuesday morning and apart from freezing temps up north, there were plenty of cold nights in locations where you’d expect to see them. For example:Canberra had a low –4.2°C, its coldest night of winter to date (but not the coldest night recorded thus far in 2024, which was a –4.9°C in late May.Tasmania got down to –6.5°C at Liawenee on the Central Plateau.There were frosty nights across Victoria, with temps nearing –6°C in the Victorian Alps, but the one that caught our eye was the frigid –3.9°C at Coldstream on Melbourne’s northeastern outskirts. The city of Melbourne got down to 3.6°C and Melbourne Airport dropped to 1.5°C, which made it the coldest night of the year to date at both stations. Expect another super cold morning on Wednesday right across eastern Australia before overnight temps start to moderate a little as a cold front and associated low pressure system introduces wind and moisture into the meteorological mix.www.weatherzone.com.au/news/frost-in-the-tropics-on-coldest-night-of-2024-to-date/1889538In my area it only went down to 8°C (including Sydney CBD and Airport). Which is weird because we have been more exposed to the southwesterlies than anything north, let alone the tropics!
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