Scary heat today in Melbourne and much of the South East Australia:


http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

Forecast for the rest of Monday

Summary

Max 41

Late cool change. Windy.
Chance of any rain: 20%
Melbourne area

Mostly sunny morning, with cloud increasing from the west in the afternoon.
Slight chance of a shower in the late evening.
The chance of a thunderstorm with little or no rainfall from the early afternoon.
Thunderstorms possibly severe with damaging winds.
Winds northerly 35 to 50 km/h shifting cooler south to southwesterly 15 to 25 km/h in the late evening.



It's already 33.5 C in Adelaide.
http://www.bom.gov.au/sa/observations/adelaide.shtml

Alice Springs will be 43 today:

http://www.bom.gov.au/nt/forecasts/alice-springs.shtml

Sydney only 29
http://www.bom.gov.au/nsw/forecasts/sydney.shtml

We are getting some rain and cool breeze. Melbourne is getting hot northerlies.

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 12:51pm:

We are getting some rain and cool breeze. Melbourne is getting hot northerlies.

Rockhampton is 30.7 right now.
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94374.shtml


Melbourne is 35 C  at 2:15 pm.
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/observations/melbourne.shtml

It's called summer...happens every year.

https://www.farmonlineweather.com.au/news/victoria-soars-to-47c-for-first-time-since-black-summer/1890208


Victoria soars to 47°C for first time since Black Summer

Anthony Sharwood, Monday December 16, 2024 - 14:26 AEDT

For the first time since the fateful Black Summer, the mercury has reached 47°C in Victoria, as an intense heatwave bakes large parts of eastern Australia including a big chunk of our southernmost mainland state.

Shortly after 2pm, the mercury peaked at 47.1°C at Walpeup, a tiny town in the Mallee region in the state's northwest with a population of around 150.

As of 3pm Monday (AEDT), temps had reached 44°C or higher at several locations in the Mallee and Wimmera districts including Mildura (45.1°C), Hopetoun Airport (45.4°C), Swan Hill (45°C) and Horsham (44°C).

Even Victoria's southern coastline has not been spared today's extreme heat, with Warrnambool reaching 41.2°C just after 1pm before rapidly shedding more than 10 degrees within half an hour as a cooler west-southwesterly change pushed through.

I was whingeing about 35°C the other week. But, I could not imagine the 47°C.

I suffered through hot humid weather the other week until I decided to go see a documentary at the cinema. Best $18 I have spent. Free food after the event.

Hope we get a lot more than 25mm of rainfall tomorrow and Wednesday. Low pressure system hanging off the coast moving northwest.

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 3:33pm:

I was whingeing about 35°C the other week. But, I could not imagine the 47°C. I suffered through hot humid weather the other week until I decided to go see a documentary at the cinema. Best $18 I have spent. Free food after the event. Hope we get a lot more than 25mm of rainfall tomorrow and Wednesday. Low pressure system hanging off the coast moving northwest.

On Black Saturday in 2009 it reached 46 C degrees at my place.

https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/black-saturday-bushfires

I went outside with bowls of water to save the birds - that were falling out of the sky.
I saved many of them.

Wapeup weather records

     
                              JAN      FEB      MAR      APR      MAY      JUN      JUL      AUG      SEP      OCT      NOV      DEC      ANNUAL
High Max (°C)      46.6      48.1      41.7      38.9      30      25.4      28.8      29.7      35.4      40.2      45.2      47.7      48.1

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/station/SITE/76064/climate
Record December 2019

I've worked in a metal Foundry at the furnaces.
It was 60C

HTFU   ;D

I was doing deliveries the other week in hot afternoon weather. Friday and Saturday night was a matter of a bit of rain about. It was really good monsoonal type weather without the heavy rain.

Jasin wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 5:34pm:

I've worked in a metal Foundry at the furnaces. It was 60C HTFU   ;D

harden up -  LOL.


It didn't get to 41 where I am -
it peaked at about 39.

The cool change later on at 9.00pm was welcome.

It's around 18 degrees right now -
what a nice refreshing wind after the heat of yesterday.

It will go down to 15 tonight - perfect.

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

That is really weird weather. We have minimums getting no lower than 20°C by November. After that, it would take a rain event with heavy hail for the temperature at any part of the day to go below 20°C. It takes until April in the following year to see minimum temperatures get below 20°C.

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 17^th, 2024 at 7:55pm:

That is really weird weather. We have minimums getting no lower than 20°C by November. After that, it would take a rain event with heavy hail for the temperature at any part of the day to go below 20°C. It takes until April in the following year to see minimum temperatures get below 20°C.

That's why I like the Southern regions of Australia -
I also sleep better when we have cool nights.

Pissin' down rain outside and the Bureau of Meteorology has not updated the rainfall total in the last 2 hours.

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 19^th, 2024 at 3:05am:

Pissin' down rain outside and the Bureau of Meteorology has not updated the rainfall total in the last 2 hours.

yes - it's often wrong here too.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94374.shtml

Melbourne -

Xmas day 33

Boxing day  40. 

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

Christmas Eve is forecast to be 40°C. Christmas Day cools down to 33°C. But I will be around at my parents' place in the cool of the airconditioning to be bothered about typical Rockhampton maximum temperatures. Will be too busy watching movies in the loungeroom.

Christmas snow in Victoria:


https://www.weatherzone.com.au/vic/w-and-s-gippsland/baw-baw

West and South Gippsland for Monday. Cloudy.
High chance of showers, most likely during the morning and afternoon.
Snow falling above 1300 metres in the morning and early afternoon.
The chance of a thunderstorm about the ranges early this morning.
Winds W/SW 30 to 45 km/h.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-23/white-christmas-nsw-snowy-mountains-tasmania-weather/104757116

Snow flurries in NSW alps and Tasmanian ski fields give locals an early Christmas present
By James Tugwell and Manika Champ
ABC South East NSW

Topic:Snow

2h ago


As bushfires rage out of control in Victoria and parts of Queensland count the cost of recent floods, residents in the NSW Snowy Mountains and Tasmania woke this morning to find snow on the ground.

The Bureau of Meteorology had forecast snow to fall above 1,700 metres in the NSW alps today, but some locals have reported sightings of snow flurries as low as Cooma at 800m elevation.

Further south, snowfields in Tasmania recorded up to 5 centimetres of snow down to 1,500 metres.

Errol Hanlon from the Thredbo Alpine Museum said snow settled on shady ground, car windscreens, back decks and some rooftops around the village.

"We definitely woke up to a snow flurry," he said.

"It's an early present for all the little kids running around in their pyjamas this morning trying to make snowballs and snowmen."

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/bce31a49c6c3778e79801dded6b566d9.jpg
Snow was spotted at Thredbo Resort this morning, but didn't stick around. (Supplied: Thredbo Resort)

Mt Baw Baw      1.2 degrees
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/vic/w-and-s-gippsland/mt-baw-baw


Mount Buller      0.4 degrees.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/vic/north-east/mount-buller



Kunanyi/Mount Wellington Forecast  in Tasmania    1 degrees tonight.
http://www.bom.gov.au/tas/forecasts/mtwellington.shtml

Will Monk get a white Xmas?

Temperature is rising here. Too hot to do gardening. Will have to stay indoors and do some cleaning before Christmas Day.

Heatwave for Melbourne.

Today 30,
Saturday 38,
Sunday 37.

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

Too hot.

Cities generate a lot of heat. Black tar roads, light reflecting off tall glassed buildings, not much breeze, too many people exhaling carbon dioxide, monoxide, car engines running hot, electricity heat everywhere and so on.

Jasin wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2025 at 7:30pm:

Cities generate a lot of heat. Black tar roads, light reflecting off tall glassed buildings, not much breeze, too many people exhaling carbon dioxide, monoxide, car engines running hot, electricity heat everywhere and so on.

Yep - I think cities get about 5 degrees hotter than the countryside.

Bobby. wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2025 at 7:35pm:

Jasin wrote on Jan 3rd, 2025 at 7:30pm: Cities generate a lot of heat. Black tar roads, light reflecting off tall glassed buildings, not much breeze, too many people exhaling carbon dioxide, monoxide, car engines running hot, electricity heat everywhere and so on. Yep - I think cities get about 5 degrees hotter than the countryside.

I have driven along Alexandra Street Extended where the houses stop and this little rural area begins. You notice that the breeze becomes a bit cooler out there just for the 2 minutes of driving. Then it warms up as you go by the housing estate. It is more noticeable when you do this during the winter months.

I did pizza delivery in my teens. When I would go from the car to the house, you would notice the warmth coming off the houses as you approached. Outside of built-up residential areas, the place was cooler.

From space on the night side.
All that you see is millions of electric heaters (cities, towns, etc) warming the planet up.

Today’s temp here (eastern Melbourne area)
:o
Stuff going to the beach!

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Wasn't as hot as they projected for me.
It was warm, sure. But not hot.
But hey, I do live in an area that is listed in the top 10 weather zones in the world.

Ahhh. Nice cool breeze came in after 12. 😎

Jasin wrote on Jan 5^th, 2025 at 4:26pm:

Wasn't as hot as they projected for me. It was warm, sure. But not hot. But hey, I do live in an area that is listed in the top 10 weather zones in the world. Ahhh. Nice cool breeze came in after 12. 😎

still 36 in Melbun -  too bloody hot.

I'm stuck inside with the aircon on.  25 C  inside.

You live in an oven (city) Bobby.
It has turned you into a pizza.

Jasin wrote on Jan 5^th, 2025 at 4:33pm:

You live in an oven (city) Bobby. It has turned you into a pizza.

It's OK -
going down to 17 tonight  and only 21 tomorrow:

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

After midnight and it's still 27 in Melbourne.   :'(

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/observations/melbourne.shtml

19 C  now -  much welcome relief from the 3 day heatwave.

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/observations/melbourne.shtml