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Your average is what, 25/26C high in the warmest month? That's not hot yet you get highs over 40C each year and even higher than that. You must have a days that are very cool most years then I'm guessing? I appreciate that you're perhaps more prone to heat than cold, maybe you can help shed some light on it?
Your average is what, 25/26C high in the warmest month? That's not hot yet you get highs over 40C each year and even higher than that. You must have a days that are very cool most years then I'm guessing? I appreciate that you're perhaps more prone to heat than cold but maybe you can help?
Average high is 26.6C in February, but high temps are never below 15C. A sub-15C high in summer would be considered an exceptional cold snap. We do get several 20-25C days which occur when the wind turns onshore after a cold front passes. The lowest high temps in Jan and Feb are typically about 20C.
Corvallis, OR recorded a 51 (10.6) on June 1, 1971. I was in college studying for exams so I probably didn't notice but I'll bet it was raining and windy as well.
June usually bears the brunt of the Northern Hemisphere's last gasps of winter but the northern Rockies got an early taste in 1992 when a blizzard roared into west-central Montana starting on August 22, 1968 and bulled its way south to the Wyoming border. By the time it got down to Yellowstone, it was mostly slush but the high country around Glacier Park got up to 18 inches of powder. Some communities immediately east of the mountains saw temperatures rise no higher than freezing. Didn't last long but while there it was a very unwelcome guest.....
Jesus christ I wonder what sort of conditions are required to get a 10C high in summer in Melbourne
It was way back in 1867, so I doubt there is any chance it will get anywhere near that low again. After all, Melbourne struggles to get highs that low even in mid winter these days.
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Originally Posted by dean york
Your average is what, 25/26C high in the warmest month? That's not hot yet you get highs over 40C each year and even higher than that. You must have a days that are very cool most years then I'm guessing? I appreciate that you're perhaps more prone to heat than cold, maybe you can help shed some light on it?
The average number of days >40C is less than two for Melbourne so 40C is not something that is reached every year, but it seems that in recent years 40C+ is becoming more common. Although there is usually a handful of sub-20C days each summer it is far more likely for it to be 10C above the average than 10C below the average.
Your average is what, 25/26C high in the warmest month? That's not hot yet you get highs over 40C each year and even higher than that. You must have a days that are very cool most years then I'm guessing? I appreciate that you're perhaps more prone to heat than cold, maybe you can help shed some light on it?
It sounds like Melbourne's highs are positively skewed, with a majority of maxima below the mean (25°C) but not by a large amount while less frequent days much hotter than the mean skew the average. Distribution looks like this:
For Paris-Montsouris since 1873, it's 11.3°C, on June 12th, 1941.
Thats what makes me think the 11c suggestion for london is wrong. I mean, i read it was 7c in london somewhere and if paris can have a max of 11c then we can get much colder. Remember we are much colder in the summer (we often have maxes in low teens several times each summer) it is common to have negative uppers a few times each summer. I think we had -3c uppers last july.
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