Australian Weather (temp, freezing, humidity, dewpoint)

[mattyj46]

Originally Posted by Power Storm

We do, SAB is being psychastic a little... Summer is our storm period, but we also get them in Winter, but in a shorter life span!!!

Check this website for further info: http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/vic/sevwx/

Cheers

Ahhh thought that would of been usual for you guys to not get storms in summer!

[§AB]

Last time I saw a bolt of lightning in winter might have been in 2005, and we got perhaps 2 or 3 storms last summer.

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by §AB

Last time I saw a bolt of lightning in winter might have been in 2005, and we got perhaps 2 or 3 storms last summer.

You only had 2-3 thunderstorms last summer?

We probably get 20-30 in a normal summer.
So far since the beginning of June we've had maybe 4-6 thunderstorms.

[§AB]

^^ yep. This year so far we had a grand total of ONE! And even that was a half arsed effort.

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by §AB

^^ yep. This year so far we had a grand total of ONE! And even that was a half arsed effort.

does it seem strange to you that we get that many t-storms in a cold climate like Toronto?

I'm guessing the reason you don't get many thunderstorms is that Melbourne is a pretty dry climate, like has dry seasons and nearly all of your heat and warmth is dry.

[dxiweodwo]

actually, I think Melbourne is surrounded by cold water and when winds blow over it all it does is produce overcast skies and not much precip, kinda similar to Seattle, while since Toronto is closer to the Atlantic(warm body of water) i guess the humidity levels are higher in Toronto which in turn, produces more t-storms

[ausweatherman]

Melbourne is often very overcast and most of the precipitation they get is light rain or drizzle, except in summer they can get some decent thunder storms.

[Power Storm]

Very true usweatherman!

Alright.... During Summer Melbourne gets about 6 thunderstorms...., some years less and some years more! It just depends on the El Nino and the La Nina and how the season shapes up.

During Winter, Melbourne gets about 2 cold-based storms which are short lived and very weak...

For Victoria as a whole, we get too many storms to count, and a lot of them are severe with the about 2 tornadoes every Summer, with many waterspouts...

[§AB]

Originally Posted by dxiweodwo

actually, I think Melbourne is surrounded by cold water and when winds blow over it all it does is produce overcast skies and not much precip, kinda similar to Seattle, while since Toronto is closer to the Atlantic(warm body of water) i guess the humidity levels are higher in Toronto which in turn, produces more t-storms

Actually, the cold water lies to the south. When winds blow from the north, it brings hot and dry weather, when they blow from the south, it brings cool and often cloudy weather. Hence our lack of storms.

We have virtually no humidity in summer. The only time dewpoints reach 20ºC in Melbourne is when tropical cloudmass and rain spreads across Victoria in summer, or during summer showers and storms. Highest dewpoint I've seen here was 24ºC. Our summer dewpoints however average less than 10ºC.

[ColdCanadian]

Maybe it's because Toronto is often between clashing warm and cold fronts, even in midsummer sometimes.

We're humid 80-90% of the time, so that probably helps.

Our lakes reach the 70's by mid-summer since we don't really have any currents, so that adds a bit of humidity...

But also, when the winds blow from the south- we get air from the Mississippi Valley, perhaps the most humid region in America.

When the winds blow from the north, it's colder, drier air from the Arctic and sub-arctic.

So Melbourne has cold-and-wet or hot-and-dry?

Toronto's winds are typically cold and dry(er) or warm and (often) humid from the Gulf of Mexico/Mississippi Valley.