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B for me. The temps are an A, but the changeable summer weather and dryness bring the grade down. It does tend to get portrayed as wet, but the summers I saw there were dry, more like semi arid if anything. I don't think I ever saw a good rainfall there. Winter had quite a lot of fog when I was there, and I didn't see any frost during three winters (not full time though).
B for me. The temps are an A, but the changeable summer weather and dryness bring the grade down. It does tend to get portrayed as wet, but the summers I saw there were dry, more like semi arid if anything. I don't think I ever saw a good rainfall there. Winter had quite a lot of fog when I was there, and I didn't see any frost during three winters (not full time ). I did see it snow though, although would probably have to wait a long time to see it again.
The stats say the average lows in summer are up to 16C in the warmest month
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Maybe in the CBD, but not in the suburbs where most people live. In my opinion it is pretty ridiculous that the BOM still use that station for Melbourne's official temperatures.
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Oh, and for those donkeys that think Melbourne sucks in the thunderstorm department, just have a look at these images from Christmas 2011
Doesn't change the average of 10-15 thunderdays per year. The average here is about twice that, and it still seems like hardly any to me.
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I didn't see any frost during three winters (not full time ).
That's surprising really, the average number of mornings below 0C is around 1-4 days depending on the station. Which is still not very often, but the ground temp would be below 0C more often than that. Though I guess very close to the coast or on a hill frost would be very rare.
Maybe in the CBD, but not in the suburbs where most people live. In my opinion it is pretty ridiculous that the BOM still use that station for Melbourne's official temperatures.
Doesn't change the average of 10-15 thunderdays per year. The average here is about twice that, and it still seems like hardly any to me.
That's surprising really, the average number of mornings below 0C is around 1-4 days depending on the station. Which is still not very often, but the ground temp would be below 0C more often than that. Though I guess very close to the coast or on a hill frost would be very rare.
I was in Collingwood, but only for parts of winters. Plenty of chilly mornings, but I don't remember any frost. The nights that were coldest, often had fog, although I remember someone saying fog wasn't that common in Melbourne.
Maybe in the CBD, but not in the suburbs where most people live. In my opinion it is pretty ridiculous that the BOM still use that station for Melbourne's official temperatures.
Doesn't change the average of 10-15 thunderdays per year. The average here is about twice that, and it still seems like hardly any to me.
That's surprising really, the average number of mornings below 0C is around 1-4 days depending on the station. Which is still not very often, but the ground temp would be below 0C more often than that. Though I guess very close to the coast or on a hill frost would be very rare.
Good points there. Melbourne is spread out over a very large land-mass area with many microclimates hence I using this as a guide to several sites, not just Melbourne City: Victorian monthly temperature and rain summaries
Eastern suburbs usually get more rain than western areas due to the sheltering effect of the Otway Ranges - i.e - onshore SW airflow means showery conditions for the east and not much so for the west and quite the reverse in an SE airflow.
Melbourne has not recorded such good thunderstorms in many years, last being during the mid 90s - who could forget those wet and stormy Decembers of the late 80s and early 90s - but over the last two years or so, some really ferocious storms have been recorded in the city.
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Maybe in the CBD, but not in the suburbs where most people live. In my opinion it is pretty ridiculous that the BOM still use that station for Melbourne's official temperatures.
Yeah well that is the temp in the CBD and that's what's representative of the local climate for people that live and work there. And I'm sure there are many other cities in the world where the same is true.
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Doesn't change the average of 10-15 thunderdays per year. The average here is about twice that, and it still seems like hardly any to me.
It's not the best but still better than places like Adelaide, Perth, parts of California, PNW, parts of Europe, New Zealand etc. And Melbourne sure can deliver some severe thunderstorms so it's not as storm deprived as some people think.
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That's surprising really, the average number of mornings below 0C is around 1-4 days depending on the station. Which is still not very often, but the ground temp would be below 0C more often than that. Though I guess very close to the coast or on a hill frost would be very rare.
I'm quite surprised to see the amount of cold night inland SEQ gets.
Melbourne has not recorded such good thunderstorms in many years, last being during the mid 90s - who could forget those wet and stormy Decembers of the late 80s and early 90s - but over the last two years or so, some really ferocious storms have been recorded in the city.
You'll prolly wanna add the late 1990's and early 2000's to that list aswell.
And Sydney's sure had a few crap storm seasons in recent times
I'd say B- as the summers are slightly a little too cool for my liking. However I love the winter. Not a bad climate at all. Sun hours are good too.
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