Spring Thread 2012- (Sept-Nov) - Southern Hemisphere (degrees, maximum, minimum)

[Galaxyman]

Another evening that was forecast to be clear is now going to be cloudy with friggin goddamn drizzle. No astronomy again, oh well, I'm going to drink a crap load of booze and watch my Family Guy DVDs.



Melbquarie Island

[RWood]

Originally Posted by Joe90

I guess that translates into north of any dividing range, and the east refers to a rainshadow effect?

BOP is similar to here, but without real mountains. Noticeably warmer though. Nice region.

Basically yes. The old MetService put out a nice climate zone map about 30 years ago, and part of BOP and part of Nelson was identified this way - the portions where the biggest rain contribution comes from N-NE events. Even with the lack of mountains the coastal fringes of BOP have quite a lot in common with Nelson-Motueka - a little less sun, comparable or slightly higher rainfall, and frost tendencies in cooler SW flows where the oceanic influence is briefly missing - the frostiness doesn't "see" the ocean.

Edit: looking at the monthly rainfall normals for Riwaka and Whakatane, the correlation coefficient is +0.86, which is pretty high.

[Candle]

Originally Posted by Galaxyman

Another evening that was forecast to be clear is now going to be cloudy with friggin goddamn drizzle. No astronomy again, oh well, I'm going to drink a crap load of booze and watch my Family Guy DVDs.



Melbquarie Island

We've got almost identical weather at the moment. 12C and light rain.

[sulkiercupid]

A maximum of 23C with 4mm of rain as well. Temperatures in the low-mid 20's for the rest of the week with lows above 10C.

[ChesterNZ]

Yesterday was a nightmare. Non-stop heavy rain and icy cold winds that never dropped below 30 km/h. Temp maxed out around 14 C in the morning but was around 6-7 C most of the day. Walking across the frozen tundra I was very nearly knocked off my feet by the gale force wind and every inch of exposed skin felt as though it was being stabbed with a thousand icicles. 28 mm at the airport yesterday with reports of nearly 100 mm in the city proper!

More crap today, and tomorrow, with temps more akin to mid-winter and constantly overcast skies. Tuesday-Wednesday might offer a momentary respite before switching back into subarctic mode. We're well on track for a record cold October.

October's avg low / high is 7 / 17 C, but so far almost every day has been below that with many days being 4-5 C below average! I can't believe it's this cold in the middle of spring. And it looks like getting even worse:


Today
High 12°C
Overnight 5°C

A few early showers, then fine. Southwest easing.

Issued: 3:37am 14 Oct

Tomorrow15 Oct
High 12°C
Overnight 3°C

Cloudy with a few showers. Southwesterly winds.

Issued: 3:37am 14 Oct

Tuesday16 Oct
High 17°C
Overnight 8°C

Mainly fine with light winds. Late northwester.

Issued: 1:16pm 13 Oct

Wednesday17 Oct
High 23°C
Overnight 11°C

Increasing high cloud. Gusty northwesterlies.

Issued: 1:16pm 13 Oct

Thursday18 Oct
High 17°C
Overnight 7°C

Showers. Westerlies.

Issued: 2:10am 14 Oct

Friday19 Oct
High 14°C
Overnight 5°C

A few showers with westerlies.

Issued: 2:10am 14 Oct

Saturday20 Oct
High 14°C
Overnight 5°C

Dry. Westerlies.

Issued: 2:10am 14 Oct

Sunday21 Oct
High 13°C
Overnight 4°C

Showers. Southwesterlies.

Issued: 2:10am 14 Oct

Monday22 Oct
High 14°C
Overnight 5°C

Rain. Northwesterlies.

Issued: 2:10am 14 Oct

Tuesday23 Oct
High 13°C
Overnight 5°C

Rain. Southwesterlies.

Issued: 2:10am 14 Oct

[koyaanisqatsi1]

Well the "ECL" was a huge disappointment, for here that is, with some heart-breaking "low" totals of 10 to 20 millimetres whilst parts of the NSW south coast recorded over 150-200mm of lovely rain - in some places the heaviest October falls in 15 to 20 years - and many areas in the Blue Mountains, hill countries and tablelands had their heaviest snowfalls in years which were regarded by many locals as the "best" of this year - that is to say it were better than the whole of this winter (June - August) season as well as recent preceding ones!
The only saving grace were the gale-force southerlies which reached speeds of nearly 90km/hr and the unusually low temperatures albeit for a brief period. On Friday morning at 9am in the city it was just 8C in an very icy SW wind - naturally - but had risen to 15C after 4pm after winds turned "milder" southerlies.
The next seven days (Sydney Forecast) looks like being a bit milder than usual but with no rain which isn't good. The milder minimums will be, however, quite welcome after a very cool first half with average minimums running one to two degrees C below average. Even the city, in spite of the ÃœHI" effect, has not escaped the coolness with the minimum running one degree C below average.
Had an overnight heavy shower which dumped over 2mm and today started off mostly cloudy until late morning.

[sulkiercupid]

^^Yeh it sucks to miss out on a good rain event, seem to get a lot of hit or miss events along the east coast, though you do get some massive totals every now and then which we can only dream about.

Have received 1.8mm of on/off rain and drizzle today here after 4mm yesterday, maximum around 23C which was pleasant. No significant rain forecast with temperatures to warm up to 31C by next Sunday. If this start to October is any indicator it'll be another significantly hotter than average summer.

[Galaxyman]

Today it was supposed to reach a high of 27C, but at 2:30pm it is only 21C so far and fully overcast

typical Melbourne fail at any attempt at warmth

[Galaxyman]

Well what do ya know, it did actually reach 27°C today after all! Some suburbs even hit 28°C.

But, ofcoruse tomorrow has been downgraded from 25C to 21C with clouds and rain as tradition dictates. Then a few more nice days before more wintry rainy overcast 18C crap to kick off the second half of spring

[marlaver]

43.6ºC now in Orán, in northwest, near the border with Bolivia!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Or%C3%A1n,_Salta

22.8ºC right now in BA. 75% humidity and upcoming rain.