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Here the things continue to being thermally "iddle", but we had a strong complex of storms across the Pampas yesterday, including a small tornado reported in Santa Fe province. Photo of the storm front traversing that province:
However the temps gonna start to pick up by this weekend, with widespread 40's in the north for multiple days and maybe even topping 45C, we'll see...
Was browsing the weather app at work earlier today when I found a coastal spot in northwest Australia where the current dew point was above 28 C. Took this screenshot when I saw the forecast dew point on Saturday will be over 30 C!
I've noticed the places in the world with the highest dew points are in coastal/near-coastal areas of tropical deserts during the "summer" season where it gets very hot in the interior. For the Northern Hemisphere, this is usually around the Persian Gulf and the (Iranian Plateau side of the) Lower Indus Valley of Pakistan. Although the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden would be a very close runner-up. For the Southern Hemisphere, this is northwestern Australia where it's humid enough to experience a monsoon, but doesn't receive enough rainfall to not be a (semi)arid climate.
Was browsing the weather app at work earlier today when I found a coastal spot in northwest Australia where the current dew point was above 28 C. Took this screenshot when I saw the forecast dew point on Saturday will be over 30 C!
I've noticed the places in the world with the highest dew points are in coastal/near-coastal areas of tropical deserts during the "summer" season where it gets very hot in the interior. For the Northern Hemisphere, this is usually around the Persian Gulf and the (Iranian Plateau side of the) Lower Indus Valley of Pakistan. Although the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden would be a very close runner-up. For the Southern Hemisphere, this is northwestern Australia where it's humid enough to experience a monsoon, but doesn't receive enough rainfall to not be a (semi)arid climate.
'False Mouth Of The Ord' ? Well thats a new one.....dunno if thats an official BOM site...haha. Kununurra and Wyndham are the official sites nearby in the northern East Kimberley of Western Australia.
However I can confirm that the coastal regions of Northern Australia do see DP'S around the 30c mark at this time of the year. Not as bad as the Persion Gulf/Red Sea, but still very oppressive. Here is a selection of crappy days I screen shotted last wet season.
Very ordinary !
And Darwin Airport yesterday
Selected sites, coastal and inland a couple of days ago.
Marble Bar today and the next 7 days. Coastal Port Hedland forecast 47c, same as Roebourne.
Marble Bar's record maximums for the date are 46.3°C at the current station and 46.7°C at the old station so a daily record should be in play. However the monthly record for December, 49.3°C from December 27, 2018, seems out of reach.
One interesting statistic is the highest monthly mean maximum. For December the records for December are 43.9°C at the old site and 44.1°C at the new site (don't know the years, sorry); annually it is 44.9°C in some February sometime (again don't know the exact year--can't figure out how to extract that from the BOM site).
Anyway, the average for the month so far is 45.2°C and if the forecast is accurate it should still be ~45.2°C after the 25th. So a good chance of the hottest December ever and possibly even the hottest month ever. I'd even say the only thing that could stop the monthly record would be the arrival of a tropical depression and I see no sign of that.
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