Why are snowfall and slushy rain less common in Melbourne, compared to all other cities with similar winters? (ice, temperature)
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2C-3C lows are pretty frequent in the far west, such as in Campbelltown, Camden and Richmond. You should check out their climates. And still, no snow has been recorded there, not since 1986, when it melted on the ground. Read more about the history of snow in Sydney in this Wikipedia article.
I bet you only get lows like that when it's clear mornings and nights. A bit of overcast and rainfall and temperatures would be much milder. Too mild for Snow
I bet you only get lows like that when it's clear mornings and nights. A bit of overcast and rainfall and temperatures would be much milder. Too mild for Snow
My mother lives in Camden....they do get the odd decent frost in the Nepean River Valley, but always on clear cloudless nights. AU snow falls at altitude...modest sometimes, but nevertheless at altitude where the DALR of approx 1c reduction per 100m af altitude comes into play, The Sydney Basin low altitudes preclude it from snowfalls.
I bet you only get lows like that when it's clear mornings and nights. A bit of overcast and rainfall and temperatures would be much milder. Too mild for Snow
That's true, of course. Such lows only occur during clear nights. But my point was only that 3C nights are common in the far west.
About 95% of the time Australians report snow it was actually hail
I suspect the same is true here -an older reporting system used here showed that snowfall had been observed by an individual (the criteria) just about every year in Nelson, yet I've never talked to anyone who has seen falling snow in Nelson.
I suspect the same is true here -an older reporting system used here showed that snowfall had been observed by an individual (the criteria) just about every year in Nelson, yet I've never talked to anyone who has seen falling snow in Nelson.
Yep. Turns out that snow is unknown by people who live where snow is unknown.
Yep, but some people live within a few minutes drive of where snow falls every year, yet haven't seen snow.
It's fairly common around Cape Town, at least close up. Most winters you'll be able to see snow from the city but you'd have to make an effort to reach it and the visible snow would typically require a hike/climb.
You can see snow on the Helderberg here. It's no more than 8-9 km from the coast and those peaks are about 1000m so we're not talking super high mountains but the point from which the photo was taken has probably never recorded snow.
Peter Southwood, Wikimedia
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