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Dec 16^th, 2024 at 6:56am

Scary heat today in Melbourne and much of the South East Australia:

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

Forecast for the rest of Monday

Summary

Max 41

Late cool change. Windy.
Chance of any rain: 20%
Melbourne area

Mostly sunny morning, with cloud increasing from the west in the afternoon.
Slight chance of a shower in the late evening.
The chance of a thunderstorm with little or no rainfall from the early afternoon.
Thunderstorms possibly severe with damaging winds.
Winds northerly 35 to 50 km/h shifting cooler south to southwesterly 15 to 25 km/h in the late evening.

It's already 33.5 C in Adelaide.
http://www.bom.gov.au/sa/observations/adelaide.shtml

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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #1 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 7:14am Alice Springs will be 43 today: http://www.bom.gov.au/nt/forecasts/alice-springs.shtml Sydney only 29 http://www.bom.gov.au/nsw/forecasts/sydney.shtml
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 26224 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #2 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 12:51pm We are getting some rain and cool breeze. Melbourne is getting hot northerlies.
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #3 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 1:15pm UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 12:51pm: We are getting some rain and cool breeze. Melbourne is getting hot northerlies. Rockhampton is 30.7 right now. http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94374.shtml Melbourne is 35 C at 2:15 pm. http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/observations/melbourne.shtml
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Belgarion Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6164 Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #4 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 2:28pm It's called summer...happens every year.
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Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat
Reply #5 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 3:17pm

https://www.farmonlineweather.com.au/news/victoria-soars-to-47c-for-first-time-s...

Victoria soars to 47°C for first time since Black Summer

Anthony Sharwood, Monday December 16, 2024 - 14:26 AEDT

For the first time since the fateful Black Summer, the mercury has reached 47°C in Victoria, as an intense heatwave bakes large parts of eastern Australia including a big chunk of our southernmost mainland state.

Shortly after 2pm, the mercury peaked at 47.1°C at Walpeup, a tiny town in the Mallee region in the state's northwest with a population of around 150.

As of 3pm Monday (AEDT), temps had reached 44°C or higher at several locations in the Mallee and Wimmera districts including Mildura (45.1°C), Hopetoun Airport (45.4°C), Swan Hill (45°C) and Horsham (44°C).

Even Victoria's southern coastline has not been spared today's extreme heat, with Warrnambool reaching 41.2°C just after 1pm before rapidly shedding more than 10 degrees within half an hour as a cooler west-southwesterly change pushed through.

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Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat
Reply #6 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 3:33pm

I was whingeing about 35°C the other week. But, I could not imagine the 47°C.

I suffered through hot humid weather the other week until I decided to go see a documentary at the cinema. Best $18 I have spent. Free food after the event.

Hope we get a lot more than 25mm of rainfall tomorrow and Wednesday. Low pressure system hanging off the coast moving northwest.

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Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat
Reply #7 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 3:38pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 3:33pm:

I was whingeing about 35°C the other week. But, I could not imagine the 47°C.

I suffered through hot humid weather the other week until I decided to go see a documentary at the cinema. Best $18 I have spent. Free food after the event.

Hope we get a lot more than 25mm of rainfall tomorrow and Wednesday. Low pressure system hanging off the coast moving northwest.

On Black Saturday in 2009 it reached 46 C degrees at my place.

https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/black-saturday-bushfires

I went outside with bowls of water to save the birds - that were falling out of the sky.
I saved many of them.

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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21498 Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #8 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 4:47pm Wapeup weather records JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC ANNUAL High Max (°C) 46.6 48.1 41.7 38.9 30 25.4 28.8 29.7 35.4 40.2 45.2 47.7 48.1 https://www.weatherzone.com.au/station/SITE/76064/climate Record December 2019
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 57954 Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #9 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 5:34pm I've worked in a metal Foundry at the furnaces. It was 60C HTFU
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 26224 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #10 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 6:41pm I was doing deliveries the other week in hot afternoon weather. Friday and Saturday night was a matter of a bit of rain about. It was really good monsoonal type weather without the heavy rain.
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #11 - Dec 17^th, 2024 at 11:44am Jasin wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 5:34pm: I've worked in a metal Foundry at the furnaces. It was 60C HTFU harden up - LOL. It didn't get to 41 where I am - it peaked at about 39. The cool change later on at 9.00pm was welcome.
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #12 - Dec 17^th, 2024 at 6:41pm It's around 18 degrees right now - what a nice refreshing wind after the heat of yesterday. It will go down to 15 tonight - perfect. http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 26224 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #13 - Dec 17^th, 2024 at 7:55pm That is really weird weather. We have minimums getting no lower than 20°C by November. After that, it would take a rain event with heavy hail for the temperature at any part of the day to go below 20°C. It takes until April in the following year to see minimum temperatures get below 20°C.
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Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat
Reply #14 - Dec 17^th, 2024 at 9:07pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 17^th, 2024 at 7:55pm:

That is really weird weather. We have minimums getting no lower than 20°C by November. After that, it would take a rain event with heavy hail for the temperature at any part of the day to go below 20°C. It takes until April in the following year to see minimum temperatures get below 20°C.

That's why I like the Southern regions of Australia -
I also sleep better when we have cool nights.

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 26224 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #15 - Dec 19^th, 2024 at 3:05am Pissin' down rain outside and the Bureau of Meteorology has not updated the rainfall total in the last 2 hours.
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: summer weather Reply #16 - Dec 19^th, 2024 at 7:49am UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 19^th, 2024 at 3:05am: Pissin' down rain outside and the Bureau of Meteorology has not updated the rainfall total in the last 2 hours. yes - it's often wrong here too. http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94374.shtml
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #17 - Dec 19^th, 2024 at 5:21pm Melbourne - Xmas day 33 Boxing day 40. http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 26224 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #18 - Dec 19^th, 2024 at 5:45pm Christmas Eve is forecast to be 40°C. Christmas Day cools down to 33°C. But I will be around at my parents' place in the cool of the airconditioning to be bothered about typical Rockhampton maximum temperatures. Will be too busy watching movies in the loungeroom.
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Re: Summer weather- Xmas snow
Reply #19 - Dec 23^rd, 2024 at 2:41pm

Christmas snow in Victoria:

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/vic/w-and-s-gippsland/baw-baw

West and South Gippsland for Monday. Cloudy.
High chance of showers, most likely during the morning and afternoon.

Snow falling above 1300 metres in the morning and early afternoon.

The chance of a thunderstorm about the ranges early this morning.
Winds W/SW 30 to 45 km/h.

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Re: Summer weather- Xmas snow
Reply #20 - Dec 23^rd, 2024 at 2:50pm

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-23/white-christmas-nsw-snowy-mountains-tasma...

Snow flurries in NSW alps and Tasmanian ski fields give locals an early Christmas present
By James Tugwell and Manika Champ
ABC South East NSW

Topic:Snow

2h ago

As bushfires rage out of control in Victoria and parts of Queensland count the cost of recent floods, residents in the NSW Snowy Mountains and Tasmania woke this morning to find snow on the ground.

The Bureau of Meteorology had forecast snow to fall above 1,700 metres in the NSW alps today, but some locals have reported sightings of snow flurries as low as Cooma at 800m elevation.

Further south, snowfields in Tasmania recorded up to 5 centimetres of snow down to 1,500 metres.

Errol Hanlon from the Thredbo Alpine Museum said snow settled on shady ground, car windscreens, back decks and some rooftops around the village.

"We definitely woke up to a snow flurry," he said.

"It's an early present for all the little kids running around in their pyjamas this morning trying to make snowballs and snowmen."

Snow was spotted at Thredbo Resort this morning, but didn't stick around. (Supplied: Thredbo Resort)

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Re: Summer weather - Xmas snow
Reply #21 - Dec 23^rd, 2024 at 9:32pm

Mt Baw Baw 1.2 degrees
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/vic/w-and-s-gippsland/mt-baw-baw

Mount Buller 0.4 degrees.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/vic/north-east/mount-buller

Kunanyi/Mount Wellington Forecast in Tasmania 1 degrees tonight.
http://www.bom.gov.au/tas/forecasts/mtwellington.shtml

Will Monk get a white Xmas?

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 26224 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #22 - Dec 24^th, 2024 at 1:32pm Temperature is rising here. Too hot to do gardening. Will have to stay indoors and do some cleaning before Christmas Day.
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #23 - Jan 3^rd, 2025 at 4:34pm Heatwave for Melbourne. Today 30, Saturday 38, Sunday 37. http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml Too hot.
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 57954 Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #24 - Jan 3^rd, 2025 at 7:30pm Cities generate a lot of heat. Black tar roads, light reflecting off tall glassed buildings, not much breeze, too many people exhaling carbon dioxide, monoxide, car engines running hot, electricity heat everywhere and so on.
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Re: Summer weather
Reply #25 - Jan 3^rd, 2025 at 7:35pm

Jasin wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2025 at 7:30pm:

Cities generate a lot of heat. Black tar roads, light reflecting off tall glassed buildings, not much breeze, too many people exhaling carbon dioxide, monoxide, car engines running hot, electricity heat everywhere and so on.

Yep - I think cities get about 5 degrees hotter than the countryside.

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Re: Summer weather
Reply #26 - Jan 4^th, 2025 at 1:24pm

Bobby. wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2025 at 7:35pm:

Jasin wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2025 at 7:30pm:

Cities generate a lot of heat. Black tar roads, light reflecting off tall glassed buildings, not much breeze, too many people exhaling carbon dioxide, monoxide, car engines running hot, electricity heat everywhere and so on.

Yep - I think cities get about 5 degrees hotter than the countryside.

I have driven along Alexandra Street Extended where the houses stop and this little rural area begins. You notice that the breeze becomes a bit cooler out there just for the 2 minutes of driving. Then it warms up as you go by the housing estate. It is more noticeable when you do this during the winter months.

I did pizza delivery in my teens. When I would go from the car to the house, you would notice the warmth coming off the houses as you approached. Outside of built-up residential areas, the place was cooler.

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 57954 Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #27 - Jan 4^th, 2025 at 2:17pm From space on the night side. All that you see is millions of electric heaters (cities, towns, etc) warming the planet up.
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Sophia Gold Member Offline Posts: 9988	Re: Summer weather Reply #28 - Jan 4^th, 2025 at 4:08pm Today’s temp here (eastern Melbourne area) Stuff going to the beach!
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 57954 Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #29 - Jan 5^th, 2025 at 4:26pm Wasn't as hot as they projected for me. It was warm, sure. But not hot. But hey, I do live in an area that is listed in the top 10 weather zones in the world. Ahhh. Nice cool breeze came in after 12. 😎
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Re: Summer weather
Reply #30 - Jan 5^th, 2025 at 4:31pm

Jasin wrote on Jan 5^th, 2025 at 4:26pm:

Wasn't as hot as they projected for me.
It was warm, sure. But not hot.
But hey, I do live in an area that is listed in the top 10 weather zones in the world.

Ahhh. Nice cool breeze came in after 12. 😎

still 36 in Melbun - too bloody hot.

I'm stuck inside with the aircon on. 25 C inside.

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 57954 Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #31 - Jan 5^th, 2025 at 4:33pm You live in an oven (city) Bobby. It has turned you into a pizza.
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #32 - Jan 5^th, 2025 at 4:38pm Jasin wrote on Jan 5^th, 2025 at 4:33pm: You live in an oven (city) Bobby. It has turned you into a pizza. It's OK - going down to 17 tonight and only 21 tomorrow: http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #33 - Jan 5^th, 2025 at 11:22pm After midnight and it's still 27 in Melbourne. http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/observations/melbourne.shtml
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #34 - Jan 6^th, 2025 at 5:09am 19 C now - much welcome relief from the 3 day heatwave. http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/observations/melbourne.shtml
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #35 - Jan 27^th, 2025 at 6:34am A scary 41 degrees in Melbourne today. http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #36 - Jan 27^th, 2025 at 5:07pm Melbourne - It hit 40 - but now it's gone down to 27 - good!
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 121907 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Summer weather Reply #37 - Jan 28^th, 2025 at 7:24am It's a nice 18 degrees now - so refreshing after yesterday.
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