(Posted originally in the Rain thread, incorrectly - sorry!)
Melbourne’s (Olympic Park) minimum temperature last night was 20.1°C, only 0.4°C off the all time record for September (20.5°C) from 1999.
Worth noting that the record was late September (29th), not so early (3rd).
That’s over 160 years of records.
Was the warmest first day of Spring for 15 years I heard.
http://www.australianweathernews.com/data/archive/86/
Great site here with data of Melbourne (and surrounding stations) temperature & rainfall back to 1855.
Definitely the warmest start to Spring in some time.
Post reported.
Melbourne looking superb this morning.
Cracker.
Friggin’ EARTHQUAKE!
That was interesting.
Widespread tremors in Melbourne, Geelong and Leongatha, Wonthaggi Ballarat, Korrumburra, Cobden reported.
House shook
Didn’t reach Warrnambool, I understand. I was punching out z’s at the time, but got messages from Geelong saying it was big there.
The predicted event has not eventuated,… and won’t tomorrow either, with minimal amounts listed on the 3 hr graph.
Not sure if petered out, but Thursday is the only day where Thunderstorms are now forecast.
Checked my BOM app and it says there will be no weather on Sunday.
Not sure what no weather looks like, but we’ll find out. I’m assuming there’s a Sunday and we’re not just skipping to Monday. Weirdest daylight saving coming up.
You’ve missed the point, @Bomb_Doe. Sunday won’t exist. The move to daylight saving has been taken “to the next level”, as they say, and we’ll be advancing our clocks 25 hours, not just a paltry one hour.
That looks anti-cyclonic, unless my eyes are deceiving me. Anti-clockwise rotation. Very rare in this part of the world.
Tornado took everyone by surprise?
Supercells were forecast, please, BOM explain to people what that actually means.
Not everyone has seen “Twister”
I’m guessing warnings for tornadoes aren’t a thing here, at least that I know of.
Does the BOM ever at least account for conditions that may spawn them? I’d think professional meteorologists here would at least be familiar with certain parameters that would make them more likely for a given time and area.
Don’t seem to be any warnings and few are recorded as many are on remote lands .
Maybe planes avoid them if supercells are forecast
The last one sighted here was in Bendigo in 2003.
There is no season, but more likely in humid conditions.
Willly Willys of dust twisters in the outback are similar
Who knows how long tornadoes have occurred here, we do not have high density of population in the inland areas to be impacted, so tornadoes might have gone un-noticed in the past. Given the present more extensive air exchange as the greater amount of heat in the atmosphere balances out, supercells are likely to increase in frequency, so, tornadoes and severe microbursts are certain to become more frequent in Australia. Its just a matter of where they occur. The most likely spots are inland, but occurence of severe convective evens like microbursts near Sydney or Brisbane cannot be ruled out when supercells occur.
Direct me to the one where we can talk about rain. G Town getting hammered at the moment.
