+100 mm overnight in parts of SEQ and it’s still raining
Now approaching 200mmm
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Forecast even as of last night was a chance of maybe 30mm today, yet most places had three figures overnight. Not showing any signs of letting up now either.
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Beautiful one day, perfect the next.
If you breathe with gills.
I think we should keep an eye out for a potential cyclonic activity next weekend up in north WA, potentially near Exmouth.
Sick of this weather. Min was 27 deg , SST’s are 29 deg ! No rain here in Yeppoon either. Looks like driest since 2006.
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There are reportedly some severe storms in SEQ this afternoon. Heard a Sunshine Coast station apologising that all the stations might be intermittently off air.
According to the BOM radar, a storm has just passed over the Bald Knob TX site area.
That seems to be the main area of activity in SEQ at the moment.
Thankfully the storms and humidity have relented a bit here… minimum of 8 this morning and similar is forecast for tomorrow. Despite a completely sunny day it only reached 21C, which is classic Tasmanian or South Island NZ summer weather.
It’s only a short lived burst of autumn though as we’re straight back up into the mid to high 20s tomorrow, then remaining in the high 20s throughout the forecast period. Dewpoints will be a bit lower than in Jan/Feb however, and the nights are generally cooler because of their increased length. It should only touch around 30 at the highest which is typical of March heat in this part of the world; days above 35C become pretty rare now.
I noticed Adelaide is in the 30s all week after having quite a cool summer, the mildest of the capital cities compared to average. This has been a persistent pattern for quite a while, hot in Perth and Sydney and cooler in the middle in South Australia. There is a blocking high in the Tasman setting up- a rarity this season- which could produce some coastal tropo in NSW.
I don’t expect autumn will show up with any great authority until after the equinox here, and probably well into April in places like Sydney and Newcastle.
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It’s been nice to sit outside tonight and DX with trackies on and knocking back a few cold ones!
Won’t last long I know, but i hope you’re wrong about summer lasting into April here. I’m over summer.
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I hope it is not like last year Yeppoon had a record broken getting to 35 deg in April which is not usual for here. Unusual to see any days over 30 deg in April .
We’ve had triple the amount of 30 deg days nearly every month of summer.
Even winter just gone the dew points were not dropping and was still around 18 deg and at lowest 15 deg . The sea temps did drop a bit in Spring so October was normal temps but then sometime around December it got hot again in the ocean.
10 deg on the beach in the morning in winter did not even feel cold … i mean yeah the sea is warmer up here in winter but the whole air it was odd it was lacking a coolness in the air . I was sweating in August walking the dog in the evening and I don’t usually sweat unless it is sticky. August felt warm… there was a lack of cold air coming up this way. I think winter was just 1 month in May and that was it lol.
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I hope Perth gets a very wet winter this year, but according to the climate drivers it doesn’t look like its happening at all.
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I note the BOM are predicting a warmer and drier than normal autumn for most of Australia.
I have the say the weather this week has been quite nice, still sunny and warm but not as humid as it was a few weeks ago. And the nights are a bit cooler too. Next week’s forecast here is pretty similar.
Melbourne heading for 39 this Saturday. Deffo weird weather all round atm.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to go to Melbourne…
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Ha and it’s getting worse (or better 
). 39 tomorrow, Sunday and Monday.
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And where I’m staying doesn’t have air conditioning.
Oh no.
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