True, but hot days don’t happen at all in Bungendore until at least the October long weekend, which is my point 
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Mean 24 hr temps in Bungendore generally don’t reach 15C (‘warm’) until November, peaking at a bearable 19-20C in January or February. Sydney’s mean 24 hr temp is already 15C in September or even late August (only bottoms at about 12C in June/July).
This weather is freaking ridiculous.
It’s 4am on the last day of winter and its still 20 degrees outside.
Hasn’t gotten below 19 all night.
I think we may have set a new record since BOM says the highest August min temp ever recorded here was 17.6
Yep. Had another front pass through overnight which was meant to be less than a couple of the others but the one coming tonight and into tomorrow is meant to be worse.
I have never seen so many places with wind speeds over 100km/h recorded. This is just for last night with over 20 places on the list and Devonport and Burnie not far off with 98.
| Maatsuyker Island | 165 |
|---|---|
| Luncheon Hill | 156 |
| Low Rocky Point | 150 |
| kunanyi / Mount Wellington | 150 |
| Scotts Peak | 148 |
| Kennaook / Cape Grim | 143 |
| Strahan | 135 |
| Hogan Island | 132 |
| Mount Read | 130 |
| Smithton | 124 |
| Swan Island | 113 |
| Hartz Mountains | 113 |
| King Island Airport | 111 |
| Flinders Island Airport | 109 |
| Cape Sorell | 109 |
| Low Head | 107 |
| Tasman Island | 106 |
| Larapuna (Eddystone Point) | 104 |
| Launceston Airport | 100 |
| Cape Bruny AWS | 100 |
| Devonport Airport | 98 |
| Wynyard | 98 |
I know Devonport had one gust at 110km/h the other night and even in our backyard where the anenometer is only a couple of metres off the ground and is reasonably shaded and it has been recording over 60km/h regularly which I have never had before.
The forecaster from the BoM on the radio this morning said that he had never seen so many storm force wind warnings and gale force warnings in his 8 years in Tasmania. There are flood warnings, storm force warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings at times, dangerous abnormally high tide warnings and currently 66 power outages listed on the TasNetworks website with around 20,000 people without power. If the decision hadn’t been made to cease the industrial action until this period is over that would be even worse and there could be delays of potentially weeks. Thankfully our power from the other day came back on Monday evening after 30 hours without after TasNetworks and the union finally came to a truce agreement otherwise we could have had a couple more days without.
Then on the news we hear about the record heat and highs as I can feel the snow in the air and we’re expecting one of the biggest dumps of snow in years to continue. Tasmania is definitely not for the faint hearted at the moment and hats off to all those currently doing crossings on the Spirit of Tasmania each night.
The wind is the main thing that puts me off Tassie along with having to get on a plane or boat to get anywhere. Thankfully the towns I would consider, Sheffield and Deloraine, were among the least windy places as they’re a bit inland.
NSW definitely has it over TAS when it comes to all other forms of extreme weather, though. But wind and flooding may get worse in the decades to come down there as well. Flooding might increase in northern TAS due to tropical air incursions traversing Bass Strait and then lifting orographically over TAS. Sheffield might be especially prone to very heavy rainfall in the future because of the proximity of Mount Roland, hope not.
Sheffield often cops it from the wind or the roads surrounding with trees so that can often lead to delays for people travelling to work in Devonport or around those areas. Deloraine, currently underwater in many places from the pics I was seeing last night. Great that it missed the wind but also is one of the first places to go under.
Here’s the forecast winds for 8pm tonight as the next front passes through starting anytime from now. Hoping we can keep power but it’s getting darker and darker out there and light drizzle. TasNetworks outages now sitting at 77 so it has grown throughout the day unfortunately but the number of customers out is thankfully lower.
I also found out that I lost the side mirror cover for my car yesterday and haven’t been able to find it by retracing where I went yesterday. Based on the fact that it has been 24 hours and with the winds I have narrowed the search area to Burnie in the west (even though I was only around Devonport), New Zealand in the East, Melbourne in the north and the South Pole. There is a slight chance that it could have done more of a circumnavigation however so any South African members please keep an eye out for it too.
Yeah, I need to plan a trip to Tassie in September to gauge the wind for myself. Plenty of time to do so though; moving down is a prospect for the very long term future, probably retirement. I’m also considering far southern NZ, though Tassie comes without the hassles of moving to another country.
Bungendore is protected from most weather systems, though we still get too many storm days for my liking (running a TEF node would be impossible in summer!) Bushfires and floods are a threat but less so than many other places. It’s the best you can do on the mainland but the mainland is still more extreme than Tassie, and warming faster than Tassie as well overall.
Meteologix and Windy dot com are great, free weather resources 
New records set - several places recording wind speeds and gusts to qualify as Category 3 cyclones. 187km/h is huge and 172km/h for Mt Wellington in Hobart.
Our power has flickered several times including just then and the Spirit of Tasmania is staying in Devonport tonight with all the passengers onboard until it sails at 7:30am tomorrow morning instead of overnight. There’s currently only one operating as the other one is in dry dock in Sydney so that’s helpful.
TasNetworks currently has over 112 incidents and constantly going up despite many faults actually getting fixed - I don’t remember ever seeing it that high before and the Bridgewater Bridge into Hobart is likely to be closed later because of the storm surges pushing the Derwent River over the highway. Good thing the new bridge is higher!
The new TasAlerts app was launched recently too so all the government agencies have been pushing that one where they can and the website which is also quite full.
The next front will be passing over Melbourne in the coming hours.
Possible winds 130-140km/h possible into the evening.
Spirit has cancelled all crossings also.
Melbourne Trop Cyclone Cat 2 lol. Looking forward in a few days when we can sleep without all the noise.
I think it was only the one Spirit sailing rescheduled. The night sailing from Devonport to Geelong last night left at 7:30 this morning from Devonport and the day sailing that was scheduled for today has been rescheduled. The second Spirit has left Sydney after dry dock and is en route to return to service straight away to help with the backlog as there have been day and night sailings thrown out of whack by the postponement last night.
Looking forward to the end of all of this though - has been a very, very long week.
I think I only got a decent sleep last night as the previous 7 in which I didn’t finally caught up with me.
I’ve cut all the branches away that have been impacting the fence, I’ve tried to ‘de rattle’ the garden to reduce the noise. Who would have thought one branch hitting the fence all night would drive us and the neighbours bonkers.
Will stick my head out the back door at 2am and see if the trees are blowing sideways 
I don’t want to speak too soon but I think we are done. Finally. It’s now been a few hours since the last really windy rain shower went through and it’s been a while since the rumbles of thunder and it looks like after 8 days Tasmania can start to clean up and return to normal.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like what’s happened this past week. We get intense cold fronts every year, especially right at the changeover of August and September. We get battered by front after front but I’ve never seen it where there have been record breaking fronts followed by another one breaking those records and then another one.
Last night I didn’t think would be too bad but it was by far the worst one. It honestly felt like a cyclone. I watched the cameras in my backyard and I could see the trees being blown in one direction before going in the other. School was very eerie today with a lot of cleaning up and a lot of squalls passing through. Many teachers and students unable to make it and for those who could it was like swapping war stories of how many trees they’d seen out, who still had power and who didn’t and what items of furniture had been lost or gained including garden sheds and trampolines.
When the rain was beating against my window at 70km/h+ consistently and I was listening to creaks I’ve never heard before and seeing the gusts at the Airport getting well over 100km/h I was just wanting it all to stop. Then it did. It was scarier with the dead silence than when it all happened. No warning, all wind and rain stopped and it was silent. I was waiting for it to all start again and wondering if there was somehow some “eye” in this storm but thankfully I finally fell asleep after seeing reports of all the carnage it was now causing in Launceston.
It truly is like after a cyclone event though - phones and power are out and will be for days and potentially weeks for some. Mobile phones are down. Rivers are still flooding and towns evacuated. The TasNetworks power outages were well over 200 and have only just gotten back below that level tonight. At one stage I think they said that over 40,000 customers were offline including the majority of Launceston and major sections of Devonport and Burnie and I think even some outages in Hobart still. The SES reported unprecedented levels of calls. TasWater have asked for people to conserve water across much of the North West and other sites because of the power outages and it’s causing issues with the stations and the councils were out in force today repairing roads, clearing up trees (some of which fell on houses) and trying to restore all their services for people.
I’m off to bed now. Hoping to get the first good sleep in a week and hopefully tomorrow the skies will be a bit less grey, much less windy and hopefully we get a bit of warmth back. For now, I’m going to remember this event and the fear it generated and the damage just like the suspected tornado that went through in the late 90’s.
The Spirits of Tasmania will hopefully be back on schedule again soon too - SPoT II arrived back to Devonport this morning from dry dock in Sydney and was straight back into service doing a day sailing to Geelong. They didn’t even have time to prepare the kitchen or load up food with passengers told to bring their own for the day I believe. Hopefully the seas calm down too so the spewing over the side doesn’t affect the new paint job.
Industry to be more accountable as robustness of Triple Zero service delivered.
The 2023 Optus outage, which impacted millions of Australians, posed a serious risk to public safety and impacted Australia in many ways.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has today been tasked with amending the regulations that require industry to deliver calls to emergency services.
There is also a requirement for carriers to ensure mobile phone calls are able to access Triple Zero on other mobile networks during outages, addressing the technical fault which resulted in many Optus customers being left unable to reach Triple Zero during the outage.
Providers will be required to share real time network information with participants in the Triple Zero ecosystem. This will both increase visibility of future outages and provide valuable information to front line emergency service organisations, particularly during natural disasters.
There are also new requirements for industry to report to Government after major outages, including a plan to reduce the risk of similar outages occurring in future.
In addition to implementing these recommendations resulting from the Optus outage review, there will also be new requirements for providers to identify mobile phones unable to access Triple Zero and notify customers. This will ensure consumers are aware of this risk before it is too late.
Perth weather: Spring forecast shows below average rainfall (watoday.com.au)
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Also in Central Qld the night went up to more like a November min … forecast was for 19 deg but hard to tell as sometimes it says 19c and wind drops off and is cooler but turned out warmer
Yeppoon
Oddly that 4th of September min was a day that was cool and cloudy so that night was windy from the SE so feels like temps were around 16-17 .
Last night feels like was 21 deg… i thought if i slept with the window open it might be too cool sometimes that happens…
Hard to tell at this time of year . Normally windows stay closed at night until October.
Feels like a Polar blast has hit Melbourne this arvo, looks like a pretty ordinary week ahead, Saturday we have a Max of 11.
A hail storm hit Castlemaine in central Victoria at 5pm yesterday, causing damage to the roofs of many historic buildings.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says there is no tsunami headed to Australia after sending a false warning to half the country earlier today.
The warning was sent via push notification to the BOM app, third-party weather apps, and the social media website X.
It was marked “test” and included tsunami watch warnings for Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland.
I didn’t get it so now I have FOMO. 
