Especially when it happens so soon after the lightning. I usually feel the static in the air when that happens since I’m up high.
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First heatwave of the warm season is looming for Canberra- several days of ~30C in the forecast starting from Sunday. There will also be wind on some of the days which is concerning for fires. It’s getting mighty dry now. This is why I prefer a stormy, humid summer nowadays: the lesser of two evils. Moderate summers are unfortunately a thing of the past in mainland SE Australia- it’s either bone dry with frequent heatwaves or excessively wet/humid with frequent storms. This is why Tassie is looking better and better…if you can weather the wind in spring!
This Melbourne pollen situation this season, today/tonight is absolutely horrific 
Almost makes it unbearable to be living here.
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I don’t know if I am the only one worried but I am getting increasingly more concerned about climate change and the impacts.
I have been in the US the past 3 weeks and when I researched the weather I thought I better pack a light jacket and multiple jumpers with temperatures set to average below 15 degrees in places like New York and Washington DC. I have not needed to use a jacket and barely need to use a jumper for longer than an hour in the mornings. Temperatures got to 30 degrees while I was in Washington DC and New York was above 20 nearly everyone of the 10 days I was there.
We also are seeing Europe and Asia with record highs. Mount Fuji didn’t get any snow fall for the first time in the month of October.
I am really concerned what will happen in the next 10 years.
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I was in San Francisco last month for 4 days. Every day was about 8-11 degrees warmer than the monthly average (so 31-34 instead of 23)
Wearher has been fairly normal back here for this time of year though.
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The last 3 nights here in Brisbane the temperature hasn’t dropped below 23 degrees at night,my air con has been running all the time when I’m home,and dew point is about 21 degrees,hot and sticky too.
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It’s getting to that time of year again, I haven’t had to use my air con yet this season for cooling, but it won’t be long.
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The air con I have is mine ,it was about $800 ,plus an extra $200 to pay a guy to install it for me.As it’s a window unit he only had to remove the screen from that window ,and place a glass panel in the gap and seal it with silicone.A split system would be more complicated to install like having to drill a hole in the wall.
7 years on and I don’t regret buying it as every summer seems to get hotter,if and when I move out of this unit I’ll have to get someone to remove it and replace the screen back in that window .
I now pay so much a fortnight towards my electricity bill and I’m still in credit thanks to the electricity rebate I received from the government recently
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That’s good that it works well, I’ve wondered what the window units were like. Mine is a split system.
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Geoscience Australia has received four reports from people who felt the earthquake.
Two people felt the quake in Augusta, one person in Margaret River and one person in Manjimup.
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Rain started at 10;30 am and it’s been teeming ever since in a narrow band of suburbs.
120mm on the rain gauge here. Potential flooding
⚠️⛈️Severe Thunderstorm Warning for heavy rainfall updated to include #Brisbane CBD and surrounds. The thunderstorm is currently moving south.
— Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland (@BOM_Qld) November 16, 2024
☔ 63mm already observed in Brisbane rain gauge, more than 130mm at Leslie Harrison Dam
Latest: https://t.co/FBmpsInT9o pic.twitter.com/ZvcYBttJPI
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Yeah it really came out of nowhere, didn’t it?! We only had about half that rain here on this side of town, but it was absolutely bucketing down for periods of the late morning and didn’t really abate until closer to 5pm.
Meanwhile, there are bushfires in Victoria at the same time, and we’re only in November. And here I was thinking how lush and green everything looked down there only a few weeks ago…
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A lazy 76mm of rain here yesterday. We’re now tallying over 300mm for the month so far. Fortunately, seems like the worst has passed now.
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TL; DR:
It’s the seabreeze, stupid.
Access to the seabreeze is strongly positively correlated with real estate values in Sydney. I was looking at a personal weather station right on Ben Buckler headland at Bondi; it didn’t get above 24C all day. To get a cooler maximum than that, you’d have to venture high into the Alps. So yeah, it’s probably worth the several million dollars to live on the beach if you’re in Sydney!
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Climate change is slowly bringing the sea inland, so good news for Penrith residents in the next 50 years.
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Penrith will be the new Bondi, the rest of Sydney will be swallowed up by melting ice caps!
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