I used to work with someone a bit older than me (so mid-late 50s) and he said he loved living in Darwin, even though he grew up in Adelaide (where he had to move back to for a while for family reasons).. he said he’d move back to Darwin if he could, he still loved that kind of weather.
The cousin I have in Cairns, also lived in Darwin when he was in his early 20s, he only lasted 18 months before moving to Cairns, he said he ‘couldn’t take another Darwin summer’ (those were his exact words).
Funny how we are all different like that.. but life would be boring if we were all the same and liked the same things!
Just approaching the baker’s dozen of years now. The first summer was a shock (I moved up in January which was a terrible idea but worked for work mainly) and reckon it got easier after a year or two, but then harder again. The last few summers have been a real slog
So normally in winter, if the SAM is negative it means that there is an increase chance of rainfall for the southern states, is that the same for summer?
Negative SAM in summer brings wind and heat to NSW and QLD, occasional snowfall to the Alps and windy, cold and wet for western TAS. That’s basically what we’ve seen since September. The only regions that are reliably wetter are western TAS and maybe far SW VIC. We have been lucky that the fronts have peaked over us, giving Victoria and SA half decent rain and dribs and drabs as far east as Canberra. If the fronts peaked over WA instead it would have been a whole lot worse.
Saturday may be a key day for bushfire danger in NSW. I am hoping that the SAM has bottomed now and we start moving back toward more typical summer weather (easterlies). NOAA and BOM both suggest a return to neutral after Christmas, here’s hoping. The lead up to Christmas may be a testy period for those in eastern Aus.
I swear Northern NSW Weather works mysteriously.. Legit is 23°c, got a ‘storm’ on top of us. only rain. Had wind prior to the storms arrival. Just 50km West, small town getting battered with hail. Again I call this "‘The Clarence Valley Dome”
UPDATE: I check the radar again, Looks like a darn hook echo formed over Jackadgery… Got some thunder here rn.
It never ends in Northern NSW. The chaos never ends
