Honestly if you want somewhere where it’s stays fairly cool throughout summer most of the time, Move to Glen Innes. Because I swear everytime I check the BOM Observations, Glen Innes is at 24-27 degrees.. Meanwhile Grafton is sitting with 29-33 degrees. Then Inverell is the same as Grafton. Always bloody hot!
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Geez I’ve got my comeuppance for daring to make such a statement. Genuinely Sauna-like out there this morning, dew points nudging 25.
Off to WA then Victoria in a couple of weeks time, pity it’s not today.
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There was a full report on the Bundaberg flood on ABC News Victoria last night.
The flood is so serious that Premier Crisafulli is in town.
I had a look at the Bundaberg weather observations.
They’ve had 207 mm of rain in the 4 days (160 mm in the last 2 days). To be honest, that isn’t a lot by major flooding standards. Must be an area that doesn’t drain that well?
Guyra is even cooler being 1330 m ASL, which means temps rarely get over 30. However, mitigating that is the extreme UV in summer which makes those temps feel hotter than at sea level.
Even here (700 m), the same temp feels warmer than at sea level. 19C feels much cooler in southern VIC on the coast than here in summer; I can comfortably be in short sleeves here whereas at Cape Bridgewater I had to resort to a light pullover in the mornings. It’s not just windchill either as Bungendore still gets fairly windy with the summer easterlies.
We had a minor earthquake in the region tonight, epicentre near Boorowa. I assumed the rattling was from wind (which had been quite gusty today).
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That is due to the hot SSTs, which have reached nearly 27C offshore from Sydney. Meanwhile the SSTs have barely warmed at all in the Southern Ocean- any time a cool change enters the Tasman Sea at this time of year, biblical rain and storms are the result as the cool air passes over that hot water.
Meanwhile here, there’s a definite hint of autumn in the air this morning. It was a hot night when I went to bed but I woke up rather cold. There is the chance of mornings below 10C this weekend. Historically that’s nothing special but in the current climate, cool mornings are rare in Feb and March.
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Looking well, already at cat 5 with chatter that it is matching Yasi on some like-for-like stage parameters already. Easy potential for reinvigoration on the other side entering the NT.
The event of the season is here it appears.
Severe cyclone Narelle was a category 4 with sustained winds of 195 km/h. It impacted WA back in 2013.
Narelle 2.0 will make landfall as a category 5 at around 230 km/h. Imagine the damage it’s going to cause. Then consider there could be up to three landfalls (QLD, NT, WA).
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So there was a Cyclone Narelle back in 2013, why would they recycle the name for this cyclone?
Isn’t the point of naming cyclones and weather events so that they are distinct and recognisable?
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Because cyclone names are recycled every 6 years until they get “retired” due to significant damage or loss of life.
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How was Narelle 1.0 not enough? Alfred got retired and wasn’t on the scale of anything in the Narelle history
Narelle 1.0 stayed very much offshore and made no direct landfall. The monetary damage was less than $70,000.
(Made a bit of mistake above re. death toll - that was Indonesia’s.)
But trust me, if everything plays out as expected, 2.0 will be the last Narelle ever.
Narelle will never die. She just sits there, waiting…waiting for her next chance to be the all encompassing bitch she is. 
Tropical system names are only retired for their particular region as well. For example, I think we can still have TC Katrina in Australia despite the hurricane of the same name.