Sydney New Year Fireworks are the best.
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They might be going ahead this year (and probably also next, since it seems like Sydneyâs New Years Eve fireworks are planned for 15 months in advance) but I reckon the City of Sydney might have to move away from fireworks on New Years Eve in the future.
The success of Vivid (which if Iâm not mistaken, doesnât use fireworks) during Winter over the past decade or so has shown that Sydney can do spectacular displays without fireworks.
Something of a rare occurrence, Hobart forecast for tomorrow is 40 degrees, I imagine that only happens once a year, some years not at all?
Melbourne and Adelaide also hitting the 40s tomorrow too, NSW to cop it on Tuesday, with a late gusty southerly change in the evening packing winds of up to 50 km/h which will probably spoil the Sydney Harbour fireworks spectacle somewhat.
Hobart has an annual average of 0.0 days where temps are 40°C & above.
Since records began in 1882, the city has recorded only 8 days of 40°C+, with the highest being 41.8°C, which occurred on 4th January 2013. The other years in which 40°C+ occurred was in 1897 (two consecutive days in December that year), 1899, 1900, 1959, 1973 & 1976.
And thatâs not the end of it for Sydney.
Next Saturday, temps could go as high as 47°C in Western Sydney!! 
The coast would be spared from the worst of it, with the CBD expecting only 34°C that same day.
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I canât think of another time where the forecast has been for 40 in Hobart, I know itâs hit it before but I donât think itâs been forecast before. Several places in the south-east and Derwent Valley are set for high-30âs and 40.
Was quite warm coming through from Hobart back to Devonport yesterday, the air-con in the car broke down halfway between Cambell Town and Perth so we had the last leg in mid-30 temps with a fully loaded car and no air-con. Was good to arrive back in Devonport where a nice sea fog had rolled in and was keeping things back down.
Big Bash is due to be at UTAS Stadium in Launceston tomorrow night but thereâs the predicted thunderstorms for much of the state including Launceston. Most forecasts include the thunderstorms description rather than chance of and on the MetEye map itâs shaded red for likely rather than the usual possible which often happens.
Some have been saying that conditions tomorrow down south could rival those on the day where Dunalley was destroyed a few years ago, I hope everything passes without issue but dry lightning is something that Tasmania hasnât had to worry about in years past but seems to be causing fires each year now.
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While Perth will be the coolest capital of Australia for tomorrow (forecast top of 26 degrees), Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Canberra, Sydney, Darwin and even Brisbane will see temperatures above 30 degrees. Perth will have a cooler way to finish for not just this year, but this decade.
I would have thought that the weather forecast will be strong winds and late rain (medium or heavy) during tomorrowâs night game between Hurricanes and Stars at UTAS Stadium, Launceston.
Falls Festival is in Lorne not Falls Creek, not an easy place to evacuate from in an emergency, would be impossible with the extra crowds for the festival
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So Perth will be ending the decade on the same day as the rest of us?
It will be cooler in Melbourne on New Yearâs Eve. 21 degrees even Adelaide is cooler at 23.
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New December record set for Hobart with Hobart city and Hobart Airport both recording 40.8 degrees this afternoon. Friendly Beaches on the East Coast has smashed their all time record of 40.0 (the day of the Dunalley fires) with 41.9°C at 3:01pm.
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Western Sydney is expected to reach 47°C on Saturday in some parts of the region
Thatâs since been revised down to 44°C as of this afternoon.
On that same day, Canberra is forecasting a top of 42°C, which has the potential for the city to record its highest-ever temperature if it can go past 42.2°C that was recorded in February 1968.
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4000 trapped on beach by fires in Victoria: Fireys order crowd to jump in water:
Fires have turned the skies in Mallacoota blood red. These pictures are absolutely terrifying.
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Meanwhile in Sydney, Penrith has reached a top of 46.3°C this afternoon, breaking the record for the hottest December day there, beating the 44.1°C that was recorded just 2 years ago. Likewise for Richmond, which recorded 44.9°C, beating the 43.7°C that was set in 1994.
Canberra has recorded its hottest December on record, in which it had an average maximum temperature of 31.7°C, beating the previous record of 29.7°C that was set in 1972.
It also had the warmest year on average with a mean maximum temperature of 22.6°C, beating the previous record of 22.0°C that was set just last year. In other words, itâs not much lower than that of Adelaide for this year (23.0°C).
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Scary when you consider that they are at the same latitude (35S), yet Canberra is 600 m ASL. The minimums- and hence average temperature- would still be lower in Canberra, though.
The summers in Canberra now resemble the historical averages for Griffith, something I didnât expect till at least the middle of the century. There will be a few wetter and cooler years of course but I fear this is the new default.
Was anyone in Albury last night? That 31.6C minimum was surely a record by several degrees- brutal.
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I woke up feeling like i had heat stress and drank a cup of water