Following a storm that went through Waurn Ponds, Geelong on Tuesday evening, the Bureau of Meteorology has today confirmed that it was a tornado that hit.
Christ itâs cold in Brisbane this arvo. At 4pm, temp is 15C and feels like 12C according to the BOM. First time Iâve done my shopping track and considered taking my European jacket.
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Enjoy your one day of winter @pelican.
The temperatures across the east are a little bit arse-about at the moment, with Moree registering a colder maximum temperature than both Canberra and Hobart. All due to the nature of this low pressure system which is flinging cold inland air a fair way north, while leaving areas further south in milder oceanic air.
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Yep, days like this make you realise just how poorly equipped this city is for anything below about 20 degrees. Tomorrow will be much the same too.
I actually love these wintery blasts up here, still warm enough during the day and makes you appreciate how generally pleasant it is the rest of the time (well, summer excepted which is awful here). Plus, reminds me of home a bitâŚ
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Oh dear Egg Man, I can hear you pining for a good old fashioned Victorian winter. Grass is always greener eh?
As for me, Iâm definitely not missing Sydneyâs weather. âWinterâ down there is nice, but I always dreaded the first hot day of spring which nearly always comes about mid September these days. Down here itâs very rare to get 30C before late October, and itâs only a one off if it happens. Consistent heat doesnât arrive until around Christmas and backs off from mid February. If you head to the VIC coast or Tassie in early Feb thatâs only about a month of high heat you have to endure.
You need some toughening up 
I think 30 degrees is nice! (as long as its not humid as well).
Christmas to mid March is the most enduring part for me, its usually either 35 degrees or more, OR its humid. Thankfully there are just enough cooler days in between to provide some relief.
30 and dry is fineâŚin summer. September is too early for 30C weather in any shape or form. In Sydney and Newcastle, there is the threat of genuinely hot weather (35+) for at least half the year; down here itâs mainly the three designated summer months. The nights are a heck of a lot cooler as well, due to the much lower humidity.
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Who to believe? 
Seven coldest May day in 40 years
Brisbane Times coldest May day in more than half a decade
Brisbane Times 2nd article coldest May day in 98 years
Nine coldest May day in almost a century
ABC TV coldest May day on record
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14 in Townsville - those poor people wouldnât have known what to do.
Yesterday felt positively Victorian here - lots of cloud, failed to warm up, bit of a breeze from the southwest.
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@NQCQTV2 wil be loving it up there right now!
I wish we had those sorts of negative anomalies down southâŚIâd be well and truly snowbound. But thatâs not the way it works in Australia unfortunately. Southern Australia gets large positive anomalies from the land to its north, but smaller negative anomalies from the ocean to its south. The reverse is true for northern Aus (large negative anomalies from the landmass to the south, smaller positive ones).
Places like the US get both large positive and negative anomalies, because thereâs nothing much to block tropical and polar airmasses in most places. The exception to this is the west coast which is more like Australia: ocean and mountains blocking most polar air.
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And of the 5 headlines regarding Brisbaneâs Saturday weather, this one was correct.
At least according to this
While Brisbane dipped to an unremarkable 11C, the maximum temperature of just 15C made it the coldest May day since 1922.
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It was a lovely weekend!
Yeah, it was âcoolâ by local standards for a few days before the real cold hit on Saturday.
It was 23 and overcast on Friday and everyone at work was complaining that it was âfreezingâ.
Saturday was glorious, we went out on Saturday and there was either two extremes.
People either had: No jumper / long pants (Because they donât own any) and were freezing, or they were dressed up in ski gear.
The problem up here is that the housing is designed to stay cooler and a lot of people donât have any heating.
It was 14 outside on Saturday and 15 inside my house, so I can understand why people may have struggled.
Even this morning, it was 8 outside at my place and 12 inside when I woke up. Iâm assuming thatâs probably not something that happens down south as houses would be well insulated from the cold.
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The cool breezes combined with less traffic pollution due to COVID-19 saw one of the clearest skies in years in Brisbane on the weekend. The view to the Glasshouses in the north was spectacular.
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Here we go⌠Cue in the climate change activists.
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I noticed the report in 9Newsâ late bulletin last night bizarrely omitted mention of global warming as the driver of the more severe weather.
Itâs strange how people can still insist on denying facts, even when the country has been burning right in front of us, and solar & wind are the cheapest form of electricity generation, even with storage (e.g. battery, hydro), so whatâs the problem?
This shouldnât be a political issue; science has forecast this, and itâs happening. Ignoring this problem has just been making it worse.
Have a read; Insurance Australia Group (who trade as CGU, Coles & NRMA Insurance) have warned that not only fires have & will increase in severity but also other expensive weather events like large hail. This is making insurance prohibitively expensive, so more people will lose everything when these disasters happen instead of being able to claim on insurance & rebuild/replace.
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My take is that even if climate change was âalarmistâ and âoverblownâ, what exactly is the harm in trying to move to reduce our carbon emissions, just in case the âalarmistsâ are correct? Itâs all about hedging the bets. Logic would dictate youâd have to be absolutely certain that the scientistsâ climate change predictions are wrong before you completely push back and promote coal again. Even if there was a 10% chance that the predictions were correct, itâd still be a good idea to take preventative measures.
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Surging ahead with the family plan to move to Canberra later in the year. This weekend is a good example of why.
Itâs the middle of June, and weâve had to start using the air conditioning again in Townsville, after two months without it.
Overnight minimum last night of 23°C.
Currently 27°C but with humidity at 90%, the âfeels like temperatureâ is coming up as 31°C, and it certainly does feel like 31.
Today feels like a November day, not a June day!
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Yep, a âlowâ of 23 in winter is a bit much. It was a warm night further down the coast too, I read this morning that Brisbane Airport had its warmest June night on record. Not so warm during the day today though, just wet
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