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There was some wild weather in TAS late yesterday and overnight as a cold front and two troughs crossed the island bringing strong, cold winds, rough seas and snow to fairly low levels. The perennially windy Maatsuyker Island off the southern tip of the main island scored an average windspeed of 68.2km/h over the 24 hours to 09.00 today with a top gust of 135km/h late yesterday morning as a trough ahead of the main front passed through. The summit of Mt Wellington had a top gust of 124km/h while Cape Grim, Cape Bruny and Scotts Peak Dam all saw gusts of 102km/h. The waverider buoy off Cape Sorell on the West Coast had a peak wave of 14.5m late yesterday afternoon, while higher parts of the state had snow during the evening, ranging from a dusting to between 5 and 10cm at Lake St Clair, Cradle Mountain and Lake Leake. While high pressure entrenched over continental Australia is still giving benign weather on the mainland, for TAS at least winter has begun.
In anticipation that winter will, one day, arrive in the Alps, the BoM has added a forecast for Falls Creek to the list of alpine villages for which full 7-day forecasts are given.
Perhaps in preparation for winter, 1,020 Hobartians dropped off their duds for the fifth Dark Mofo Festival winter solstice nude swim in the Derwent on Wednesday with the air temperature a brisk 7.7°. As consolation, the water temperature was a balmy 14°. The rub - or lack of rub - came when they all got out of the water and there weren't enough towels to go around as numbers had far exceeded the expectations of the organisers. [Thomson Reuters Foundation]
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In Antarctica, they're made of sterner stuff. At Australia's Davis Station, the solstice, or Midwinter's Day, was celebrated in traditional polar style with a quick plunge in the briny. Air temperature -27°, wind chill -36, water temperature -1.8, and all documented in this short Antarctic Division video. There were enough towels to go round.
Speaking of the Antarctic, the much-reported crack in the Larsen C iceshelf had a spurt in length last month and now has only 13km to go to reach the sea according to Reuters. The Larsen C is on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula that juts northwards towards South America and the iceberg that will be freed to float in the waters surrounding the continent will be about 5,000 square kilometers in size - twice the area of the ACT - and about 200m thick of which only 20m will jut above the water line. It may be years before it breaks up and will pose a significant threat to shipping while it does. However, two satellites are providing routine monitoring and gathering valuable data for the future as reported by Climate Central in an article that shows that these important satellites are not just for scientific use but provide other very valuable services as well.
Tropical Depression Cindy ploughed into the United States near the Texas/Louisiana border about 18.00 AEST Thursday 22 June as a low-intensity storm with winds averaging 65km/h gusting to 90km/h. Its main features, however have been copious rainfall - up to 300mm in Mississippi with consequent flooding, at least three tornadoes, and a half to one metre storm surge locally up to 1.8m. The depression has been gradually steered to the NNE then NE to be over Tennessee and Kentucky today AEST.
With the system taking its time to arrive, then over two days to traverse a large part of the country, the US media and media agencies have had a field day, so digging through hundreds of online stories has proved impossible. Instead, these two blogs from the trustworthy Dr Jeff Masters are offered as straightforward and well-illustrated accounts of the event - one on Thursday morning US EDT when Cindy had recently made landfall, and a second early Friday afternoon when the depression had moved well inland into Arkansas.
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**S** and **W** precede data flagged by the Bureau as suspicious or wrong Data is as received at 14:01EST, 25/06/2017.
Major centres
Max °
C
+/- norm °
C
Min °
C
+/- norm °
C
Grass Min °
C
Rain to 9am mm
Evaporation to 9am mm
Sunshine hours
Wind Run to 9am km (24-hour average km/h)
Maximum Gust km/h / hour of occurrence
PERTH AIRPORT
18.0
-0.9
11.0
+2.0
7.6
0.0
3.8
--
530 (22.1)
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BUNBURY
18.0
-0.4
6.1
-2.0
--
0.0
--
--
359 (15.0)
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MANDURAH
18.0
-0.6
10.5
-1.1
--
0.0
--
--
383 (16.0)
--
DARWIN AIRPORT
31.0
+0.4
20.2
+0.3
19.4
0.0
5.6
--
231 ( 9.6)
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ALICE SPRINGS AIRPORT
28.0
+8.2
5.0
0.0
--
0.0
--
--
164 ( 6.8)
--
WHYALLA AERO
17.0
-0.3
5.0
-1.1
--
0.6
--
--
297 (12.4)
--
ADELAIDE (KENT TOWN)
17.0
+0.9
5.0
-3.1
--
0.0
--
--
49 ( 2.0)
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MOUNT GAMBIER AERO
12.0
-1.8
4.8
-0.9
--
2.2
--
--
299 (12.5)
--
MOUNT ISA AERO
28.0
+3.2
6.0
-3.9
--
0.0
--
--
152 ( 6.3)
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CAIRNS AERO
26.0
0.0
19.3
+1.5
--
1.2
--
--
479 (20.0)
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TOWNSVILLE AERO
26.0
+0.4
14.3
-0.3
--
0.0
--
--
258 (10.8)
--
MACKAY M.O
24.0
+2.1
15.5
+1.5
--
0.8
--
--
334 (13.9)
--
ROCKHAMPTON AERO
26.0
+2.5
10.1
-0.8
--
0.0
--
--
138 ( 5.8)
--
BUNDABERG AERO
25.0
+2.5
9.2
-2.4
--
0.0
--
--
148 ( 6.2)
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COOLANGATTA
24.0
+3.0
9.2
-2.2
--
0.2
--
--
200 ( 8.3)
--
BRISBANE AERO
23.0
+1.8
9.1
-1.4
5.0
0.0
3.4
--
187 ( 7.8)
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TOOWOOMBA AIRPORT
20.0
+3.1
8.8
+1.3
--
0.0
--
--
262 (10.9)
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GUNNEDAH RESOURCE CENTRE
--
--
6.9
+0.8
2.4
0.0
1.8
--
--
--
PORT MACQUARIE AIRPORT AWS
20.0
+0.6
8.0
-0.1
--
0.0
--
--
151 ( 6.3)
--
WILLIAMTOWN RAAF
19.0
+1.3
9.4
+1.5
--
0.0
--
--
369 (15.4)
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ORANGE AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE
--
--
--
--
--
--
--
--
--
--
DUBBO AIRPORT AWS
19.0
+2.6
0.8
-3.7
--
0.0
--
--
197 ( 8.2)
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SYDNEY AIRPORT AMO
20.0
+2.4
9.4
+0.8
7.0
0.0
1.4
--
368 (15.3)
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RICHMOND RAAF
20.0
+2.1
2.5
-2.4
--
0.0
--
--
126 ( 5.3)
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BELLAMBI AWS
19.0
+1.4
12.3
+1.3
--
0.0
--
--
338 (14.1)
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CANBERRA AIRPORT
14.0
--
0.1
--
--
0.0
--
--
434 (18.1)
--
WAGGA WAGGA AMO
14.0
+0.2
-1.8
-5.5
--
0.2
--
--
134 ( 5.6)
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ALBURY AIRPORT AWS
14.0
-0.2
1.1
-2.6
--
0.2
--
--
42 ( 1.8)
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MILDURA AIRPORT
18.0
+2.0
2.9
-2.3
--
0.0
2.8
--
183 ( 7.6)
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TATURA INST SUSTAINABLE AG
13.0
-1.0
0.6
-3.1
--
0.0
--
--
135 ( 5.6)
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BENDIGO AIRPORT
12.0
-1.3
1.4
-2.1
--
0.0
--
--
114 ( 4.8)
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MELBOURNE AIRPORT
13.0
-0.6
5.7
-0.5
3.1
1.2
1.8
--
499 (20.8)
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BALLARAT AERODROME
9.0
-1.8
4.0
0.0
--
1.4
--
--
411 (17.1)
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LAUNCESTON (TI TREE BEND)
11.0
-2.1
-0.5
-3.4
--
8.6
--
--
271 (11.3)
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HOBART AIRPORT
11.0
-1.9
1.5
-3.1
-3.5
1.0
2.8
--
514 (21.4)
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+/- norm °
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Min °
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Rain to 9am mm
Evaporation to 9am mm
Sunshine hours
Wind Run to 9am km
Maximum Gust km/h / hour of occurrence
Hottest
Highest maximum temperature>
Greatest variation above normal maximum
Highest minimum temperature
Greatest variation above normal minimum
34.0 WYNDHAM AERO N Kimberley WA 34.0 KALUMBURU N Kimberley WA 34.0 FITZROY CROSSING AERO W Kimberley WA 33.0 JABIRU AIRPORT N Rivers NT 33.0 BATCHELOR AIRPORT N Rivers NT 33.0 OENPELLI AIRPORT N Rivers NT 33.0 NOONAMAH AIRSTRIP N Rivers NT 33.0 DOUGLAS RIVER N Rivers NT 33.0 BRADSHAW N Rivers NT 33.0 KUNUNURRA AERO E Kimberley WA 33.0 ARGYLE AERODROME E Kimberley WA 33.0 CURTIN AERO W Kimberley WA
+8.2 : 28.0 ALICE SPRINGS AIRPORT N Plateau NT +7.8 : 27.0 ARLTUNGA N Plateau NT +6.9 : 28.0 BIRDSVILLE AIRPORT Channel Country QLD +6.8 : 27.0 CURTIN SPRINGS N Plateau NT +6.1 : 28.0 JERVOIS N Plateau NT
26.0 BROWSE ISLAND Islands ISL 24.7 COCONUT ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 24.3 CAPE WESSEL Islands ISL 24.0 COCOS ISLAND NTC AWS Islands ISL 24.0 COCOS ISLAND AIRPORT Islands ISL
+6.6 : 13.4 COOBER PEDY AIRPORT NW Pastoral SA +6.4 : 12.7 WARBURTON AIRFIELD Interior WA +6.3 : 18.2 TELFER AERO Interior WA +6.0 : 11.1 TARCOOLA AERO NW Pastoral SA +5.5 : 10.2 NORSEMAN AERO Goldfields WA
Coldest
Lowest maximum temperature
Greatest variation below normal maximum
Lowest minimum temperature
Greatest variation below normal minimum
-2.0 THREDBO AWS Snowy Mtns NSW -2.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC -2.0 MOUNT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC -2.0 KUNANYI (MOUNT WELLINGTON PINNACLE) Southeast TAS -1.0 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC -1.0 MOUNT BAW BAW W Gippsland VIC
-6.0 : 1.0 HARTZ MOUNTAIN (KEOGHS PIMPLE) Southeast TAS -5.8 : 6.0 COMBIENBAR AWS E Gippsland VIC -5.7 : -2.0 KUNANYI (MOUNT WELLINGTON PINNACLE) Southeast TAS -5.3 : -2.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC -5.2 : 5.0 GELANTIPY E Gippsland VIC
-6.0 THREDBO VILLAGE Snowy Mtns NSW -5.5 KUNANYI (MOUNT WELLINGTON PINNACLE) Southeast TAS -3.8 LIAWENEE Central Plateau TAS -3.8 COOMA VISITORS CENTRE Goulburn/Monaro NSW -3.7 THREDBO AWS Snowy Mtns NSW
-5.7 : -1.5 SCOTTSDALE (WEST MINSTONE ROAD) N Coast TAS -5.7 : 0.5 ROSEDALE (TURRETFIELD RESEARCH CENTRE) Adelaide/Lofty SA -5.5 : -1.8 WAGGA WAGGA AMO SW Slopes S NSW -5.5 : 2.5 LARAPUNA (EDDYSTONE POINT) E Coast TAS -5.5 : 1.6 PARAFIELD AIRPORT Adelaide/Lofty SA
Wettest
Sunniest &
dullest
Windiest
Highest gusts
Todays highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am. It
includes the top 5 totals nationally followed by all reported falls of 50mm or more.
Highest
and lowest recordings of hours of sunshine for the 24 hours to midnight.
Highest wind
run totals in kilometres for the 24 hours to 9am (average speed in brackets).
All reported runs >
=25km/h are shown.
Highest wind
gusts in km/h for the 24 hours to midnight followed by the hour in which it occurred.
All stations with gusts >
89km/h are shown.
28.8 SOUTH JOHNSTONE EXP STN N Coast--Herbert QLD 24.4 LAKE ST CLAIR NATIONAL PARK Central Plateau TAS 23.4 SCOTTS PEAK DAM W Coast TAS 23.0 TOPAZ ALERT N Coast--Barron QLD 21.4 QUEENSTOWN (SOUTH QUEENSTOWN) W Coast TAS
Reports not yet available
1637 (68.2) MAATSUYKER ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE Southeast TAS 1388 (57.8) CAPE GRIM BAPS (COMPARISON) N Coast TAS 1358 (56.6) HOGAN ISLAND Islands ISL 1283 (53.5) THREDBO AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 1193 (49.7) KUNANYI (MOUNT WELLINGTON PINNACLE) Southeast TAS 1149 (47.9) LOW ROCKY POINT W Coast TAS 1124 (46.8) CAPE GRIM N Coast TAS 1090 (45.4) CAPE SORELL W Coast TAS 1066 (44.4) CAPE BRUNY (CAPE BRUNY) Southeast TAS 1048 (43.7) WILSONS PROMONTORY LIGHTHOUSE W Gippsland VIC 1026 (42.8) MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 1017 (42.4) FLINDERS ISLAND AIRPORT Flinders Is/Bass St TAS 993 (41.4) LOW HEAD N Coast TAS 978 (40.8) HARTZ MOUNTAIN (KEOGHS PIMPLE) Southeast TAS 948 (39.5) SCOTTS PEAK DAM W Coast TAS 842 (35.1) CAPE LEEUWIN Lower West WA 806 (33.6) WILLIS ISLAND Islands ISL 791 (33.0) KING ISLAND AIRPORT King Island TAS 781 (32.5) SWAN ISLAND E Coast TAS 775 (32.3) CAPE WESSEL Islands ISL 766 (31.9) CAPE OTWAY LIGHTHOUSE W Coast VIC 758 (31.6) MOUNT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 728 (30.3) STRAHAN AERODROME W Coast TAS 724 (30.2) LARAPUNA (EDDYSTONE POINT) E Coast TAS 720 (30.0) LOW ISLES LIGHTHOUSE N Coast--Barron QLD 709 (29.5) CABRAMURRA SMHEA AWS SW Slopes S NSW 700 (29.2) MARIA ISLAND (POINT LESUEUR) E Coast TAS 699 (29.1) MCCLUER ISLAND N Rivers NT 680 (28.3) BARROW ISLAND AIRPORT W Pilbara WA 675 (28.1) DEVONPORT AIRPORT N Coast TAS 672 (28.0) COLAC (MOUNT GELLIBRAND) W Coast VIC 670 (27.9) HAMILTON ISLAND AIRPORT Central Coast E QLD 665 (27.7) LIAWENEE Central Plateau TAS 645 (26.9) ROTTNEST ISLAND Lower West WA 636 (26.5) NORFOLK ISLAND AERO Islands ISL 620 (25.8) MOUNT BOYCE AWS C Tablelands S NSW 609 (25.4) LUNCHEON HILL (FORESTRY) N Coast TAS 603 (25.1) CAPE FLATTERY N Coast--Barron QLD
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Downpours
High AWS wind reports
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less from AWS and synoptic reports. IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to a programming error, downpours shown for WA, NT, SA, QLD and ISLANDS between 9 and 10am local times are wrong and should be ignored.
The error will be corrected as soon as possible.
Storm force gusts (>89km/h) and 10-minute mean gales (>62km/h) reported by AWSs. Wind direction and mean windspeed are shown in brackets.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA Central West ENEABBA AG STATION
11.6mm in 30 min to 09:30 23.2mm/h
11.6mm in 1 hr to 09:30 11.6mm/h
11.6mm in 1 hr to 10:00 11.6mm/h Lower West COOMALBIDGUP AG STATION
10.4mm in 30 min to 09:30 20.8mm/h
10.4mm in 1 hr to 09:30 10.4mm/h
10.4mm in 1 hr to 10:00 10.4mm/h Cent Wheatbelt JERRAMUNGUP AG STATION
10.4mm in 30 min to 09:30 20.8mm/h
10.4mm in 1 hr to 09:30 10.4mm/h
10.4mm in 1 hr to 10:00 10.4mm/h ISLANDS Islands COCOS ISLAND AIRPORT
16.6mm in 26 min to 09:26 38.3mm/h
16.6mm in 1 hr to 09:30 16.6mm/h
16.6mm in 1 hr to 10:00 16.6mm/h CHRISTMAS ISLAND AERO
7.4mm in 20 min to 18:00 22.2mm/h
13.2mm in 1 hr to 18:00 13.2mm/h
25.0mm in 3 hr to 18:00 8.3mm/h
13.0mm in 1 hr to 18:30 13.0mm/h
15.8mm in 1 hr to 19:30 15.8mm/h
11.6mm in 1 hr to 20:00 11.6mm/h
VICTORIA W Gippsland WILSONS PROMONTORY LIGHTHOUSE : 93(250/ 74 ) at 00:44 TASMANIA N Coast CAPE GRIM BAPS (COMPARISON) : 95(220/ 69 ) at 00:00 Southeast MAATSUYKER ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE : 98(300/ 80 ) at 03:04 TASMAN ISLAND : 93(220/ 65 ) at 00:35 W Coast LOW ROCKY POINT : 69(290/ 63 ) at 02:55 ISLANDS Islands HOGAN ISLAND : 89(240/ 70 ) at 00:06
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