Posted on 06/22/2024 5:16:07 AM PDT by george76
Another polar air mass is forecast to hit parts of south-east Australia in the coming week..
Parts of south-east Australia have recorded their coldest start to winter in decades and another polar air mass will arrive during the coming week, promising to bring strong winds, showers, small hail and alpine snow.
In the meantime, a cold and showery weekend is already underway across southern Western Australia and the New South Wales coast, while frost has returned to the south-east inland after an icy week that brought subzero temperatures as far north as central Queensland.
Adding to the wintry systems, a major low-pressure system should soak WA from Wednesday onwards
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An icy week brought sub-zero temperatures as far north as central Queensland..
Showers in Sydney and Perth, frosty nights for Canberra, Melbourne Yet another cold and showery weekend is developing along the NSW coast as cold southerly winds drive in showers off the Tasman Sea.
For Sydney, the soaking makes six wet weekends out of the past eight, and the city now only needs another 44 millimetres to surpass its annual average rainfall for an entire year.
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Showers will also impact Perth and much of western WA on Saturday, as a cold front arrives from the Southern Ocean
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Snow dump possible this week for the Alps..
The freezing weather during the past fortnight has not translated to heavy snow across the Alps due to a lack of precipitation.
But a welcome boost to the snow depth should arrive this week ahead of the school holidays.
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The cold front currently bringing rain to Perth will reach South Australia on Monday, then south-east states on Tuesday, bringing a burst of strong winds, showers, and cold temperatures.
The polar air associated with the system will also generate a few thunderstorms and pockets of small hail, while bringing a fresh dump of alpine snow.
Showers and alpine snowfalls should then linger on and south of the ranges through Wednesday.
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While the south-east remains under winter's grip, WA can expect a rare northward-drifting low-pressure system that will drop Perth's air pressure to abnormally depressed levels.
What's unusual about the system is winter lows normally remain well to the south, with only their associated front extending north to WA to deliver rain.
However, the centre of this week's low could drift as far north as Perth and its attached front may even penetrate into the tropics.
Perth's air pressure could approach its lowest value of the past 50 years of 990 hectopascal (hPa).
The result of the deep and large system will be strong winds and widespread rain across WA for about 72 hours, starting from about Wednesday, before shifting to south-east states towards next weekend.
“The freezing weather during the past fortnight has not translated to heavy snow across the Alps due to a lack of precipitation.”
In other news, water is wet because it is wet.
You want your planet to be in equilibrium.
When your planet is in equilibrium, some locations may see “unusual heat waves” while other locations may see “remarkable cold”.
This is good. It is to be expected.
But but but, what about the “climate change” emergency where we’re all gonna fry due to “global WARMING”????
I hate it when global warming makes it snow. 😆😊
Uh, you do realize that it's the start of winter south of the equator, don't you? So, if anything, the climate-mongers will use this bout of alleged "extreme weather" to further push their agenda.
Sheesh.
It’s unusual weather so it must be Global Warming (we’re all gonna die).
Climate is just Weather
How did this polar vortex travel all the way to Australia and miss Texas? Oh wait, that other pole.
Polar air mass, polar outbreak , who writes this crap ,LOL
Yeah, but is it the coldest “on record”? Cause if it aint “ on record” it doesn’t count.
So does all this coldness do anything to the “global warming “ numbers? Makes them uptrend I’ll bet.
Indeed. The average temperature of the earth isn’t changing. There goes the theory that the earth is ‘warming’.
Coldest years in decades on the West Coast too, but NASA insists it is the warmest. Are they lying?
Haven’t you heard, they had to change the name because it wasn’t happening. Climate change sounds scarier to 15 yr old girls.
:-)
Polar outbreak! All units be on the lookout!
Is Al Gore visiting Australia?
And if you sum up those numbers with the northern hemisphere’s “heat wave” (we used to call it summer before the weather channel) and divide by 2 you get...average temps for the planet...
March, April, May, and now June, have all had below average high temps for the month.
Our highest temp in 2024 has been 86 degrees, and that was recorded 100 feet from a concrete runway at SeaTac airport.
Curiously, for the last six months, there has been a powerful current of very warm Pacific Ocean water that begins off northeast Japan and flows east, straight at Washington state.
A couple hundred miles west of the Washington coast line, that high heat current runs into chilly ocean water and completely disappears.
The very warm water coming east from Japan is unlike anything I have seen before on the global ocean temp map.
Japan is completely surrounded by unusually warm water - the Yellow Sea, the Sea of Japan, and the Sea of Okhotsk, which borders Sakhalin Island.
Off the northeast coast of Japan, there are several thousand square miles of super heated surface water, 5 degrees F above normal.
The only thing I can think of that would cause those super high temps is undersea volcanic activity.
But, even though I read climate data every day, I have not seen anyone explain the hot ocean water off Japan, or the four months of cool temps in Seattle.
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