What about some stats on today's cold? You would do the same if it was to do with "heat" or above "average" temperatures hahahahillybilly wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2019 4:21 pm Nice cold one here today with a max of 6.3C. Been in and out of fog.
Going to be a cold one tonight
Yeah, nah. Too busy renovating a friends house to watch this one closely. Spent the weekend tiling a bathroom floor.What about some stats on today's cold? You would do the same if it was to do with "heat" or above "average" temperatures hahaha
BoM just released their extreme maps from yesterday. Around Melbourne and to the SE of the metro was on the top shelf for the daily mean temp extremes over 109 years for June. So it was definitely a cold one down there according to the climatology.
I post here as an enthusiastic weather watcher (weather tragic), but in a professional capacity "produce" those maps. The darker blue around Melbourne's east shows a "1 in 3" year type event (so only happens on about 1% of days in June).BoM just released their extreme maps from yesterday. Around Melbourne and to the SE of the metro made was on the top shelf for the daily mean temp extremes over 109 years for June. So it was definitely a cold one down there according to the climatology.
Nearly all Melbourne's 'coldest' days happen on foggy days.Of course, Melbourne's coldest day in the instrumental record was a 4.4C on 04 Jul 1901 which occurred on a foggy day (there was a day back in the 1840s when it snowed all day with heavy accumulations which may well have been colder but there are no observations).
Spot on. I had a closer look at Moorabbin earlier and it only had a max under 10c for June in 8 of 48 years of its June history. Obviously was a cold one in Melbourne'a SE according to climatology. Fairly stock standard up herehillybilly wrote: ↑Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:43 pmI post here as an enthusiastic weather watcher (weather tragic), but in a professional capacity "produce" those maps. The darker blue around Melbourne's east shows a "1 in 3" year type event (so only happens on about 1% of days in June).BoM just released their extreme maps from yesterday. Around Melbourne and to the SE of the metro made was on the top shelf for the daily mean temp extremes over 109 years for June. So it was definitely a cold one down there according to the climatology.
I'm struggling to remember a similar day recently with fog that lasted all day in the eastern burbs. I vaguely recall something similar last winter, perhaps it was the year before (?) but not quite as cold. We've got a pretty narrow window for that sort of weather - basically late May to early July and need a wet lead-up followed by a big high with chilly uppers. Outside of this window the sun tends to have too much kick and almost always burns fog off. When you're at a higher latitude that window becomes much wider. I've seen days like yesterday in the UK right up to the Equinox
Of course, Melbourne's coldest day in the instrumental record was a 4.4C on 04 Jul 1901 which occurred on a foggy day (there was a day back in the 1840s when it snowed all day with heavy accumulations which may well have been colder but there are no observations).
At Monash Uni the max was 7C, which I'd put around a once every few years (perhaps 5).