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Just looking at the Horsham obs for last night.,It was certainly rough at times. Mslp got down to 989 hPa Common gusts in the 60-70km/hr I can report the ground is saturated here , central west. Even signs of rust in the onion weed. Dams and tanks are full and over flowing. Run off flowing into seas...

Forecast t+120 hrs 14th August 2019 Long wave trough with North west infeed moisture for WA Quite good prospects for rain and storms. The surface troughing is supported with vertically stacked 500 and 200hPa troughing. So a strong weather event Precipitation signal quite broad ..Port Hedland to Bunb...

Absolutely crazy here in central west VIC..Dunolly
very strong wind and heavy rain. 9.42pm
can't sleep with this noise

Great post 'greyrigging' thanks

Here is a snap of low level snow near Canberra
Corrin forest ACT
7th_ 8th August 2019

Nice to read your report GORDON and thanks for the pic'
In Dunolly central west we had l guess about 10mm steady rain or maybe more last night.
It has been very cloudy here this week and we have had to use the generator a few hours each day. The solar has struggled this week

Monsoon rains in Mumbai India are still very heavy . A detailed analysis here https://watchers.news/2019/08/05/mumbai-reservoirs-flood-august-2019/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter https://watchers.news/data/thumbs/798_296/2019/08/mumbai-flood-august-5-2019.jpg 'Heavy rains continued into A...

BOM forecast for Perisher .,NSW alps for the next 7 days7th to 12th August 2019 is between 35 and 95cm of snow So a chance for another metre. .... To start There is a precip’ signal over the alps wednesday night 7thAugust. This picture is for 10pm. The rain signal extends northward into eastern NSW...

A tad of a downgrade for sth Australian coast for this incoming trough tomorrow. Then cold pool only peaks at 536 overnight on wednesday (tomorrow)and into early morning.,The precipitation signal is mainly before the cold pool and looks quite robust at around 4pm.Chance of thunderstorms perhaps. Som...

ACC G giving the east gippy' and southern NSW coast an ECL on sunday the 11th August (t+/156hrs)

http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/ ... ndex.shtml

Antartic polar night finishes in 2 months .
Splendid pictures of southern Aurora here.

NEW ZEALAND
4th Aug 2019
Sea level snow being reported

240hr forecast of the 10hPa temps' showing a displaced vortex and a developing warming patch. 2 funnels.,One descending, cold. One ascending , warm. Will this be the start of a 10hPa warming event. from late August early september? source https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f...

Here is a link to some background definition on the AAO, ( Antartic Oscillation ) Also included from this link is some tabulated data of AAO index from 1948 to 2011 http://research.jisao.washington.edu/data/aao/slp/ I was looking for the record lowest AAO. But l have come to realize there are variou...

A very promising snow bearing event on the cards, according to ACC g. Firstly a very strong low centred very close to SW VIC and west Tasmania on wednesday the 7th and Thursday the 8th August. 2019. ACC g has the low between 980hPa on wednesday and 972 on the thursday. It is a moisture laden low for...

Found this great article on polar vortex displacements and polar vortex splits. This should help us with assessing the progress of our SH polar vortex anomalies. Had a quick look at the 70 and 10hpa today and everything looks quite symetrical atm. However still 2 months more of winter spring obs' to...

HI RWM. I read your research in the tropical thread and posted hour findings on my blog. Great work.. : D https://weathercycles.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/townsville-and-brisbane-past-rainfall-correlated-with-sunspot-number/ ________________------------------_______________ A moisture laden, long wav...

Example of low dew points in WA 10.10am obs 3rd August 2019 Broome minus 11.9 deg c Marble bar dew point .. minus 10.8deg c. (Temp'22.7deg but it only feels like 15 deg c) Port Hedland minus 9.1deg c All of Goldfields region in negative dew points http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/observations/waall.shtml?re...

This is one BIG wildfire Images from Russia, where the army has been sent in to help tackle massive wildfires raging in Siberia (all photos here from Krasnoyarsk region). quote 'The wildfires have now spread to about three million hectares (7.4 million acres) - an area roughly the size of Belgium ' ...

Flooding in UK.,Derbyshire dam could breach. 6000 evacuated

Continuing low dew points over the continent this autumn and winter. Including the tropics Example Today 1pm Broome. DEW POINT minus 4.3deg c and surface temp' 31..wind easterly from the desert Drops the feels like temp' down to 24.8deg c link http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/observations/waall.shtml?ref=hd...