Weather Watch

[bresker]

Surely you should be praying for rain given the drought?

I've been living in Ireland for the last two years but I don't miss the Melbourne summer, even though ours have been washouts. I much prefer what passes for spring and autumn. I associate summer with lack of sleep, excessive aircon, bushfire warnings, driftnig smoke and it being too hot to enjoy beer (hey I'm Irish, we like warmish beer in front of a pub fire)

When I first came back here after eight years away I used to love watching the clouds and rain sweep in off the hills.

 

[Carl Hooper]

Another week of wet and windy weather in the land of the west.

Isn't it meant to be Spring? Looks like we need to change the seasons by a month because it looks like its going to be a looooooooooong summer.

 

[Jafa]

Pissed down all day here yesterday in Kalgoorlie. Freezing last night. Lovely today.

Not unusual here in WA.

 

[Meow]

Yep, quite a bit of thunder and lightning around Geelong atm.

I live fairly close to Geelong and I only heard about two rumbles of thunder last night and didn't see any lightning. It just p*ssed rain, that's all.
By the way, we had some light showers this morning. Right now, it's Overcast outside.
Typical Geelong spring weather I guess.

 

[craigy]

in Broken Hill at 3pm today.. the town went pitch black and we have been having 100km/h winds all day. Fun times

 

[grimlock]

It's fine and ORANGE in Sydney today.

 

[AG]

It's fine and ORANGE in Sydney today.

Sure is.

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Brisabane's about to get a big orange blanket when the sw/w change comes in

 

[Ron]

in Broken Hill at 3pm today.. the town went pitch black and we have been having 100km/h winds all day. Fun times

Yeah used to get some ripper dust storms when i used to live there, but apparently this one was amazing. Shame i missed it.

A friend of mine took this video of it.

[YOUTUBE]BrlD22HwPvI[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Adrian Shelton]

FARRRRRKKKKK!!!!!! And its getting oranger up here too

 

[BobbyMorri]

Last night, We (Hobart) nearly had more rain than the whole of September last year(25.8mm last night), and if we include todays rain, we got 30mm in 24 hours.

We have had only 13 completely Rain-free days since the beginning of August. Though Perth is beating us. Only one day without rain for the whole of September

 

[Chief]

MMMmmmm smell those dust particles...

Pity I washed my freakin car yesterday...

 

[Toshowyouwhy]

Holy crap! We're dusty as hell here in Brissy but nowhere near that level yet. Would be cool to see though!!

 

[kira]

look at that blanket of orange and red dust

it looks like another Tourism Australia ad..... come to Australia, we have dirt

 

[J_Moore]

I was on the harbour bridge at dawn coming back from the night shift. Couldn't see the city, couldn't see the water, couldn't see either end of the bridge. Was like floating in some crazy red void.

 

[Jeffers]

Outside my house at 6:10am. There's suppose to be the Parramatta River and Gladesville Bridge to the left somewhere.

 

[Deledinho]

Last Night we recorded 30(c) which is the warmest spring night on record for Melbourne since history began recording temperatures.

By the way, I am not one of those people that says "It is too hot " in summer and "It is too cold" in winter-that is jumping on the problem bandwagon-. For me I chose "It too hot" and I am sticking with it.

I'd like and want the temperatures to be way bellow average all the time with way above average rainfall. Our state desperatley needs it. They are predicting above average temps, with bellow average rainfall, a tinder dry state- a perfect combination for the bushfire that we have been experiencing in recent summers-. Great seaside conditions to go swimming but you have to feel for the people that live in the bush at those times.

I'm with this guy.

 

[YPCrowfreak69]

power went out the other day on the yorke peninsula (again) this time because of the thunderstorm and 14mm of rain.

 

[Selective Retention]

That's pretty cool. I remember a few years back when I was in Melbourne during school holidays and they had those big fires on King Island, the smog in the city had an orange illumination to it - nothing like that though.

 

[Adrian Shelton]

I can remember the Bright fires doin that a few yrs back when i was in melbourne, i thought id never see something like that again. Wish i was right

 

[Adrian Shelton]

And tomorrow its comin back here!!! Go away dust

 

[sblack]

We're getting a bit of Orangeness again. Not nearly the speed it came through the other day, but orange nonetheless.

 

[Kram]

Bloody freezing here in WA for the last day in September.

 

[Registered User]

**Bump*
Crikey! Snow in Jan in Vic? Yikes!

 

[Gough]

Can't be doing with summer, altogether too hot and cheerful. I'm a big fan of the existential glumness of winter.