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The cloudiest month in Melbourne is May, with an average of 18 cloudy days, followed by July, June and August, respectively. [5] Melbourne is also prone to isolated convective showers forming when a cold pool crosses the state, especially if there is considerable daytime heating.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Australia is 50.7 °C (123.3 °F), which was recorded on 2 January 1960 at Oodnadatta, South Australia, and 13 January 2022 at Onslow, Western Australia. The lowest temperature ever recorded in Australia is −23.0 °C (−9.4 °F), at Charlotte Pass, New South Wales
While extreme high temperatures are more common inland than they are near the coast, notable extreme maxima have been observed near the coast; 50.7 °C at Onslow, 50.5 °C at Mardie, 49.9 °C at Nullarbor, South Australia, 49.8 °C at Eucla, South Australia and 49.5 °C at Port Augusta, South Australia.
This is the only time zone in the world that uses 30-minute DST transitions. AU: Australia/Melbourne: Victoria Canonical +10:00 +11:00: AEST: AEDT: australasia AU: Australia/North: Link +09:30 +09:30: ACST: backward Link to Australia/Darwin: AU: Australia/NSW: Link +10:00 +11:00: AEST: AEDT: backward Link to Australia/Sydney: AU: Australia ...
Winter is the coldest and darkest season of the year in polar and temperate climates.It occurs after autumn and before spring.The tilt of Earth's axis causes seasons; winter occurs when a hemisphere is oriented away from the Sun.
Snow at sea level in Melbourne last occurred in August 2005, in the Melbourne's southern suburbs near Mornington Peninsula. [53] Though Melbourne central business district has not recorded snow since 1986. [54] In South Australia, there are two known occurrences of snow in Mount Gambier, only 60 metres (200 ft) above sea level, in 1951 and 1932 ...
April 1923 – Melbourne records no rain for the entire month. This would remain as the only rainless month in Melbourne's 170 years of records. [10] 29 November to 1 December 1935 -Torrential rainfall of up to 350 mm causes the Yarra River to become a raging torrent. Extensive damage with 35 dead, 250 injured, and 3,000 homeless. [11] [12] [13 ...
Hardy palms are any of the species of palm that are able to withstand brief periods of colder temperatures and even occasional snowfall.A few palms are native to higher elevations of South Asia where true winter conditions occur, while a few others are native to the warmer parts of the temperate zone in southern Europe, and others are native throughout temperate and subtropical locales in the ...