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Extreme fire danger warnings were also issued for the Melbourne metropolitan area. [ 1 ] New South Wales Rural Fire Service Inspector Ben Shepherd noted increasing fire risks despite recent rainfall due to drying vegetation and forecasted thunderstorm activity, expressing particular concern about holiday travel coinciding with high-risk conditions.
The transition to polarimetric (dual-polarised) radars began in 2017 with the upgrade of 4 Meteor 1500 radars located in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Sydney. [7] The network has further been enhanced through the installation of 8 new polarimetric Meteor 735 radars across WA, [8] NSW [9] & Victoria, [10] and two polarimetric WRM200 radars [11] manufactured by Vaisala, one to replace the ...
Tasmania has a cool temperate climate with four distinct seasons. The highest recorded maximum temperature in Tasmania is 42.2 °C (108.0 °F) at Scamander on 30 January 2009, during the 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave. Tasmania's lowest recorded minimum temperature is −14.2 °C (6.4 °F) on 7 August 2020, at Central Plateau. [1]
Get the Somerset, TAS local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Get the Launceston, TAS local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
The Bureau of Meteorology is the main provider of weather forecasts, warnings and observations to the Australian public. The Bureau's head office is in Melbourne Docklands , which includes the Bureau's Research Centre, the Bureau National Operations Centre, the National Climate Centre, the Victorian Regional Forecasting Centre as well as the ...
A weather warning generally refers to an alert issued by a meteorological agency to warn citizens of approaching dangerous weather.A weather watch, on the other hand, typically refers to an alert issued to indicate that conditions are favorable for the development of dangerous weather patterns, although the dangerous weather conditions themselves are not currently present.
The La Nina weather cycles is also to blame for excess rainfall in Eastern Australia. [14] A positive Southern Annular Mode and negative Indian Ocean Dipole also favoured wet conditions. [7] A band of clouds formed at the beginning of the week, leading to downpours on Thursday the 13th October and Friday the 14th. [15]