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On 27 November 2024, after a nearly a week-long heatwave conditions in Sydney, where the City saw weather conditions more typical of January or February than in November. Sydney Airport warmed to 38.1 °C (100.6 °F) at 12:15pm, which made it the hottest place in the world at that time (a few reasons being due to the foehn effect and UHI effect).
Wallsend was the more developed and as it grew it linked to Plattsburg via Nelson Street. Wallsend was proclaimed a separate municipality in early 1874, but the two areas had re-joined by 1915. The coal mined at Wallsend was of very good quality and the township prospered, creating the commercial hub it is today. [5]
A spectacular tornado with a purple funnel was on the ground in front of the weather bureau. [41] Sandon tornado: 13 November 1976: Victoria: 3: 2 fatalities: Two fatalities occurred when a car with occupants inside was thrown by the tornado. This tornado from the outbreak caused $300,000 in damage. [42] F2/F3 Northam tornado: 21 December 1977 ...
Heavy flooding broke out in the Central Coast and Sydney areas of New South Wales, Australia, beginning in early July 2022. [2] [3] Around 85,000 people were displaced by the flooding or requested to leave their homes by authorities.
Elermore Vale Public School and Wallsend South public school. The Elermore Hotel was the starting and finishing point for the annual Shaft Shuffle Fun Run, organised by the Elermore Vale Lions. [7] [clarification needed] In 2016 the median age of resident was 40, 81.5% were born in Australia and 84.9% only spoke English at home. [8]
Large projects related to the coal industry helped to propel the Newcastle unemployment rate to 20 year lows and allow the Newcastle region to weather the effects of the late 2000s recession better than NSW as a whole. [49] As of 2009, the two largest single employers are the Hunter New England Area Health Service and the University of ...
4 January – ADF personnel arrive in South East Queensland after being deployed to help the region in the aftermath of severe weather over the Christmas/New Year period. [11] In Far North Queensland , there are also calls for ADF assistance to help with the clean-up following severe weather caused by Cyclone Jasper .
Weather ship observations proved to be helpful in wind and wave studies, as they did not avoid weather systems like merchant ships tended to and were considered a valuable resource. [5] The last weather ship was MS Polarfront, known as weather station M ("jilindras") at 66°N, 02°E, run by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.