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On 10–11 February 2017, a prolonged heatwave blasted through NSW and breached multiple weather records, including a lot of Sydney's records for hottest February day. Parramatta and Bankstown in Sydney's west had both recorded 44.5 °C (112.1 °F) on the 10th, breaking their previous records of 41.9 °C (107.4 °F) and 43.3 °C (109.9 °F) on ...
A thunderstorm in Sydney. The climate of Sydney, Australia is humid subtropical (Köppen: Cfa), [1] shifting from mild [2] [3] [4] and cool [5] in winter to warm and occasionally hot [5] in the summer, with no extreme seasonal differences since the weather has some maritime influence (as it is moderated by proximity to the Pacific Ocean). [3]
The temperature of 53.1 °C (127.6 °F) at Cloncurry on 16 January 1889 is not considered official; the figure quoted from Birdsville is the next highest, so that record is considered as being official. The lowest minimum temperature is −10.6 °C (12.9 °F) at Stanthorpe on 23 June 1961 and at The Hermitage on 12 July 1965. [12]
After months of speculation and 17 years in the job, he was replaced as weeknight weather presenter on the Seven News Melbourne bulletin by Giaan Rooney. [5] In July 2014, Brown was appointed weather presenter on Seven Morning News. In January 2016, Brown moved to Sydney and was appointed weather presenter on Seven News Sydney.
A southerly buster is the colloquial name [1] of an abrupt southerly wind change in the southern regions of New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, which approaches from the southeast, mainly on a hot day, bringing in cool, usually severe weather and a dramatic temperature drop, thus ultimately replacing and relieving the prior hot conditions.
The 1947 Sydney hailstorm was a natural disaster which struck Sydney on 1 January 1947. The storm cell developed on the morning of New Year's Day, a public holiday in Australia, over the Blue Mountains, hitting the city and dissipating east of Bondi Beach in the mid-afternoon. At the time, it was the most severe storm to strike the city since ...
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Televised weather forecasts were introduced in 1956. [8] The 1906 act governing the Bureau was repealed and replaced by the Meteorology Act 1955, which brought its functions in line with the expectations of the WMO and allowed for a significant reorganisation of its structure. At this time, the Bureau came under the Department of the Interior.