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Autumn lasts between March and May and experiences changeable weather, where summer weather patterns gradually take on the shape of winter patterns. [ 48 ] The highest recorded maximum temperature in Tasmania was 42.2 °C (108.0 °F) at Scamander on 30 January 2009, during the 2009 south-eastern Australia heat wave .
This weather included storms, rainfall, strong wind, and some, although below average, snow. South Australia received a dumping of rainfall, recording between 50 and 80mm in Adeliade Hills, and subsequently flash flooding. [14] In the early morning of June 9, South Australia the highest daily rainfall totals in over 100 years. [15]
Snow in Australia is very rare at sea level, but is common on the highlands of the southeast, in the states of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and in the Australian Capital Territory. Snow is rare even in the southernmost capitals like Melbourne and Hobart , falling less than once every decade, and in the other capitals it is unknown.
Summer rain over Melbourne, taken from Brighton Winter fog over the Melbourne city centre. Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria and the second most populous city in Australia (most populous in urban area), has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb), with warm summers and cool winters.
Brisbane's wettest day occurred on 21 January 1887, when 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain fell on the city, the highest maximum daily rainfall of Australia's capital cities. The wettest month on record was February 1893, when 1,025.9 millimetres (40.39 in) of rain fell, although in the last 30 years the record monthly rainfall has been a much ...
Australia could be heading for its third-warmest summer on record, with many places likely to experience a warmer and drier period than normal from March to May, weather authorities said on Thursday.
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]
I took my family from a 95-degree Australian summer to experience Chicago's 5-degree winter weather. Everyone warned us December was a bad time to visit, but smaller crowds and festive activities ...