*** DAY 8 OF SNOWMAGGEDON *** #Melbourne #Adelaide #Hobart #Canberra #Sydney #NSW #VIC #SA #TAS #ACT #Storms #VicStorms #VicWeather #SAStorms #SAWeather #TASStorms #TASWeather #Tassie #NSWStorms #NSWWeather Gusty Winds continued over South-East Australia, as a Low Pressure Trough moved through Victoria mainly, trailing behind the Cold Front. This Trough, like the one mid week after Tuesday, brought with it Winds up to 110km/h, Snow and Rain. Damage was minimal, or less than what has been observed at other times during the last 8 days. The Front itself also moved through Central New South Wales, Sydney, and Northern New South Wales, bringing Gusts up to 100km/h in Sydney. While in Northern New South Wales, some convection made between clashing Warm and Cold Air lead to a Squall Line that brought Damaging Winds and Large Hail to mainly around Tamworth. In the Alps, Wind Chill was a huge factor again, with it feeling up to 8ºc Colder than what it already was. Temperatures of around -3.5ºc at Thredbo, felt more like -12ºc. While at times in Canberra, 6ºc was feeling closer to 0ºc. Speaking of Canberra, it may have reached 11ºc yesterday, but that was at 10:30am. By 11:30am it had dropped to just 6ºc, after that point it was fluctuating between 5 and 6ºc for the rest of the day. Another big drop includes Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, West of Sydney where it dropped from 9.2ºc at 2pm to 1.5ºc at 4pm, and then shortly before Sundown, it started to snow. Here at the Big Gusts (>80km/h): - Thredbo Top Station, NSW 111km/h - Hogan Island, VIC 109km/h - Mount Wellington, TAS 109km/h - Neptune Island, SA 106km/h - Wilsons Promontory, VIC 106km/h - Fort Denison, NSW 96km/h - Kurnell, NSW 96km/h - Outer Harbor, SA 95km/h - Sydney Airport, NSW 95km/h - Mount Hotham AWS, VIC 93km/h - Warburto Point, SA 93km/h - Perisher Valley, NSW 91km/h - Sydney Harbour, NSW 91km/h - Tunnack, TAS 91km/h - Cape Nelson, VIC 89km/h - Falls Creek, VIC 89km/h - Mount William, VIC 89km/h - Richmond, NSW 89km/h - Bellambi, NSW 87km/h - Cape Borda, SA 87km/h - Cape Jaffa, SA 87km/h - Kadina, SA 87km/h - Maria Island, TAS 87km/h - Albion Park, NSW 85km/h - Cape Willoughby, SA 85km/h - Mount Buller, VIC 85km/h - Mount Hotham Airport, VIC 85km - Nowra, NSW 85km/h - South Channel Island, VIC 85km/h - Thevenard, SA 85km/h - Mount Crawford, SA 83km/h - Stenhouse Bay, SA 83km/h - Badgerys Creek, NSW 82km/h - Minlanton Airport, SA 82km/h - North Head, NSW 82km/h - Bankstown, NSW 80km/h - Cape Grim, TAS 80km/h - Cape Sorell, TAS 80km/h - Goulburn Airport, NSW 80km/h - Horsley Park, NSW 80km/h - Low Rocky Point, TAS 80km/h - Mount Gellibrand, VIC 80km/h - Newcastle Nobbys, NSW 80km/h - Scotts Peak, TAS 80km/h Gusty Winds are still expected throughout today across the Southern States as this Low Pressure Trough lingers. Snowfall up of up to 20cm is expected to fall across the Alps, with Snow falling as low as 1000m. The majority of Snow is expected to fall over Thredbo and Perisher though. The main focus of today though, is the bitterly Cold Temperatures stretching across much of Southern Australia. Melbourne is 13ºc, Adelaide 14ªc, Canberra 8ºc and Hobart 10ºc. While the Alps are expecting Maximums below 0ºc Wind Gusts made official by BoM. Image 1-3: Snowcams for Mount Hotham, Thredbo and Perisher courtesy of Weatherzone.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 03:14:00 +0000