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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 ...
April 1923 – Melbourne records no rain for the entire month. This would remain as the only rainless month in Melbourne's 170 years of records. [10] 29 November to 1 December 1935 -Torrential rainfall of up to 350 mm causes the Yarra River to become a raging torrent. Extensive damage with 35 dead, 250 injured, and 3,000 homeless. [11] [12] [13 ...
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 ), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] bordering on a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen ...
The floods, which followed heavy rain across southeastern Australia in early September 2010, caused the inundation of about 250 homes, hundreds of evacuations and millions of dollars of damage. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Weather warnings were initially issued for Victoria on Thursday 2 September and rain began to fall on the Friday, continuing through the ...
From the time of the early Church, the practice of seven fixed prayer times has been taught, which traces itself to the Prophet David in Psalm 119:164. [12] In Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus instructed Christians to pray seven times a day, "on rising, at the lighting of the evening lamp, at bedtime, at midnight" and "the third, sixth and ninth hours of the day, being hours associated with ...
Rain gauges were gradually installed at other major centres across the continent, with the present gauges in Melbourne and Sydney dating from 1858 and 1859, respectively. In eastern Australia, where the continent's first large-scale agriculture began, a large number of rain gauges were installed during the 1860s and by 1875 a comprehensive ...
At this time, the Bureau came under the Department of the Interior. In 1957, partly as a response to the 1955 Hunter Valley floods, the Bureau added a hydrometeorological service. [9] In 1964, the federal government agreed to establish one of the three World Meteorological Centres in Melbourne, as part of the WMO's World Weather Watch scheme. [10]
The 2005 Melbourne thunderstorm was a severe weather event that occurred between 2 February and 3 February 2005, [1] which produced 120 millimetres (4.7 in) of rain in Melbourne, the highest total since records began. Every suburb in Melbourne, as well as parts of eastern Victoria and the Geelong/Bellarine Peninsula, were affected by the storm. [2]