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The former town of Aberfeldy averages 32.5 snowy days per annum at 1,060 metres (3,480 ft), [3] making it the snowiest locality in mainland Australia, in addition to having more snowy days than northern hemisphere cities with colder winters like Boston (23.0 days), Chicago (28.2 days) and even approaching those of Minneapolis (38.2 days).
While extreme high temperatures are more common inland than they are near the coast, notable extreme maxima have been observed near the coast; 50.7 °C at Onslow, 50.5 °C at Mardie, 49.9 °C at Nullarbor, South Australia, 49.8 °C at Eucla, South Australia and 49.5 °C at Port Augusta, South Australia. [104]
Though the hottest autumn day ever recorded in Sydney's metropolitan area was on 6 March 1938 when Richmond RAAF hit 41.9 °C (107.4 °F). [52] Winter A foggy winter morning in the Sydney Harbour. Winter in central Sydney tends to be mild where the lows rarely drop below 7 °C (45 °F), mainly due to proximity to the ocean. [18]
The average temperature in summer ranges from 12.5 to 21 °C with drier non-sea breeze days as warm as 27 °C, with around 16 hours of sunshine per day. In winter, temperature ranges from 6 to 13 °C, and only 8 hours of sunshine. Relative humidity averages over 60% for the year in the afternoon. Burnie averages 994 mm of rainfall per year.
The Australian High west of Tasmania over the Indian Ocean. The Australian High tends to follow the seasonal variation in position of the sun; it is strongest and most persistent during the southern hemisphere summer and weakest during winter when it shifts towards the interior of Australia, as the westerly frontal systems becomes more active in the region around the Bight, thereby allowing ...
2023 Australian winter This page was last edited on 11 July 2024, at 09:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
December 30, 2020 – January 3, 2021 – The New Year's North American winter storm kills one person and caused 119,000 power outages. The storm caused $35 million (2021 USD) in damage across the United States and Canada, per Aon. [123] January 1–6 – Cyclone Imogen caused $10 million (2021 USD) in damage across Australia. [124]
9-10 June 2021 - heavy rains (over 270mm in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne) caused significant riverine flooding. Overnight, strong winds from the south east, a very unusual direction for that area, gusting over 100kph, brought down thousands of trees across the eastern suburbs, with the Dandenongs particularly badly hit.