Hahaha! Just heard on the news that the sound was caused by a meteorite burning up as it entered the atmosphere. No wonder it was so widely heard.
spent 10 years in Hobart and many many times would drive Norf and see Ben Lomand covered in snow but I never went out of my way to check it out
Just got home from another walk up to the Liffey falls, a few brief showers while walking then the heavens opened with hail about 1 minute after I got back in the car. Some wicked looking cloud formations about as I drove back to Deloraine. Fire back going at home now.
Wish we could get some of that up here. heading for a top of 23 tomorrow (woo hoo) then back to 16 all week . where is spring I ask....
Headed down to SOuthport and beyond today. Hoping to do some short treks further SOuth again but I observe has been showers /raining all night in Huon Valley. sounds so good on the metal roof , but not so good for us tourist types.
I observe pissing down and getting blawsted here at Nth Hobart right now. The system has arrived ! Flight Sth now bounced further till Saturday morning at the earliest.
Yes its pretty ordinary up north too, wind, rain and very dark skies. I thought winter was supposed to be over......
Snow as low as 500m tomorrow IMO. Not great for Hobart as it remains quite dry in the lee of Kunanyi. Plenty more over the next week too (Wed/Fri and into the weekend).
Today was a very hot day in Tasmania. Hobart got to 40.8C. The hottest place in the state appears to have been Friendly Beaches with 41.9C.
Only made it to the mid twenties up here, Bass strait has a great cooling effect in a north westerly.
Historically in 1896 and 1897 there were a only a very few random obese citizens back then. Today there’s a trend of obesity throughout the general population with associated health and economic consequences.
I'm not surprised. There was a bit of hail about. Thankfully I managed to find a cosy little pub selling cheeky brews by the beach at Kingston and settled in with a nice book. A fine way to spend the afternoon.
Was cool and breezy in Ulverstone this morning. So much so that our Pilates in the park class retreated to the studio.
I had two hours to fill in while my daughter earned a living. Figured I'd spend some of her inheritance and indulged myself.
Mid Feb report for Launceston. Avge Max so far: 25.4 long term avge 24.6. Rainfall this Feb 9.8 mm long term avge 31.2 mm
EC & GFS not impartial to a little cold snap next week. Snow to higher elevations, highly possible, as it stands. GFS LWT says strong Neg AAO singal to boot with a SW'ly polar feed for Tas. Also coinciding with a humble RWT influence:
It does look half decent, even though GFS has been periodically considering snowfall in Tassie every few runs or so for the last month. What interests me is that the AAO hasn’t found a consistent state as of yet this year. You can call it a neutral state if you want. But it hasn’t found any real mojo since the deep -AAO periods in Nov and Dec. It’s weird that we had very strong negatives, and now the NH is feeling the global climatic base state and the AO is in record positive territory. Perhaps something to consider now that winter is starting to approach. The big question is what is it’s next move. Anyways it looks pretty widespread on EC, particularly for this time of year: Certainly gives it more credibility.
AAO has less tendency to variability and impact in summer months for us as we're typically dominated by MJO & tropical circulations. That said, Tas has faired 'ok' climatically in the last quarter. Feat or famine scenarios in regards to rainfall anoms.
February has probably changed things up quite a bit. Change in climatic influences, so we probably won't see the same effect as we saw last spring with the IOD and the SSW.
EC, CMC and GFS all look like they are on the same page, just some differences with the details. But of course it’s primarily about the big picture at this point. CMC peaking a smidge more than EC, and GFS peaking a bit earlier than both of them.
Big feature there is that SO block pattern at 60S (SW of WA), correlates nicely with the RRWT chart posted a few days ago.
Some stacked temps signaled for Wednesday midday, for Tas. Snow down to 1000m at times for SW National Park IMO. With snowfalls above 1200m right through until Wednesday evening. ~10cm above 1200m is not out the question IMO. Strong polar deviation over Tas (and a very anomalous trough in Eastern IO, off WA coast):
Some depth in the DGZ tomorrow for Southern Coast of Tas. It's a shame it dries out a bit. Good chance of anomalous snow down to 800/900m at times, late arvo tomorrow IMO.
Cradle Mountain region looks like it’s set to get 5-10cm as well: In amongst some rainfall as well, with the best snowfall in the morning. The temperatures are likely to be better for Southern Tasmania throughout the day.
