Tuesday, 2 August 2016
Blowy August 2016
The temperature in Townsville is is down to 18 degrees Celsius this morning.
The wind feel cooler than that. It is such a contrast to our week of glorious weather (cool nights and warm, calm, sunny days)!.
At 7.30 am
SW wind is 23 mph
Humidity is 40%
Pressure is 30.00 with an up arrow!
Visibility is 5.8 mi
Friday, 22 July 2016
July weather in 2016
Today (Friday, 22nd July, 2016) it was a glorious day in Townsville. Began at about 20 degrees Celcius (C), and rose to about 27 degrees C. with sunshine!
For a couple of weeks we have had some overcast days, with a little rain. It was nice to get some rain, even though it is not the usual in Townsville to get rain in Winter. We had a rather light-on-rain Wet Season, so the Winter refresher was great!
We had it cool up here, a week or more ago, although surely not as cool as the colder areas of the State. We Townsvillians bring out the winter clothes, and dive under the warmer doonas when the mercury drops to 12 degrees C or lower. The cooler winds are not what we usually have, so we feel them so cool!
While not an official record, the brisk 15.2C
recorded on July 14 was the coldest maximum temperature in the city
since 1979. The temperature rose to 17.3C in the early hours of July 15 –
just 0.9C above the 1979 record.
This week the mercury has headed north, with temperatures around 27C.
Bureau of Meteorology Townsville forecaster Andrew Cearns said conditions were expected to reach 27C or 28C each day until at least Thursday. The average July maximum is 25.1C.
“We have been relatively warm compared to recent weeks and that has largely been due to humid conditions following the recent rain and moist onshore winds,” Mr Cearns said.
“We have only been a few degrees above average during the day but we recorded our warmest minimum temperature on Tuesday.”
On Tuesday, the city record a low of 22.2C – 8.5C above the July average. The previous warmest minimum was 21.7C on July 25, 2010.
But it is not just the temperature going haywire.
The Townsville airport rain gauge has already recorded 53.8mm so far this month — almost four times the July average.
Mr Cearns said rain bands moving in from central Australia, the decay of the drought-bearing El Niño and a return to neutral conditions had contributed to the better-than-average falls.
Several records tumbled in the central region after unseasonal rainfall last week.
Townsville missed out on the drenching but decent rainfall was recorded across most of the region, delaying the fire season.
But Mr Cearns said conditions were already drying out, and the reprieve may only be short-lived. “Our fire season generally peaks around September so we need follow-up rain,” he said.
“The past few years have been very much below average for rainfall but even with neutral conditions, we should do better than we have in recent years, even if it is just more average totals.
Townsville is expecting sunny conditions over the weekend with 17C to 27C forecast for today and 18C to 28C both tomorrow and Monday.
For a couple of weeks we have had some overcast days, with a little rain. It was nice to get some rain, even though it is not the usual in Townsville to get rain in Winter. We had a rather light-on-rain Wet Season, so the Winter refresher was great!
We had it cool up here, a week or more ago, although surely not as cool as the colder areas of the State. We Townsvillians bring out the winter clothes, and dive under the warmer doonas when the mercury drops to 12 degrees C or lower. The cooler winds are not what we usually have, so we feel them so cool!
http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/news/our-wacky-weather/news-story/38f0ac1a11534d3bc8051bd1764ce134
Our wacky weather (Townsville News)
JUST
a week after Townsville shivered through one of its coldest July days
in decades, residents are sunning themselves in temperatures more than
10C warmer.
This week the mercury has headed north, with temperatures around 27C.
Bureau of Meteorology Townsville forecaster Andrew Cearns said conditions were expected to reach 27C or 28C each day until at least Thursday. The average July maximum is 25.1C.
“We have been relatively warm compared to recent weeks and that has largely been due to humid conditions following the recent rain and moist onshore winds,” Mr Cearns said.
“We have only been a few degrees above average during the day but we recorded our warmest minimum temperature on Tuesday.”
On Tuesday, the city record a low of 22.2C – 8.5C above the July average. The previous warmest minimum was 21.7C on July 25, 2010.
But it is not just the temperature going haywire.
The Townsville airport rain gauge has already recorded 53.8mm so far this month — almost four times the July average.
Mr Cearns said rain bands moving in from central Australia, the decay of the drought-bearing El Niño and a return to neutral conditions had contributed to the better-than-average falls.
Several records tumbled in the central region after unseasonal rainfall last week.
Townsville missed out on the drenching but decent rainfall was recorded across most of the region, delaying the fire season.
But Mr Cearns said conditions were already drying out, and the reprieve may only be short-lived. “Our fire season generally peaks around September so we need follow-up rain,” he said.
“The past few years have been very much below average for rainfall but even with neutral conditions, we should do better than we have in recent years, even if it is just more average totals.
“What
we have seen so far is fairly typical of that change from El Niño to
neutral or La Nina ... that break in the drought can often be fairly
abrupt.”
Townsville and most of the state remains
drought-declared, with those declarations unlikely to change until after
the coming wet season.Townsville is expecting sunny conditions over the weekend with 17C to 27C forecast for today and 18C to 28C both tomorrow and Monday.
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