Australia is bracing for a wetter than average summer season, with large parts of the eastern, western, and northern regions expecting increased rainfall. This shift contrasts with the generally sunny and dry conditions predicted for southern areas like Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, and Perth.
The bureau’s long-range weather forecast anticipates a wetter than average season for large parts of eastern, western and northern Australia.The bureau’s long-range weather forecast anticipates a wetter than average season for large parts of eastern, western and northern Australia.
Bureau of Meteorology says showers and storms a regular feature of Australian summer, but warm and dry periods still to comeIn fact, senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said showers and storm activity were a regular feature of the Australian summer, especially for northern Australia, as well as south-east Queensland and eastern, for example, does suggest a chance of showers or even a possible storm pretty much every day. That’s thanks to an inland trough, which is holding moisture over the area and not really going anywhere.” The bureau’s long-range forecast anticipates a wetter than average season for large parts of eastern, western and northern Australia, with an increased chance of unusually high rainfall.But as weather systems moved through over days and weeks, Bradbury expected there would still be periods of warm and dry conditions to come, “like what we had last weekend in Sydney,” she said. In contrast, the forecast for areas farther south including Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth was generally sunny and dry, she said. There was a chance of patchy rain “or a couple of rumbles of thunder” in Melbourne and Hobart over the weekend. Summer was associated with our most severe weather, Bradbury said. “That does include things like heatwaves and bushfires – that dry, hot weather – but it also includes wet weather, we see the most flooding during summer, we see the most severe storms as well.”, and usually experienced more rain from January to June than in the second half of the year. Brisbane’s wettest month on average was yet to come – in February – although January and December also have high average rainfall totals.University of Melbourne climate scientist, associate professor Andrew King, said Australia was a big continent and the weather systems that brought rain across southern cities differed from places on the east coast.“In the south, a lot of our rainfall comes from fronts, like cold fronts, crossing over the southern part of the continent. Those typically retreat a bit further south in summer,” he said. “Places like Sydney and Brisbane get more of their rain from storms or from showers that move in from the east, from the ocean. In summer, those tend to have a bit more ‘oomph’ to them, and produce a bit heavier rainfall.” The effect of global heating on rainfall was “a more complicated picture” than temperature, King said. Some areas, such as the south-west, were getting drier, while other areas became wetter, and there was generally more variability, he said.
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