Melbourne’s pressure reading reaches 1,040.8hPa on Thursday, just below all-time high of 1,041.2hPa
The frigid weather gripping parts of south-eastern Australia will linger into next week as a giant high pressure system dominates the region and nudges national records., making it the coldest couple of days for the Victorian capital in two years, according to Yoska Hernández, a Weatherzone meteorologist.region dropped below 0C on Thursday morning. Viewbank near Heidelberg was at -1.6C just after 8am. Coldstream matched its name with a -1.5C reading just after midnight.
Increased cloud cover should stop the mercury sliding back to zero in the Victorian capital for the next couple of days. The chill is expected to return for Sunday morning, with the Bureau of Meteorology predicting 1C for Melbourne’s city centre. Sheffield, TAS is reporting a mean sea level pressure of 1044.4 hPa at present which, if it checks out, is the highest on record in Australia.If confirmed, that reading would set a record for mean sea level pressure, beating the 1,044.3hPa level recorded at Launceston on 7 June 1967.Hernández said the forecasts indicated the high pressure system was in the 1,042Pa to 1,043hPa levels over Tasmania. The pressure could reach “around 1,045hPa” on Saturday morning, she said.
Along with the cool conditions, the high pressure has brought low wind levels for many regions, cutting electricity generation for that source and triggering more burning of gas for power.
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