Sydneysiders hoping for relief from recent humid days are set to be disappointed, with the city smashing monthly humidity levels and reaching dew points equivalent to Darwin and other tropical cities | Laura_R_Chung
Sydneysiders hoping for relief from recent humid days are set to be disappointed, with the city smashing monthly humidity levels and reaching dew points equivalent to Darwin and other tropical cities. The January mean humidity for Sydney in the mornings is 85 per cent, well above the mean for the past 56 years of 71 per cent.
The mean humidity in the afternoons is 73 per cent, eclipsing the past 56-year mean of 62 per cent.Credit:The dew point for Sydney on Tuesday was 20.2 degrees, which Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Jackson Browne said was on par with Darwin. Mr Browne said the La Nina pattern off Australia’s east coast was creating warmer sea surface temperatures and driving more moisture into the atmosphere, which was creating more humidity. “There is a system moving through parts of western NSW at the moment which will have a short lull [in the humidity] on Friday and Saturday, but we will see moisture increase again [early] next week,” he said. However, there is some good news around the corner, as climate models suggest La Nina is near or at its peak, with a return to a possible neutral El Nino–Southern Oscillation status in March. The climate driver known as the Southern Annular Mode index has briefly dipped to negative levels but is likely to return to positive levels during the remainder of January and into February. This could bring wetter weather to eastern parts of Australia, but drier than average conditions for western Tasmania. Weatherzone meteorologist Corine Brown said there had been about half a million lightning strikes in the north-east of the state since midnight on Monday, including between Coonabarabran to the Queensland border and between Port Macquarie and Tenterfield. She said the storms were caused by the remnants of an ex-tropical cyclone combined with broad troughs and a high-pressure system off the east coast.She added the wet weather would continue in the north-east region over coming days, with a line of moisture pushing up from South Australia. “It certainly looks like there could be heavy rains in the north-east – that’s 24 hours of precipitation which could be getting into the 100 millimetres around the New England area,” she said.
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