Australia is collectively sweating through an unusually muggy start to summer.
Australia is collectively sweating through an unusually muggy start to summer; a weather pattern being partially driven by the warmest waters on the planet off our tropical coastline.
The humidity is not only a key ingredient for thunderstorms, but is also behind Sydney's mysterious sea fog on Friday which cloaked the city's coast. A combination of very high instability and an overlying jet stream could even result in long lasting supercell storms over the eastern Murray Basin — the most dangerous type of thunderstorm which are capable of producing destructive winds and giant hail.
While storms are possible in Melbourne, the city lies just outside the zone which could see severe weather due to a stabilising south-west change arriving around lunchtime, however Sydney will remain hot and humid all day, reaching the mid-30s across most suburbs, and could see brief damaging wind gusts and heavy rain.
In total over the next five days almost the entire country will see rain, and in a repeat of the past few weeks, areas of above 50mm are likely in multiple states along with the Northern Territory.While bursts of lightning and thunder are common in November and December, the current frequency and extent of storms is more reminiscent of January when heat and humidity typically peak — our national average rain is 51mm in December but rises sharply to 80mm in January.
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