Following a fairly warm winter across much of Antarctica and indeed large swathes of interior Australia, it’s turned brutally cold just when you’d expect temperatures to begin rising as spring approaches. The build-up of deep cold over Antarctica has spilled out over the Southern Ocean lately.
Just how cold has it gotten in Antarctica?
Today minimum on Vostok antarctica station -82.4 °C
Lowest world Tn of the y. 2018
Lowest Tn from september 2012 (-84,2 on 16/09/2012)Source: https://t.co/uwNAk6oOo8 pic.twitter.com/qcCLxZ0IcA
— Zdenek Nejedly (@ZdenekNejedly) August 28, 2018
It's cold in East Antarctica with temperatures in the -100s! ? pic.twitter.com/4DVYLRNEDd
— AntMet Research Ctr (@ANTMET) August 29, 2018
#Concordia, #Antarctica -78.2°C, -99.6°C windchill
Does boiling water throwed in the air freeze before touching the ground? Apparently yes, and the funny thing is the sound that seems like throwing cold water on a red-hot pot https://t.co/pHAVCzwEKz pic by @marcobuttu pic.twitter.com/vzm7ifHTEB— Gaia for GAIA (@Gaia_for_GAIA) August 31, 2018
The late winter cold outbreak reached much of southeast Australia in the closing days of the Southern Hemisphere’s meteorological winter. This may I add was not an ordinary winter cold spell.
With 0.8C, Melbourne’s CBD had it’s coldest night in 21 years and coldest late winter low since 1957 but the outlying Tullamarine International Airport witnessed a 32 year low with -2C.
Sydney’s CBD dipped to 4.6C, it’s coolest night for 21 years but outlying Olympic Park’s 0.8C was the coldest for this late in the season in some 60 years. Sydney’s western suburbs dipped to -2C.
Thredbo hit a frigid -13.2C making it the coldest night here in 24 years but it was perishing in Perisher where the temperature dropped to an overnight low of -14.2C marking Australia’s coldest minimum for 8 years.
Blue skies over @PerisherResort in Australia's Blue Cow sector today after more fresh snow to end August. The resort currently has a 2.1m base, the deepest since 2004 and recently temps dropped to -14.2C, the lowest temp recorded in Australia for 8 years. pic.twitter.com/HVcwG9nVAG
— Snow Forecast.com (@SnowForecast) September 2, 2018
The -10C at Falls Creek is the lowest here in 44 years.
With a -4.2C low at Kempsey, this was their coldest minimum on record. Records date back 53 years.
On Tasmania, Strahan’s low of -2.3C was this town’s coolest in 14 years.
Here are scenes most don’t associate with Australia.
WOW!! Parts of #Australia at higher levels have seen loads of #snow recently!!! This was at #Hotham in Australia where 214cm of snow was recorded! Don’t think this bus was going anywhere fast. Source: @SNOWSEARCH_aus #severeweather #stormhour #snow #extremeweather pic.twitter.com/9bc2Pt4Dhb
— WEATHER/ METEO WORLD (@StormchaserUKEU) August 19, 2018
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