Discussion: Sydney's Weather

[Grant]

Yet another government office that has to now make a profit.

[ATO2]

Exactly. Information needs to be out there, accessible and generally free!

[rainfan]

I'm afraid BOM (Oz) is starting to charge quite some hefty fees for some data not available on the site. Previously I could get the monthly bulletin (Sydney) for 80 cents per page. Only recently have they tried to charge me $30 for just 3 pages of data, I questioned why such a jump in fees. The response was it was taking up staff's time to which I replied that 3 minutes of photocopying data does not equate to $30. Needless to say we reached an impasse at that point so I "spoke" to the supervisor and he let me have the data for $2.40. Got to put your foot down and get your point across when necessary! Also if I ask a question (when was the coldest day etc), they try to charge $17 or $30 - I certainly object to this, in the end I get the data free

[rainfan]

Thursday afternoon onwards had light showers increasing to moderate/heavy & more frequent lasting into early Friday morning. Cold and very windy. 15oC/16oC in the city.

Yesterday (Friday) was mostly cloudy with very light morning rain becoming dry in the afternoon with some sun towards dusk. Cold and quite windy especially on the coast. 14oC/17oC in the city.

Rain to 9am yesterday:
City: 12mm
Airport: 8mm
Rose Bay: 17mm
Heaviest fall: 32mm at Belrose (N)

MTD Rain:
City: 94mm
Airport: 82mm
Rose Bay: 105mm

Today: currently mostly sunny with some cloud about (1st significant sunny day in 6 days) and 12oC with moderate to fresh cold SW winds.

[ATO2]

Damn! That is gross charging like that. At least I can obtain the Mars data for free! Yeh- go off world for free information!

[ATO2]

Originally Posted by rainfan

MTD Rain:
City: 94mm
Airport: 82mm
Rose Bay: 105mm

If your rainfall carries on, and your water supply ends up overflowing you can become exporters of water!
It is becoming a very valuable commodity!

[TokWW]

Originally Posted by rainfan

Also if I ask a question (when was the coldest day etc), they try to charge $17 or $30 - I certainly object to this, in the end I get the data free

Might have to ask RWood to se what he knows!

[rainfan]

Originally Posted by ATO2

If your rainfall carries on, and your water supply ends up overflowing you can become exporters of water!
It is becoming a very valuable commodity!

Lets hope so. I somewhat doubt that our "main" dams will "overflow", hope I am proved wrong. Looks like some more good rains over next 2 weeks but not so good after that judging by current models.

[rainfan]

Mostly sunny with some cloudy periods especially from mid AM to mid PM. 1st significant "sunny" day for this month. Cold and dry with fresh to gusty S-SW winds. No rain today.

City: 11/18
Airport: 11/16
Highest max: 19 at Penrith (W)
Lowest max: 16 at Airport and Terrey Hills (N)
Lowest min: 8 at Campbelltown (SW)

[rainfan]

Weather since start of yesterday to now has been very cloudy, dark, cold and damp with drizzle, light/moderate showers and light to moderate S-NE winds.

Certainly a very cloudy start to June. To end yesterday only 11.5 hours of sun has been recorded with 6 days having no sun. Saturday alone had 8.8 hrs.

City: 13/16
Airport: 13/18
Highest max: 18 at Airport
Lowest max: 16 at Badgerys Creek, City, Terrey Hills and Richmond
Lowest min: 10 at Richmond

Minimum temps MTD have been well above average due to the frequent cloud. Daytime temps a bit cooler than usual.

Rain to 9am:
Ob Hill: 3.6mm
Airport: 0.8mm
Rose Bay: 3mm

Since 9am:
Ob Hill: 1.6mm
Airport: 1.2mm
Rose Bay: 2.4mm

Quite a wet week expected with some sun tomorrow/Wednesday, rain clearing for Thursday then showers on Friday to next Monday as we come under a moist S-SE airflow. How I do like those .

JUNE 1964: Rain totalled 407.5mm for the month. All of this fell from the 6th to 13th during a very wet and moist S-SE airflow. To 9am on the 12th 101.9mm fell. Southerly gales were recorded on 3 days of this period with the highest gust of S 93km/hr on the 12th and SE 87km/hr on the 10th. Local flooding occurred with widespread damage from the gales. No sun was recorded from the 7th to 12th.