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Subscriber only A BOM spokesperson acknowledged that communities wanted local information but severe weather such as tropical cyclones were best tracked by specialist teams of meteorologists and hydrologists located at their capital city offices. The Bureau welcomes the opportunity to work with the Mayor of the City of Townsville to understand how it can further support the Townsville Local Disaster Management Group and the Council to support improved decision making, the spokesperson said. The Bureau s records show no unfulfilled requests for information from Townsville stakeholders or media. Throughout TC Kimi, the Bureau briefed TCC including through the Townsville District Disaster Management Group.
Swathes of Australia are set to sizzle through an extreme heatwave in the coming days as temperatures more than 10 degrees above the mid-January average.
A heatwave is forecast for all of South Australia, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory over the weekend leading up to Australia Day.
New South Wales will also get a blast of the sweltering heat as a high pressure system makes its way over the Tasman Sea.
Weatherzone meteorologist Ben Domensino shared a horror map showing just how hot some regions will get this weekend in lead up to next Tuesday s public holiday. Parts of southern and southeastern Australia will endure a severe to extreme heatwave between now and Australia Day, with daytime temperatures climbing 10C above the mid-summer average in some areas. This image shows forecast surface temperatures at 4pm each day, he tweeted.
He said there were several key factors which upped the difficulty level. The first was the size of the system, comparatively tiny compared to the monstrous Cyclone Yasi which bore down on the region a decade ago, Kimi was described - in the bureau s own technical terminology - as a midget cyclone . Mr Narramore said because of the system s size it was very easily influenced by other weather systems in the area which could literally buffet it in different directions. In the past few days there has been an upper level trough and a high pressure system in the region which both exerted their force on little Kimi.
Heavy rains are expected to continue into the early autumn in Australia, although the 2020-21 La Niña weather pattern has likely peaked, the country's weather bureau said on Tuesday.