We have just discovered a couple of puddles where the wind has actually blown the rain in through windows on the windward side of the house. - Either that or a really high tide

Looking at a couple of weather stations at Bunbury Port, last night gusted to about 52 knts (~95 km/h) with a ten min average speed of 42 knts (~78 km/h). That's not that different from Sunday 53/46 knts, just Sunday lasted longer.

We are a lot closer to the coast than that Gareth and there was a few freight train moments, lots of horizontal rain, and the puppy spent the night IN MY 18 yr olds BED!!! Big sook!

But apart from that not bad.
Incredible day today though. Bright and fresh and still.

We had rain come through an upstairs door to our balcony that was a good 2 meters under cover but at the front of the house and the rain was coming into the house sideways.

But it better be warm and dry from now on because we started our extension today and the back half of the roof comes off in about 3 weeks.

That was most definitely MY experience.

BUT a lot of people lost fences - at least 10 I know personally, and more than that were without power for extended periods of time. Loads of trees down, so I reckon that could have caused a fair bit f damage if they landed on cars or other valuable items.

I think it was a bit of a fizzer, but recognise that a few people lost rooves etc.

great morning this morning, with an official minimum of 2.7

Jandekot recorded 0.2C with an apparent temp of -3 deg.

I had to chisel the ice off the car

Papabear reckoned we might have snow in Perth while I am away, and I would miss it. I am prepared to risk it.

unfortunately you need cold AND wet at the same time for snow - In perth, we get one or the other, but never at the same time

Dear Santa,

Thank you for bringing the mild temperatures ... Not!

Christmas Day: 39C
Boxing Day: 37C
27/12: 39C
28/12: 39C
30/12: 40C
31/12: 40C

Looks like Perth summer back on track after last years lovely beautiful mild summer!!!

Hey grumpy Traps: Merry Christmas.

42.7°C at my place in the shade at the moment!! Maybe I should crawl into the beer fridge?

the official top in Perth today was 37.5 and the Jandakot weather station near us measured 39.8.

How did you manage to get so high Trappers?

We are closer to Perth airport which got to 41.0C but we are also in a hollow and get shielded from any kind of sea breeze ... We are often 2-3C higher than the local stations.

D-Amn! It gets worse!

Beer fridge at +16C??

some idiot left the door open!

THAT'S how a Perth summer should be

I remember a few years ago hitting Trigg beach for a couple of hours on Boxing Day; temp was 44C. Yeah Baby!!!

Was that you trappers??

That's seriously y trappers.

Traps. Just jump on a flight to Melbourne. We've got nice cool weather until Thursday of next week (when it will be a stinker)

Yes and also seriously :awesome:

this is also a bit nerdy (not supposed to be on a white background and yes I need to fix it a bit so it makes more sense ... makes sense to me though!)

From www.itbetterbesunny.com ... and no the webcam is not working, been too lazy to get up on the roof and fix it, might do on Saturday.



No it was the FIL ... you can see how long it took to cool back down! Essentially 12hrs!

Just looking at the fridge activity before the spike.

An 1100 start to festivities judging by the temp raise. Nice work.

Yep. Good friend of mine years back was from Perth. Subi. He was so grateful for Canberra summers where the norm, median is around 31 degrees over Jan Feb, and humidity sits around 15 to 30% from 10 to 5 (AEDST).

He lived without A/C in Perth. Spent all his time at the beach.

Gee, trappers! Now nerdy are you? Not only thermometers in 4 places around the house, but hooked into your computer too!!

Trappers, I assume DP is dew point?

are you measuring this or a simple calulation?

At the beach on a 42°C day in Perth? Your feet and toes would be fried to a crisp on the sand before 2pm and afterwards you would be sandblasted by the sea breeze ... literally! best time for the beach here is before 10am!

The Canberra average max in December is 26, and 28 in Jan ... if the Median is 31 (cant find that anywhere) then that implies there are some bloody cold days skewing the average! Still I'd prefer that over this heat.

Already 38.9°C here at 10am


and yes 11:00am, it was boxing day after all and the cricket started at 7:30am!

Tekel ... it is a silly hobby you don't want to know how nerdy it really is ... with the solar power hooked up to the computer and full electricity monitoring too using bespoke hand written code and webpages

Yes DP= Dew point ... and measuring it.

The data is here if you want ... http://www.itbetterbesunny.com/weather.php still working on the webpage and there are some other numbers I need to output when I get a chance ...

11am and we are already at 38deg