The Weather at Armidale NSW
Left: Mammatus cloud associated with
storms around
Armidale in the afternoon of November 13th 2009.
LATEST NEWS
NOVEMBER HEATWAVE - Hot
north-westerly winds have been producing near record high temperatures over
northern inland New South Wales in the last few days. Armidale’s
record-breaking run of above 30 degree temperatures as follows:
Monday Nov 16th - Maximum 32.2C. The temp remained above 30 degrees from
12.30pm to 6.30pm with the maximum at 4.00pm.
Tuesday Nov 17th - The maximum of 33.4C was highest for the month of
November since 1968. The temperature remained above 30 degrees from 11.30am to
4.00pm with the maximum at 3.20pm.
Wednesday Nov 18th - Max 31.2C. Temperature above 30 degrees from 2.30
to 4.30pm with the maximum at 4.00pm.
Thursday Nov 19th - Max 33.1C. Temperature above 30 degrees from 12.30
to 5.45pm with the maximum at 4.20pm.
Friday Nov 20th - Max 34.5C - highest for November since 1944.
Temperature above 30 degrees from 10.45am to 6.30pm with the maximum at 3.50pm.
Saturday Nov 21st - Max 33.6C up to 3pm.
WET START TO NOVEMBER - November 4th to 7th - An upper level trough
over north-eastern NSW combined with moist easterly winds brought heavy rain to
the north coast with flooding in the Bellingen and Coffs Harbour areas.
Armidale missed the heaviest rain, but still received some moderate falls
totaling 35.2 mm over the four days.
OCTOBER RAINFALL TOTAL: 71.0 mm on
12 days which was only just over the average of 68 mm. The heaviest rain fell
on the 26th and 27th totaling 39.2 mm. Full details in the October 2009 Weather
Review here.
COLDEST OCTOBER MORNING FOR 6 YEARS - October 17th - As a result of cool southerly winds over the region on the
16th and a calm clear night, the temperature dropped to an unusually chilly -3.1C
with a frost just after sunrise at 6.45am. This was the lowest October
temperature since October 12th 2003 (-3.5C).
DUST HAZE - October 13th/14th - In a repeat of conditions in late
September, once again strong westerly winds carried large quantities of fine
brown dust across northern NSW from areas in the west. The dust arrived in
Armidale from around noon on Tuesday October 13th with visibility reduced to
less than ten kilometers in the afternoon. The dust thickened overnight with
visibility down to five kilometres at 9am on Wednesday the 14th. It cleared
later in the afternoon. This now makes four days of dust in Armidale in 2009.
SEPTEMBER RAINFALL TOTAL: 33.4 mm on
4 days. This was 18 mm less than the average with the rain falling in just two events
on the 7th/8th and 21st/22nd. Day temperatures were higher than normal, but
nights were cold. Full details in the September 2009 Weather Review here.
DUST STORM - Wednesday September
23rd - Armidale residents awoke to find the city covered in a choking cloud of
thick brown dust. Horizontal visibility was 300 metres at 7am and gradually
improved as the day progressed. More details of this highly unusual event here.
There was a repeat
of the dust on Saturday September 26th, but visibility on this occasion did not
drop below two kilometres.
WINTER 09 WEATHER REVIEW - It was a much drier and milder winter than
normal this year. Full details here.
AUGUST RAINFALL TOTAL: 23.0 mm on 6 days. This was only about
half the average with the majority of the rain (18.0 mm) falling over the
weekend of the 29th & 30th. Full details in the August 2009 Weather Review here.
RECORD AUGUST HEAT - August 23rd/24th - As
very warm air moved over this region from the centre of the continent
preceding a cool change, temperatures in Armidale soared to reach record high
levels for the month of August. The maximum on the 23rd was 25.5C which
was a new record, but the following day this was surpassed with a maximum of 27.4C.
These temperatures are in the summer range and were the highest on record for
August from 101 years of records. The previous highest was 25.2C on August 19th
1995.
As the warm air lingered overnight, the minimum temperature the following
morning (the 25th) was an extremely mild 14.8C. This was the highest
August minimum on record from 69 years of records. The previous highest was
11.1C on August 23rd 1988.
LATEST WEATHER FORECAST FOR ARMIDALE
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for the most recent four day forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology.
FORECAST RAINFALL
Where will it fall, when will it fall, and how much is likely to
fall?
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to access the Bureau of Meteorology's four day rainfall predictions.
DECEMBER IN ARMIDALE - What can we expect?
The first month of summer
brings humid conditions and warm to very warm days with temperatures often
reaching the high twenties and sometimes into the low thirties. Nights are
still mostly cool with minimums occasionally below 5 degrees.
Rainfall
can be moderate to heavy with much of it falling from thunderstorms as the
storm season reaches its peak in December. Flash flooding is often a feature of
these storms, and hail is also possible. Hot sunny days are often cooled in the
late afternoon by thunderstorms which build up rapidly after the middle of the
day.
Average max temp: 25.0
deg Average
min temp: 11.0 deg
Average rainfall: 88.4 mm on 10
days Average
fine sunny days: 16
Average days with thunderstorms:
8 Average frosts: 0.3
Average hours of sunshine per day: 8.1
Hottest: 34.8 deg on
Hottest at former CBD site: 37.7 deg on Dec 20th 1938
National Climate Centre prediction for December 2009: Rainfall
below average, temperatures higher than normal.
THIS MONTH - NOVEMBER 2009
TOTAL RAINFALL up to
9am on the 21st:
40.0 mm (Long term average: 83 mm)
THIS YEAR - 2009 up
to 9am on November 21st:
TOTAL RAINFALL: 627.2
mm (Jan to Oct average: 699 mm,
annual average: 787 mm)
HIGHEST DAILY RAINFALL: 55.8 mm
on May 23rd
HIGHEST TEMPERATURE: 37.8C
on Feb 9th
LOWEST TEMPERATURE: -7.0C
on Jun 12th & Aug 9th
COLD DAYS - MAXIMUM BELOW 10C: 7
(Annual average: 15)
COLD MORNINGS WITH FROSTS: 93
(Annual average: 98)
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WEATHER ARCHIVE - HAILSTORMS
- MONTHLY DATA FILES & YEARLY REVIEWS
CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS AT ARMIDALE AIRPORT
This
is the latest temperature and wind information at Armidale Airport.
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to access further data from the Bureau of Meteorology's Automatic Weather
Station at Armidale Airport. Data is updated half hourly.
Note: the airport is 93 metres higher and five kilometres from the city weather
station resulting in slightly different weather conditions occurring there.
Winds are usually around 10 to 15 kms per hour stronger at the airport. Day
temps are about one degree lower, and night and early morning temps can be
around two to four degrees higher at the airport.
WEATHER AT OTHER LOCATIONS ON THE NORTHERN TABLELANDS
DO YOU HAVE ANY PHOTOGRAPHS OF ARMIDALE'S WEATHER? I'm
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any which you think look good (interesting clouds, sunsets, hail, frosts, snow,
floods etc) in or around Armidale, please email me here.
Information
and statistics in these pages referring to Armidale originate from the Bureau
of Meteorology weather station in East Armidale.
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