Temperatures are expected to tumble some 16C below the June average for central and eastern parts of the state. While practically ALL of the Aussie continent should brace for an extreme chill by Wednesday:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for June 9 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Sydney and parts of coastal NSW have already shivered through an exceptionally cold morning on Monday, June 7, with clear skies seeing temperatures plunge to 0.8C in Camden, 1.4C in Lake Macquarie and 2C in Campbelltown — these lows follow Sydney logging its coldest day in 5 years last Thursday.
The cold front will cross into south-west Victoria on Monday night and spread to Melbourne on Tuesday.
“We are predicting snow down to 900m (2,950ft) in the south-west which could mean we get some snow on the peaks of the Grampians,” said Christie Johnson, a duty forecaster with the Bureau of Meteorology.
Heavy snow is also forecast to be down to 1,000m (3,280ft) for the rest of the state on Tuesday and Wednesday.
GFS Total Snowfall (cm) June 7 – June 22 [tropicaltidbits.com].
The cold air is coming up from the “far south,” added Johnson, meaning temperatures will be “much colder than they have been”–as helpful as ever BOM.
The front will reach western NSW on Tuesday morning and Sydney and the coast by Wednesday.
Canberra will touch just 8C (46.4F) on Wednesday.
While Guyra is forecast to struggle to 3C (37.4F) during the day on Thursday, threatening records.
The Antarctic blast will also reach as far north as sub-tropical Queensland.
The likes of Stanthorpe will struggle to just 8C (46.4F) during the day, with a low of -2C (28.4F) forecast overnight.
A severe weather warning has been issued for South Australia’s southern coastal regions as a blast of wintry weather moves across the state.
The BOM has said that a vigorous cold front will move across the west and south bringing significant rain and hail to some regions.
And moving into Tuesday, snow is forecast on the highest peaks in the Flinders Ranges with daily highs unlikely to reach double figures (degrees Celsius).
Shots of intense polar cold will be the common theme over the next few weeks (at least).
Beginning around June 14, another Antarctic air mass will push into western Australia.
By June 16, the entire continent will be engulfed, and the cold will linger for the foreseeable.
Those “blues” and “purples” look particularly extensive by June 20:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for June 9 [tropicaltidbits.com].
This, in my book, will go down as your first Grand Solar Minimum winter (of the modern cooling epoch).
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