![]() By local standards, the last two summers have been very mild and wet.īut Canberra's weather has now been mostly stable for a couple of weeks, with just two rain days in February to date, and locals say it's actually starting to feel like summer. Canberra had just 4 days of 30☌ or higher in January 2022.Ĭanberra is famous for being freezing in winter (by Australian standards) and hot and dry in summer.Canberra had 19 days of 30☌ or higher in January 2020 (including Canberra's hottest recorded temperature of 44☌ on Jan 4).Canberra had 25 days of 30☌ or higher in January 2019.Canberra had just 6 days of 30 ☌ or higher in December 2021 (and none of them even reached 31☌).Canberra had 18 days of 30☌ or higher in December 2019.Canberra had 12 days of 30☌ or higher in December 2018.One way is to highlight the number of days when the maximum temp reached (or exceeded) 30☌. There are many ways to compare Canberra's two hot summers with the ensuing relatively cool pair. Meanwhile this afternoon's warmth is quite atypical for the 2021/22 Canberra summer to date, as the following info shows:Īs a background, the national capital had its hottest and second-hottest summers on record respectively in the summers of 2018//20.īut this summer and last summer have been extremely mild by comparison, due of course to La Niña, which typically brings extra cloudiness and rain. Image: OK, so it's not quite above Parly House. Here's another view of the anvil cloud, this time from Canberra's Red Hill. As a result, the air spread out like smoke on a glass window." The anvil part is caused when the rising air hits a warmer, stable layer that it can't rise past. ![]() "It's a very tiny anvil cloud from a cumulus cloud. Source: Fenji Stradwick.įor the record, Weatherzone meteorologist Joel Pippard offered this highly knowledgeable and quite poetic description of the cloud: Image: A "very tiny" and we think quite cute anvil cloud over Canberra. Local artist Fenji Stradwick took this pic on Wednesday afternoon in Pialligo (near the airport) looking west towards the parliamentary zone. They always say that Parliament House in Canberra is full of hot air, and here's your proof.
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