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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Beating Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) beats Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Very large temperature inversion and diurnal temperature range over Southwest WA
Perth Airport sees coldest day this early in the year on record
Perth sees wettest June day in 37 years
Singapore sees highest temperature on record
Siberia cold wave
Perth sees coldest Halloween morning on record
Perth Hills Snow?
Alice Springs seeing longest run of freezing mornings on record by a large margin
Top End coastal 4°C: Tropical Australia cold spell
South Australia sees 4th coldest morning on record
Northern Territory -7°C
-2°C just 30 km from Broome: tropical Australia cold spell
Darwin's longest cool spell since 1974
Perth sees unusually cold and wet day
118.2 mm: Shanghai sees wettest day outside of summer/early autumn on record by a large margin after 33°C heat
Perth sees wettest April day in 10 years
Gold Coast sees wettest March day on record, almost twice previous record
Queensland sees giant hail, tornadoes
Perth sees hottest summer on record by a large margin
Perth sees coolest morning this early in the year in 5 years, this early in autumn in 13 years
Unusual February rain: Kota Bharu sees wettest February on record beating previous record by almost 3 times
Brisbane sees wettest month since 1893
Shock Perth thunderstorms
Sydney sees wettest day of summer
Extreme monsoon break conditions
-28°C at Zhangjiakou Olympic Village
Visibility below 100 meters: Beijing Winter Olympics Disruption
Thunderstorms possible within the Perth Area on Monday
WA severe thunderstorms bring 137 km/h wind gusts
Mad 45.5°C at Gooseberry Hills
Perth sees hottest January in 60 years
Perth sees longest 40+°C spell on record for any Australian capital city
Perth sees second hottest December on record
Perth sees worst December heatwave on record, second worst on record for any month
Perth sees longest 40+°C spell on record
Perth sees second hottest December day on record
Perth sees hottest Christmas Day on record
Perth's worst heatwave on record: February 1933
Almost 400 mm in a day: Record breaking Kuala Lumpur rainfall
Perth sees warmest night this early in summer on record
Perth sees wettest November day on record
Perth experiences wettest October since 1965 and coolest since 2005
China hit by unusual October heatwave
Crazy -10˚C dew point at Perth Airport despite sea breeze
Perth sees warmest day on record this early in Spring
Singapore sees wettest August on record by a large margin: country-wide average of 426.2 mm beating 293.6 mm
Perth sees coldest Spring day since 2009
Mt Lawley site sees second driest August after second wettest July
Darwin sees wettest August day since 1988
Wettest August day on record by a large margin in Singapore
Tokyo sees wettest August day since 2003
Tokyo sees hottest day of the year after wind gusts over 90 km/h and wettest August day in 5 years
Tokyo sees wettest August day in 5 years
Perth sees wettest July in 26 years after coldest June in 26 years
Second strongest July wind gust on record, strongest since 1975 at Pearce RAAF
Already wettest July in 26 years
Perth sees second longest July wet spell on record
Already the longest July wet spell since July 1964
-12.3°C morning followed by 16.8°C afternoon in Glen Innes on this date in 2019
Mandurah station sees strongest July wind gust on record
Already wettest month in more than 2 years in the first 9 days of this July
More rain in an hour than during March the 2010 hailstorm
Perth July 2020 rainfall exceeded in first 8 days of July 2021
Perth Airport sees strongest July wind gust in 19 years, Rottnest Island in 10 years
Perth sees wettest July day in 20 years
New world record: 39.6°C above 60°N
41.1°C at 1000 meters above sea level in Canada
42.9°C at 2010 Winter Olympics Ski Resort
"90% burned": Canada's 49.6°C village destroyed by wildfire
Higher number of all time records smashed by more than 5°C than worldwide combined since July 1936
Higher 850 hPa temperatures than during Australia's hottest over such a large area at such high latitudes
-7.3°C : World's second coldest tropical low level temperature on record just this morning
World's coldest city sees warmest June on record, driest in 133 years
Perth sees coldest June in 26 years
New record: Canada 49.6°C
Portland 47°C: Record broken by 8°C
Seattle 42°C: Record beaten by 7°C
Sunburnt country beaten: Canada 47.9°C today, worst not over
Canada at risk of 50°C
Perth sees coldest June morning since June 26 2010 (same date 11 years ago)
Perth sees longest spell of June below 5°C minimums since 2010
Perth Airport sees highest number of consecutive June days with minimum below 1°C on record
Coldest June morning since 2010
Mandurah sees wettest June day on record
Rottnest Island sees wettest June day on record
Earliest monsoon onset on record over many parts of India
Coldest on record since 1859: Sydney 10.3°C maximum
Afternoon snow near the Queensland border
Melbourne's coldest Autumn morning in more than 70 years
Perth sees coldest day this early in the year in 20 years
Federal Government launches Australian Climate Service
Wettest May day in 58 years at Perth Airport
Wettest second half of April on record by a large margin in Cairns
Rare subtropical storm to the southeast of Brazil
Strongest April tropical cyclone on record anywhere on earth by a large margin
Nocturnal thunderstorm development deep inland over Peninsula Malaysia
Records smashed with historic category 3 tropical cyclone landfall over west coast of Western Australia
Deadliest tropical cyclone season since 1973
Mid spring -39°C in Alaskan city: April record low broken
Southwest monsoon onset 3 months earlier than usual
Warmer than usual next few months for Perth- BOM
Perth Airport sees latest 40.0°C+ Autumn day on record.
2.16 times monthly rainfall in a day: Rare March monsoon rainfall in Malaysia
Around 1100mm of rain at New South Wales station: Wettest month on record by a margin
Perth experiences second latest Autumn heatwave on record
Perth sees longest autumn warm night spell on record by a large margin
Global warming?: Melaka sees first March La Niña heatwave on record
Perth January 2021 winds the most anomalous easterly on record
Winter record broken by almost 6°C: 25.6°C in Beijing
21.1°C in Hamburg, winter record beaten by 3°C
Historic 946 hPa low near Japan
Coldest city in the world experiences longest frigid spell in 36 years
991.5 hPa at Rottnest Island, Perth's lowest February MSLP since 1915 or 1937
Singapore sees wettest January in 128 years, Spanish Flu record broken
Coldest city in the world experiences coldest month in 27 years
Perth cyclone of February 10 1937
Singapore experiences coldest January in 34 years
Fremantle Doctor fails again
Highest number of January Fremantle Doctor failure days in 45 years
Unusual Frigid Spell In Siberia, Schools Shut
Unusual strong easterlies over Victoria
Fremantle Doctor fails for 5 consecutive days twice in the same January
Singapore experiences windiest day on record
Perth overnight thunderstorms
West coast trough offshore for 7 consecutive days, longest on record in January
5 consecutive days of Fremantle Doctor failure: Longest in January since 2000
Perth Airport sees strongest January wind gust in over 20 years
Perth on track to see longest December hot spell on record by a large margin
Coldest this early in 43 years: -44.4°C at Yellowknife
Perth sees wettest November on record
ECMWF ensemble: Almost a 100% chance of Perth seeing wettest November on record
Perth experiences 3rd warmest October on record
Perth sees longest October dry spell in 138 years
Governor-General receives Bushfire Royal Commission report, embargoed until Friday
Wildfires, firestorms replaced by -36°C in Colorado
-32°C in US city: All time October record low exceeded by 4°C
Marine heatwave to develop off the west coast WA?
BOM: More than 85% chance Perth sees hotter than average summer
Perth's longest October dry spell in 138 years?
US runs out of Atlantic tropical cyclone names for 2020
40.1°C over the southern coast of Australia
Western Australia experiences warmest winter on record
Coldest morning of winter
Perth sees strongest August wind gust on record
-9.7˚C morning followed by 17.5˚C afternoon in Glen Innes
Perth sees coldest August day in 52 years
An illustration of chaos theory
More than 3 months worth of rain falls within a day
200 meters visiblity in Verkhoyansk due to wildfire smoke
ECMWF model simulation of crazy high temperatures over Siberian Arctic
35.4˚C at 70.02˚ Latitude despite cloudy conditions
Study Finds Siberian Heatwave Nearly Impossible Without Climate Change, Rare Even Under Current Climate
-13°C morning following 27°C afternoon in South Africa
27°C afternoon following -15°C morning in South Africa
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Why the large diurnal temperature variation?
-15°C in South Africa, not on a mountain
2019-2020 Australian bushfires comparable to volcanic eruption
Hot conditions return to northeastern Siberia
Big Change:Verkhoyansk Sees Coldest July Day On Record
Hot plume over Arctic Ocean
34.3°C over coastal Arctic village
Crazy:Siberian Arctic area the hottest east of 115° in infrared satellite observations
Verkhoyansk June 2020 heatwave
38˚C in the Arctic, 4 consecutive 34˚C+ days and counting
Southeast Asian southwest monsoon takes a break
With and without climate change
New analysis finds Cyclone Mangga was likely strongest cyclone to affect the west coast of Southwest WA since Cyclone Alby
Rare warm season like thunderstorms hits Perth
Record breaking June warmth in western WA
New study finds possible rebirth of Indian Ocean El Niño with climate change
2.4°C northwest of Joondalup
Intense thunderstorms to the north of northwestern Australia
Thunderstorms associated with the tropical upper level cold pool
Perth highest April temperature record smashed
April 1910 hot spell
October wind gust records smashed
Singapore sees hottest and driest September on record
Kuala Lumpur sees hottest September on record
Beijing sees warmest September on record
Western Australia sees warmest September on record
Greenhouse gas emissions from Indonesian fires alone in 2 months comparable to Australia's annual emissions
Indonesian fires return
October Record high tied at Pearce RAAF, Perth Airport Experiences Second Hottest October Day On Record
Antarctic Oscillation Index at lowest since 2016
Australia's 3rd warmest October, driest year to date since 1902
Second warmest October on record in WA
Perth severe thunderstorm: Stronger than March 22 2010 wind gust at Mt Lawley
Comparison with March 22 2010
Records shattered: 40.4°C at Perth Metro, 43.1°C at Pearce, 41.1°C at Perth Airport
Kalgoorlie sees new record high
3 consecutive 45°C+ days in Adelaide
Melbourne December record highs broken
Canberra sees hottest December day on record by a margin
48.9°C in Sydney's West, record broken
44.0°C in Canberra, new record high
69.8°C and 128 km/h wind gusts in NSW town
Climate change made recent fire conditions over NSW less likely?
No statistically significant increasing trend in summer fire weather conditions over eastern NSW
Australia's hottest and driest year on record
Rare Perth sea fog
Southwest monsoon rain
March 22 2010 Perth hailstorm
Satellite loop of rare late April monsoon rain
Temperature
Marine heatwave for WA?
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More than 800 mm of rain within 24 hours, more than 15,000 evacuated
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