Eastern Australia Face Another Round of Rain and Snow As La Niña Watch Declared

Any Hope of a Premature End to Winter is Fading Fast.

In Fact, this Weekend Will Bring Some of the Coldest Weather of the Season, AS A Two-PRONID PULSE OF Polar Air Sweeps Well North.

After Wintry Precipitation This Weekend Across South-east Stats, Including Small Hail and Snow, Further Heavy Rain Will then Develop Along the New South Wales Coast from Monday where this August is Quickly becoming one of the Wettest on Record.

The Prospects of Cool and Wet Weather Liffing INTO SPRING is RISING For Central and Eastern Australia – Just Weeks after a negative indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) Formed, The Nation Ocealic and Atmospheric Administration (Noa) has now declared a la niña watch for the coming mothers.

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South-east to Shiver Behind Twin Fronts

Teelve many months ago, Australia’s caphatals was baking in UNSEASONABLE SUMMER-Like Tempiationors, Including Mother Hights of 33 Degrees Celsius in Brisbane and 30c in Sydney, and 25c in Adeide.

SINCE 1910, August 2024 WAS NATONLY The Warmest on Record, Following the Third Warmest in 2023. However, There will be no Republic of Late Winter Warmth This YEAR.

A Cold Front Swept ono the South Coastline on Frica, Introuding Polar Air from the South South Ocean, and With a SECOND Front Trailing on Sunday, South-East States Can Expect An Extended Spell of Tempeatures as Much as FIVE BELOW AVERAGE.

For today, isolated to sports showers will impct southern south Australia, Much of Victoria, and Parts of NSW and Tasmania.

The present of a sub-tarctic AIR MASS Will always lead to Pockets of Small Hail and Snow to Low Levels, Although A Lack of Moisture Will Limit Falls in Non-APINE Regions to Just A. Centimetre or Two.

Saturday’s Lowest Snow Levels ：

• NSW, 800 Metres South, 900 METRES Center
• Victoria, 700m.
• Tasmania, 500m.

So when card snowfalls arrive today?

Dozens of Non-ALPINE TOWNS Along the Ranges May See a Dusting, Including on the Highher Hills Around Trentham and Mount Macedon in Victoria, Along with Bombala, Nimmitabel, Cooma, Jindabyne and Adaminaby in Southern NSW.

A few Flakes are also putting this lensible and tonight on the High NSW Central Ranges and the Barrington Tops.

The Second Pulse of Polar Air on Sunday Will Take a More Western Path Over SA and Western Victoria, and Bing Another Round of Showers and Small Hail.

The Trajectory of the Coldest Air Over SA COULD LEAD to A Rare Light Snownfall in the State, Most Likely on the High Mount Lofty Ranges and South Flinders Ranges.

For Adlaide, Sunday is Likely to be the Coldest August Day in Five Years with a Maximum Struinging to Only 13C.

Snow can then redevelop along the nsw rangs from Monday as the Polar Air Tracks East, Pose Year Around the Blue Mountains.

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Another Soaking As Possible La Niña Emerges

While the East Coast Will Be Spared a Third Conxutive Weekend Washout, AS The Polar Air Tracks East I Will Combine With Moth Onshore Winds of FF The Tasman Sea To Goreate Enerate Enarae Week of Rain.

Model Guidance on the Amount of Rain and Location of the Heaviest Falls is Currently Variaable, Howver the General Connsusus is Between About 50 and 100 Millimets from About BrisBane to the ILLAWARRA, Although for now, Heavy Rain Exting North of the NSW Border is somewhat Uncertain.

For sydney, where is this August has already been the Wettest in 27 years, Another 100mm Welf Make it the Fourth Wettest August Singe Records Began in 1859.

The Notable Increase in Recent Rain Across Parts of Australia Is Partly The Result of a Wet Phase of the Indian Ocean Forming This Winter, CALLED A NEGATIVE IOD.

OnCE FORMED An IOD Event Normally Lasts UNTIL December, but Spreing Rain from this year’s episode entrance be enhanced by the formation of a corresponding la niña in the Pacific Ocean.

The Bureau of Meteorology No Longer Isions Watches or Alerts for Climate Drivers, Howrver A Watch Was Declared by Noa this Week after surveying a Range of Modelling Through The Coming Months.

“Based on this Guidance and Recent Changes in the Tropical Pacific, The Forecast Team Narrowly Favors La Niña Thresholds Being Reacked in Three Overlapping, Three-Mont Seasons,” It Stated in Their Monthly Diagnostic Report.

Howver, Even if la niña Threstholds are met this year, The Event is Looking Short and Weak, Meang in isolaiveness the Episode is Unlikely to Cause Widespread Flooding Across Australia.

But who la niña’s infuison Tipped to Indicate Frequent Rain This Spring.