The weather where you live right now...

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January 2014 was very dry across the Perth metropolitan area. Many sites received no rainfall and whilst those that did mostly reported less than 1 mm. The highest monthly rainfall total in the Perth area for January was 1.4 mm at Mt Helena.
A single rainfall event in January 2014 in Perth came at the middle of the month when a weak cold front moved through the southwest corner of the State overnight on the 15th and 16th.
Perth Metro recorded only 0.2 mm on one day (16th), which was well below the long-term December average of 9.7 mm on 2.5 rain days. It was Perth Metro's driest January for four years, since January 2010 when zero rainfall was recorded.

Perth Metro's mean maximum temperature in January 2014 was 32.3 ºC, which is above the long-term average of 31.1 °C. Daily maxima at Perth Metro ranged from a mild of 25.6 ºC on the 5th and 6th, to a very hot 43.3 ºC on the 11th. The latter was the highest temperature recorded at Perth Metro for just over six years, since 44.2 °C was recorded on 26 December 2007, and the highest January temperature for nearly 23 years, since 45.8 ºC was recorded on 31 January 1991. The following day was also remarkable with a 9am temperature of 39.0 °C being the highest 9am temperature on record for Perth Metro from data going back to 1942, followed by a maximum of 41.0 °C at 9:39am before a change came through.

Perth recorded an average daily sunshine of 12.4 hours in January 2014
 

January 2014 was very dry across the Perth metropolitan area. Many sites received no rainfall and whilst those that did mostly reported less than 1 mm. The highest monthly rainfall total in the Perth area for January was 1.4 mm at Mt Helena.
A single rainfall event in January 2014 in Perth came at the middle of the month when a weak cold front moved through the southwest corner of the State overnight on the 15th and 16th.
Perth Metro recorded only 0.2 mm on one day (16th), which was well below the long-term December average of 9.7 mm on 2.5 rain days. It was Perth Metro's driest January for four years, since January 2010 when zero rainfall was recorded.

Perth Metro's mean maximum temperature in January 2014 was 32.3 ºC, which is above the long-term average of 31.1 °C. Daily maxima at Perth Metro ranged from a mild of 25.6 ºC on the 5th and 6th, to a very hot 43.3 ºC on the 11th. The latter was the highest temperature recorded at Perth Metro for just over six years, since 44.2 °C was recorded on 26 December 2007, and the highest January temperature for nearly 23 years, since 45.8 ºC was recorded on 31 January 1991. The following day was also remarkable with a 9am temperature of 39.0 °C being the highest 9am temperature on record for Perth Metro from data going back to 1942, followed by a maximum of 41.0 °C at 9:39am before a change came through.

Perth recorded an average daily sunshine of 12.4 hours in January 2014

Fark me you're Angela Tsun
 
Currently in a long spell of heat here. It's normally a lot cooler, on average, than WA, but we've recently broken our record for consecutive days over 30.0°C. Bad weekend forecast which could see worse conditions than Black Saturday where it reached 47.0°C

Would love a bit-o-rain...
 
This winter's been a right disaster. Snow's been on the ground for weeks, it hasn't been above freezing here in months.

Today, it was -1F when I walked out the door or -18C for you metric clowns. That's -1 on the bulb, not including the wind chill which I'd put at -15F or -26C.

Crap.

Trading it in a month for 10 days on Maui. Suck it, arctic vortex.
 
This winter's been a right disaster. Snow's been on the ground for weeks, it hasn't been above freezing here in months.

Today, it was -1F when I walked out the door or -18C for you metric clowns. That's -1 on the bulb, not including the wind chill which I'd put at -15F or -26C.

Crap.

Trading it in a month for 10 days on Maui. Suck it, arctic vortex.

We had one day (1) above freezing in January up I-94. The snow piles are massive. My alley has turned into a bobsled run.
 

Ok, it's only 33C at the moment but there's fires to the North of us, about 3-5k's away. The cool change has just hit meaning the wind has swung around & blowing the fires away from us.
 
This isn't the one near me, but it's becoming an annual event sadly...

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And in sharp contrast to south east Australia, it's currently -26c, with a windchill factor making it feel like -35c in Edmonton. Still, we have clear blue skies and sun. Might be more snow flurries today & tomorrow.

Hope you safe down there, Biggyrat?
 
Cheers TB! I hope you can stay warm up there!

Yes, we're safe. The cool change brought a wind change & the fire took off to the North. I'm just a few k's South of the bottom tip of the fire but, as you can see, it became a running grassfire & they couldn't catch it. Flat, dry plains of grass all to the North.

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*For anyone interested, if the wind swings back to the West, that will become a 40k wide fire front & it will head to where the main fire was during Black Saturday. On the right of the map is Kinglake, one of the towns wiped off the map on that fateful day.
 
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