Hottest November EVER (Disturbing)

Just letting you know that the long term average Max temp here for November is 17.0c, the last few years were 18c with the all time record standing at 18.3 in 2006. This November so far with 10 days to go has been 23.3c. This is a very large difference :0, Where I rent 20km/s to the North where the cooling of the sea doesn't offer the same protection the Average has been nearly 28c

The following thread was started by Jaosn on November 19, 2009 at 9:09 am PST

I just went outside because I heard alot of stuff landing on the roof. So I got outside, the door nearly ripped out of my hands and I got BLASTED by 30c hot air, must have been travling about 80km/h (this is 4:30am btw) and theres dust and bugs and leaves and twigs flying all around, very strange:P

The above followup was added by Jason on November 19, 2009 at 9:39 am PST.

The Radar has been showing moderate rain falling here all night but not even one drop has landed, I guess it's drying up mid air somewhere

The above followup was added by Jason on November 19, 2009 at 9:40 am PST.

You Guys often have our weather 6 months before us I wonder if we will have your roasting hot spring too..

So far this fall has been very gentle, but your letter makes me want to get my buddy Dave the out of work plummer to come over and help put in a gray water system.

The above followup was added by Sheila Bailey on November 19, 2009 at 10:15 am PST.

Sheila, consider rainwater roof catchment tanks too.

The above followup was added by John Valenzuela Novato,CA on November 19, 2009 at 1:35 pm PST.

Hey Jason sounds like another serious summer on the way down south, straight after last years' horrific temps. That was one reason we decided to move to Northern New South Wales, although the spring has been dry here at least there is the odd storm late in the day and the promise of heavy summer downpours. I'd hate to see the state of my farm in Woodend that we left after another dry year. Temps here outside Murwillumbah mostly around 24C for most of the year. Can't believe the healthy growth on the casimiroas, lucumos, atemoyas etc that I brought with me from Victoria, they are thriving after years of no growth south of the border. Keep cool.

The above followup was added by Phil (Australia) on November 19, 2009 at 3:27 pm PST.

My plants are actually growing better than the ever have in the past due to the very wet winter we had and that I also used chemical fertilizer for the first time (ooo bad bad) I didn't really know how much to put on so I just put heaps, Apart from some leaves growing a bit too fast and being slightly deformed I haven't killed anything yet. Most things have allready done a normal years worth of growing in a couple of months.

It looks like I'm in for a very heavy Avocado crop next year, in the hundreds of fruit range for the first time (more than 200)

The above followup was added by Jason on November 20, 2009 at 9:41 am PST.

Hey Jason, before anyone goes making assumptions about climate change, your hottest november on record is possibly balanced by our coldest october since 1945, and one of the lowest mean temperature winters on record.

The above followup was added by Ben on November 20, 2009 at 10:53 am PST.

The Climate in NZ is a by product of what happens on the really big eastern island :)? Seems to me that the hotter the sand is on Australia the more it pushes low weather systems off its boundries and makes them sweep down south, get colder and wetter and then once they are released they come back up and over NZ

The above followup was added by Jason on November 20, 2009 at 7:00 pm PST.

Hi Posters from the Western Island,

The news we hear from Australia isn't good!

This appeared in the local paper -

"January and February are likely to be horror months scorched by 40C-plus temperatures and more strong, hot winds that will push fire danger ratings into the catastrophic levels seen in parts of the three eastern states over the past week."

In my recent trip to the Yarra valley just North East of Melbourne, I saw the results of last February's firestorms with whole vineyards destroyed. If you are this hot this early, it promises to be a trying summer?

We are definitely affected by Australias weather - as the highs hovering over SE Aus dry them out, we pick up the southerly conveyor and get cool southerlies or the turbulence around the fronts that drag wet air from the eat and west coasts. We remain damp and cool, thank goodness.

After seeing the floods in England and Turkey (!) I'm glad to be buffered by the southern ocean.

The above followup was added by Nigel (NZ) on November 22, 2009 at 12:31 am PST.

We allready had a 150 hectare fire just outside my town last week after some very intense lightning strikes that came down without rain, if it wasn't for a last minute bit of rain the following morning we were about to be evacuated. But yeah it was burning pretty good considering it hasn't really got dry yet

The above followup was added by Jason on November 22, 2009 at 8:25 pm PST.

are bringing dry hot northwesterlies laden with dust and pollen over SE Australia including this coast before sweeping up south westerlies over NZ.
I don't know how this compares with normal pressure patterns.
Temperatures in places have reached 43-46 degrees C and it is not even summer yet.
Bananas are fruiting exceptionally well here in the right microclimate.

The above followup was added by lachlann, Sth Coast NSW on November 23, 2009 at 2:27 am PST.

Lachlann,

My bananas are just starting to put out their first leaves of spring after a hellish cold winter. - Yours are fruiting??

The above followup was added by Nigel (NZ) on November 23, 2009 at 2:45 pm PST.

and also a sweet small variety that I haven't identified yet. The ones I am harvesting flowered about May. We had a mild dry winter so they didn't receive any setbacks.
Even though I am the same latitude as Toka Toka,
If you check the current status of the weather maps below you will see what I mean by the way the typical air currents are flowing anticlockwise around the Tasman high. Lots of our air masses on this side start off in the tropics and then stream down across the continent, picking up speed and heat in the desert sun. That is why the southern parts of the continent can get extreme temperatures in the 40's., and why our dust can end up on Mt Cook! Unhappily folk living in Victoria suffer this air mass alternating with chilly southern winds. at least here we get mild moderating effects from the Pacific ocean.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/national_radar_sat.loop.shtml
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/nmoc/latest_MSLP.pl?IDCODE=IDY00050

The above followup was added by Lachlann, Sth Coast NSW on November 23, 2009 at 9:47 pm PST.