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Gungahlin's Forecast

1 August 2010

Cold with scattered shower developing during Sunday morning, falling as snow above 900m.  The chance of a thunderstorm with small hail.  Cold, strong and gusty W winds.  Outlook:  Cold and windy with a shower or two on Monday.  Milder and mostly sunny on Tuesday.

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It's Winter in Gungahlin!

Backyard snow - Ngunnawal 2005.

Average Winter Weather:

Min: 1.6°C.  Max: 12.1°C.  Rain: 148.4mm

Winter Records:

High: 21.0°C (1999).  Low: -6.6°C (2003).

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This Month So Far...

(July 2010)

Highest Temp:  14.8°C (25th)

Lowest Temp: -3.8°C (4th)

Rainfall: 47.6mm (last fall: 31/7/2010)

Predicted Rainfall This Month: 35mm

See Weather Data Archive for daily weather data.

 

2010 Weather Summary

Year to date*

Highest Temp:  38.2°C (40.1°C)

Lowest Temp: -4.9°C (-5.8°C)

Rainfall:  289.8mm

* 2009 highest and lowest temps are in (  ).

 

2010 Local Rainfall Challenge

Year to date to

16 July 2010*

Gungahlin: 283.2mm (390.2mm)

Canberra AP: 407.6mm (437.6mm)

Tuggeranong: 421.4mm (520.6mm)

Monash: 430.8mm (517.0mm)

Belconnen: 407.0mm

* 2009  rainfall totals are in (  ).

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Weather Links

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Australian ski/snowfall info

The Weather Channel (Aust)

EcoWatch Australia

Davis Instruments (USA)

The UK Met Office

Old Adaminaby  Weather

Monash (ACT)  Weather

Gold Creek Weather Station

Weather Online

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Rakovnik, Czech Republic Weather

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What's the weather normally like in Gungahlin in July?

Ave max: 11.1°C

Ave min: 1.1°C

Ave rain: 39.0mm

Rain days: 14

Days 10°C or below: 9

Nights 0°C or below: 14

No. of frosts: 19

No. of fogs: 5

July Records

Hottest day: 17.0°C (1999)

Coldest day: 4.6°C (2004)

Hottest night: 8.0°C (1999)

Coldest night: -6.2°C (2004)

Wettest: 93.0mm (1998)

Driest: 14.7mm (2004)

Max wind: 64.4km/h (2003)

The Gungahlin Weather Centre opened in 1998 and records all major weather elements including; temperature, rainfall, humidity, barometric pressure, dew point, heat index, wind direction, wind speed and wind chill.

The Gungahlin Weather Centre is located in Ngunnawal in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).  Ngunnawal is a northern suburb of Canberra (Australia's National Capital - population 345,000).  The name Gungahlin is taken from the Aboriginal word 'Goongarline' meaning "little rocky hill".

Gungahlin is 298km from Sydney, 655km from Melbourne, 3,953km from Perth and has a population of almost 40,000.

 

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Gungahlin's Climate:

Although the climate of Gungahlin is only mild on the world scale, it is fairly unique to Australia, with warm summers and cool to cold, frosty winters - Gungahlin even receives light snow falls in most winters!

Rainfall is moderate, averaging just under 550mm per year.  On average, spring is the wettest time of year and the autumn the driest.  Totals can vary widely from year to year.  Gungahlin is currently in the grip of one of the most severe droughts to effect the region in recorded history.

   

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Ave max

  27.9°C   20.6°C   12.1°C   20.1°C  

Ave min

  13.2°C   7.4°C   1.6°C   6.8°C  

Ave rainfall

  142.4mm   86.3mm   148.4mm   169.4mm

 

For more detailed information see the climate of Gungahlin

Gungahlin Weather Records:

Hottest temp:

40.1°C on 31 Jan 2009   Least rain in mth:  0.0mm in May 2005

Coldest temp:

-6.6°C on 2 Aug 2003   Most rain in mth  176.3mm in Feb 2002

Coldest day:

2.6°C on 12 June 2009   Wettest year: 1999 (776.0mm)

Warmest night:

22.3°C on 13 March 2006   Driest year: 2006 (366.8mm)

Strongest wind:

78.9km/h on 24 Aug 2003   Longest dry spell: 56 days (16 Apr - 10 Jun 2005)

Daily weather conditions at Gungahlin are available from the Data Archive

World Weather Records:

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Snowy Mountain Lake Levels

As at 29 July, 2010

 

Snow Information

The 2010 Australian ski season runs from Saturday, 12 June 2010 to Monday, 4 October 2010. 

Lake Eucumbene: 20.2% (20.4%)*

Lake Jindabyne: 61.3% (61.2%)

Tantangara Dam: 10.5% (11.7%)

Last weeks readings are in ( ).

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* Lake Eucumbene dropped to 10.1% of capacity in June 2007.  This was the lowest level since the lake was filled in 1959 (Previous low 18% in 1983).

 

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Photos from opening weekend of the 2010 ski season.

Snow Depths (as at 22 July 2010):

Spencers Creek (1,830m): 39.4cm

Deep Creek (1,620m): 39.7cm

3 Mile Dam (1,460m): 15.1cm

Max snow depths

2009

2008 2007

Spencers Creek

148.0cm

174.2cm

164.4cm

Deep Creek

68.9cm

129.5cm

87.9cm

3 Mile Dam

27.4cm

61.3cm

34.8cm

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Local Weather News

  2/7/2010 - Gungahlin records a cool, frosty start to winter 2010. Media release.


12/6/2010 - Early snow falls raise hopes of a bumper 2010 ski season.


13/4/2010 - Gungahlin recorded its first frost of 2010 when the temp dropped to 0.6°C at 6.38am on April 13.  See the proof!


10/3/2010 - Summer 2009/10 was very warm, but it wasn't our hottest!  See how the most recent summer compares to all others in the Gungahlin's statistical summer summary - all summers (1999 to 2010).


20/1/2010 - In 2009, temperatures in Gungahlin ranged from a low of -5.8°C to a high of 40.1°C See all the 2009 data.


1/12/2009 - Gungahlin records its hottest November on record.  See how November 2009 compared to other Novembers.  Read more...


1/09/2009 - See how winter 2009 compared to the other 10 winters recorded at the Weather Centre in the 1999 to 2009 Gungahlin Winter Statistical Summary.


12/6/2009 - Gungahlin shivers through its coldest day on record.  Read more...


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Winter morning - Lake Ginninderra, Belconnen (1 June 2010).

Thanks to website regular Lorraine Attard for sending in this great photo showing fog rising above Lake Ginninderra, Belconnen on the first morning of winter 2010.  Gungahlin recorded a mild start to winter with the temperature range on 1 June 2.4°C to 14.3°C.

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