Melbourne weather: Hotter than average summer despite plenty of cool days

Feeling confused about the weather in Melbourne this summer? You're not alone - it's been a strange one.

A summer storm rolls across the city on
Christmas Eve. Three days later
Melbourne sweated through its hottest
 day of the season. 

The city is on track to pass an entire summer without cracking 40 degrees, despite early predictions of a particularly hot and dry season.

Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Rod Dixon said Melbourne has experienced unusually cool weather, with multiple days where the mercury has stalled at 17 degrees.

But repeated spells of scorching weather have nonetheless led to a slightly hotter-than-average summer.

Read Alexandra Laskie’s in today’s Melbourne Age - "Melbourne weather: Hotter than average summer despite plenty of cool days.”

Melbourne weather: Victorians to roast through a Christmas heatwave

Get ready for a Christmas scorcher. 

Victoria has issued a health alert for the Christmas Day heatwave and a total fire ban will be in place from Christmas Eve.

Emergency and health officials are calling on Victorians to prepare for the hot and humid conditions, with five days of 30 degrees or more forecast from Saturday.

The Bureau of Meteorology has raised its forecast to a humid 33 degrees for Melbourne on Christmas Eve, with Christmas Day expected to be a sticky 35 degrees.

The moist heat will hamper those sleeping off the Christmas binge, with the weather bureau forecasting a hot, uncomfortable Christmas night in Melbourne.

Read Marika Dobbin Thomas’s story in the Melbourne Age -  “Melbourne weather: Victorians to roast through a Christmas heatwave.”

Heatwave set to scorch Victoria

Hot days ahead for northern Victoria.

A severe heatwave is set to scorch much of the state with no relief in sight until the middle of the month.

Northern Victoria will swelter through the week with temperatures tipped to reach almost 40 degrees in some areas.

Southern parts of the state are expected to escape the blistering heatwave, but temperatures will hover around the 30-degree mark for most of the week.

Read the Melbourne Age story - “Melbourne weather: heatwave set to scorch Victoria.”

(What do we do? Well, we can’t stop climate change now, it’s too late as any opportunity we had for mitigation is past and now we need to consider and apply any adaptation ideas we feel might work – Robert McLean.)