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Past Week’s Weather 5.7.09

June/July

2009-

Rain 9 am

Evap.

Soil @20cm

Temp.&(Moist)

Gust

Knots

Bright Sun

Hours

Cloud 3pm

Mon 29th

Nil

0.6 mm

15.6ºC (2)

24

7.3

Nil

Tues 30th

Nil

1.6 mm

15.6ºC (4)

9

7.0

3Ci

Wed 1st

Nil

2.4 mm

16.1ºC (4)

12

7.0

Nil

Thurs 2nd

Nil

1.2 mm

17.8ºC (3)

169

5.8

Nil

Fri 1st

Nil

2.6 mm

16.1ºC (5)

24

7.3

Nil

Sat 2nd

Nil

3.0 mm

15.6ºC (9}

25

7.3

Nil

Sun 3rd

Nil

2.0 mm

15.0ºC (9}

14

5.8

8Cc

 

The week’s wintry weather and strong winds were the result of an extensive high covering the whole of Australia and a 992hPa low in the Tasman Sea. The two systems interacted to bring strong Antarctic winds up the east coast and to our Ranges. On most days we had long hours of Bright Sunshine and good visibility. The only exception was on Thursday when strong winds polluted the atmosphere with a dust storm

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