Looking forward to those aircon bills!
Autumn is set to start in less than two weeks and we’re ready for some cooler temperatures.
But just when we thought we could swap our sunscreen for light cardigans, the Bureau of Meteorology released their climate outlook for the 2019 March to May period.
And friends, it’s not what we hoped.
Instead of mild evening breezes it looks like we’ll be getting more heat than we usually see at this time of year.
Yep, the sticky nights and high aircon bills are set to continue.
Here’s the fancy looking map for you:
That’s a lot of red.
Basically the graph shows that if you live in Mainland Australia there’s an 80 percent chance you’ll experience autumn temperatures that are significantly warmer than the average.
We can hear you asking, “but what is the average?”
The average daily maximum temperature for March sits at around the mid 20s for all major cities.
In the Sydney and the Central Coast region, it’s around 24.8 degrees.
In May, 19.5 degrees is the average – meaning we can expect days that should be 19 degrees to be sitting at 25 degrees.
The weather will also be dryer than usual, which is bad news for rural areas and farmers.
NSW is familiar with these kind of conditions.
Last year NSW had their second-warmest autumn on record. But something tells us 2019 might just steal that title.
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Images: Bureau of Meteorology/ Getty
Written by Krishinda Merhi and Kate Stevens
