Sydney and Jyväskylä returned to fairly normal weather yesterday and today after a wild weekend in both locations. Over the weekend and continuing on Monday, winds from the storm known as 'Eino' howled in Jyväskylä and other parts of Finland, while heavy rain continued in Sydney.
On Monday the northern Sydney suburb of Hornsby experienced a small tornado. Roofing from a local shopping centre was torn off, branches were ripped from trees and a small portable office building was blown over as powerful localised gusts associated with the tornado moved through the area.
Rain over the 5 day period totalled 119.6mm at Sydney Airport pushing the monthly total so far to 158.8mm. Observatory Hill recorded 92.8mm pushing its total to 171.6mm. Temperatures were cool over the weekend also. Sunday was the lowest maximum for the month so far at 18.2C. It only reached 18.8C on Monday also. Yesterday and today were much nicer with temperatures reaching 24.1C and 26.7C.
That familiar autumn rain and cloud arrived back in Jyväskylä early yesterday morning. Mist and rain fell continuously over a period of 27hrs, but it was fairly light with only 9.1mm being recorded throughout that time. Today has been much clearer though.
Temperatures were above zero again. It actually pushed above 5C yesterday evening and held there until just after midnight. Including today, that makes a run of 6 consecutive calendar days with the maximum above 5C. This is the latest time in the year for that to occur in the 2008 to 2013 period. The warm November of 2011 was responsible for the previous record, with 6 consecutive days above 5C up to and including November 8. Other years experienced this final occurrence in October.
Snow is forecast to fall tomorrow afternoon as temperatures drop leading in to the weekend.
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