Dry in Jyväskylä, wet in Sydney

Dry weather has continued in Jyväskylä during the last few days. Temperatures haven't been quite as high as early last week, but March has still seen an above average start to the month. The sun was out for most of yesterday as it reached 2.8C.

I said more than a week ago that the ice thickness has been decreasing, but as I found out yesterday, the ice on Jyväskylä's Jyväsjärvi is still thick enough to walk on.

Ice on Jyväsjärvi on March 1

Testing out the ice

Interesting patterns from old footprints

In Sydney it has been a wet weekend. Sydney Airport saw one of the lowest 3 day totals in the Sydney region. Since Friday 12.6mm has fallen there. Elsewhere in Sydney, Observatory Hill has seen 21.6mm since Friday while Bankstown Airport and Penrith saw greater 3 day totals of 39.6mm and 35.4mm respectively.

On the Central Coast north of Sydney there was flash flooding in localities around Lake Macquarie on Friday morning. The weather station at Cooranbong just west of the Pacific Motorway recorded a staggering 222.2mm throughout the day; 206.2mm of that fell in the 9 hours between midnight and 9am.