Cold and wet weather for Sydney, warm and stormy in Jyväskylä

The past few days have seen some heavy falls in Sydney. Temperatures have also dropped to levels more typical of winter.

After the month began with 24.2mm at the Airport last Sunday, Thursday followed it up with one of the highest daily totals for quite some time. A total of 55.2mm fell on June 5. This is the heaviest daily fall so far this year. Looking at BoM's 24 hours to 9am totals, you have to go back more than 6 months to November 16 when 80.4mm was recorded.

Most of the rain that has fallen in the past few days has occurred along the coast, and more specifically, in the Eastern Suburbs and south of the city in the Sutherland Shire. Across the days of June 4, 5 and 6, the Airport saw a total of 66.6mm. Observatory Hill saw 28.6mm, Terrey Hills on the north shore recorded 52.0mm while Penrith in the west saw only 12.0mm.

Temperatures have also been down on previous weeks. It only reached as high as 16.4C yesterday. That was the coldest day since May 3. This morning the temperature at the Airport dropped to 10.1C. This is the second time so far this year for that recording. That means 2014's run of not dropping below 10C at the Airport continues for now. This is now the record for latest date into a year for the first minimum below that mark.

Summer weather has returned to Jyväskylä. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday had daily maximums of 24.1C, 28.9C and 27.4C. It was quite humid on Wednesday and storms rolled through parts of Finland during the afternoon and evening. Thursday was a more settled and dry day, but humid and unsettled conditions returned yesterday afternoon.

Storm clouds east of Jyväskylä fom Harju Tower at approximately 3:30pm on June 6

The view to the south-east from Harju Tower at approximately 4pm on June 6

Despite the threat of rain, Jyväskylä city and Airport managed to avoid the heavier falls seen elsewhere in Central Finland. Only 1.1mm fell at Tikkakoski on Wednesday with a further 1.0mm yesterday. Storm cells moved north through the country on both days. As seen in the pictures, a few cells missed Jyväskylä only by 10km or so, either to the east or west of the city.