Sydney has just witnessed its second wettest winter on record. The rain surplus for the country has mounted to 82% above the winter average.
Though spring has sprung across the nation, however, it has arrived with a prolonged period of wet and moderately mild winter for Australia.
Winter day-to-day rainfall records have fallen in many areas, including Campbelltown in Sydney's south-west, where 154 mm of showers fell in one of a series of east coast lows, to batter the eastern seaboard throughout the season.
For Sydney's Observatory Hill, the winter was the wettest since 2007. The country has recorded five days of at least 50 mm of showers, which is the third most on record, and in fact five times the usual average of one such day.
While Friday may once again witness just another soaking day to get spring in Sydney off to a wet start. Weatherman predicts at least 30-40 mm of rain with another 6-15 mm on Saturday.
Asfor now, it was the third warmest winter for Sydney on record for minimum temperatures, with the average of about 1.4 degrees above normal. Only the winters of 1988 and 2013 were warmer for overnight temperatures in 157 years of records.
Moreover for daytime temperatures, Harbour City observed it’s seventh warmest on record, with average of about 1.8 degrees above a typical winter.
The night time temperatures were in fact somewhat mild, adding to that unusually warm sea-surface temperature to continue with moderate conditions over the coastal areas.
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