Yes its cold up here .........

Dunns Hill at 15:00 EST
Temperature 1.7c Feels like -3.9c Rel. Humidity 99%
Wind Direction
Wind Speed
Gusts
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20km/h11knots
28km/h15knots

Are you still comming to Melbourne ? Patty lol

Cyclone of the deep sits off Sydney

This scientific chart shows the deep blue pools sitting off the coast of NSW.

The marine equivalent of a cyclone is sitting off Sydney's coast, causing a massive whirlpool which is turning the ocean green and spewing chilly water towards beaches.

A 200 kilometre-wide cyclonic eddy has pulled the sea's surface down by 70 centimetres and sucked cold deep ocean water onto Australia's eastern continental shelf.

The whirlpool is 1000 metres deep, reaching the ocean floor, CSIRO oceanographers say.

The centre is 100 kilometres off the coast and could stay there for several months.

Satellites can measure the drop in ocean surface caused by the eddy's pull, clearly showing how it is pushing aside the powerful East Australian Current running off our coast.

Another eddy of similar proportions is sitting further off the coast.

The eddies were like underwater cyclones, and the latitude of the coast near Sydney put it right in the marine cyclone belt, CSIRO oceanographer Dr David Griffin said.

"This eddy is a particularly strong one - it's caused cold water to slop up onto the continental shelf and in places that water's available to come to the surface," he said.

"It's not happening right now off Sydney, but earlier this summer people will recall very cold beach temperatures - that was associated with the early phase of this eddy.

"It doesn't seem to be impacting beach temperatures at the moment, but that doesn't mean it won't happen again."

A run of warm water temperatures last September was due to an eddy spinning the other way, Dr Griffin said.
He said the current cyclonic eddy could chill water at the edge of the continental shelf from 18 degrees to 14 degrees.

"It has a big impact on ocean ecology - the cold water coming up has a lot of nutrients and when that's combined with sun, the phytoplankton grows like crazy," he said.

"That's why the water goes green, you can see that from a boat."

Too hot!

Beautiful blue skies, not a cloud in sight, but hot! Hot! Hot! Mustn't complain really, my mum had 42c in Rockhampton yesterday. Now THAT"S hot!

Hold on

CYCLONE PROBABILITY
The monsoon trough has become very active to the north of Australia, and there are now two tropical lows that have at least some potential to develop into tropical cyclones over the weekend. One is located over the Coral Sea approximately 500 km to the northeast of Townsville and the other lies across the northeast corner of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory low has the most potential to be declared a cyclone on the weekend and because of its proximity to Darwin presents a significant threat if it further intensifies. The Queensland low is slow moving and this too may reach cyclone strength on the weekend.