[Photos] From heat wave to tropical storms...

[moonvoice]

So we've just come to the end of a fairly intense heatwave.
In Ellenbrook, because we don't get the seabreeze, and heat swelters against the Darling Scarp, it's always about 2-4C more than it is in the Perth metro area.
So we've mostly been dealing with average temps of 41C for four days in a row. (A range of about 105-110F for USians).
Complete with high humidity.
Last night, the weather broke down as a degrading tropical cyclone system approached.
And now today, we have rain.

But here were the clouds from last night's sunset, which was glorious.




Earlier in the afternoon:



The beginning of the sunset:





The light changes (facing West here):



Facing North-West:



Facing North-North-West (and with the tops of houses for scale):



Facing South-East:



Directly above:



This section had a really interesting bit of mammatus:



So I took a close up:



Towards the end of the sunset:



And so night begins to fall:



Goodnight:

Comments

[silverjackal]

That is an enormous temperature shift! We get them here too, but as a natural part of winter warming patterns. (It's called a "Chinook" and you can literally see it evaporating snow if the shift is radical enough.) I'm guessing such a tremendous change is not part of the normal climate regime where you are. :(

[moonvoice]

Yeah, *definitely* not normal here. I mean tropical storms happen, but normally they don't cause such a break in the weather. All this week, the mercury isn't rising above 34C, with temps in the high 20s/low 30s, and that's really unusual for a Perth summer. It's great for my seasonal affective disorder, but it's really bizarre otherwise.

And the Chinook pattern sounds amazing. :D