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The data for August at my house in Victoria.

The highest temperature occurred on August 12 with 34.0 degrees.
The lowest temperature occurred on August 24 with 8.5 degrees.
The average temperature for the month was 18.4, the normal is 17.6.
The total precipitation for the month was 4.9 mm, the normal amount is 15.8 mm.
There were 3 days with precipitation, the normal is 5.
The most precipitation occurred on August 07 with 3.6 mm.
The highest wind speed occurred on August 07 with 25 kmh.
The windiest day was August 22.
The amount of solar power generated was 933.5 kwh.
The most solar power was 37.9 kwh generated on August 08.
The least solar power was 11.1 kwh generated on August 16.
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Previous records based on data from the U Vic weather station 1993 - 2020.
The record high temperature occurred on August 15 2010 with 34.5 degrees.
The record low temperature occurred on August 31 2008 with 7.2 degrees.
The warmest August occurred in 1997 with a mean temperature of 18.8 degrees.
The coldest August occurred in 1995 with a mean temperature of 16.4 degrees.
August 1998 had the least precipitation with 0.0 mm.
August 2013 had the most precipitation with 62.0 mm.
August 1998 had the fewest days of precipitation with 0.
August 1995 had the most days of precipitation with 12.

Readings from the Pittsburgh Int’l. Airport
September 1-10, 2021

Daily Highs:
68
75
72
77
73
78
80
72
73
72
Average high for this period:
77
Normal average high for this period:
79
Record high for this period occurred in 1881:
102

Daily Lows:
65
52
49
59
64
57
55
64
56
53
Average low for this period:
57
Normal average low for this period:
58
Record low for this period occurred in 1986:
37

We had 37.8 mm of rain in the past 24 hours. However, three places on B.C.'s Lower Mainland made it into the top five places for precipitation during the last 24 hours in the world!

Wow!

The weather was interesting here in Kent yesterday; not nearly as much rain as up in Vancouver, but it got very windy. The lights just flickered here, but there are still widespread power outages.

The temperature climbed as the front approached. At Noon the temperature was 14.6 C then it started going up. By the time the front came through at 10:19 PM the temperature had climbed to 21.4 C, then rapidly dropped to 16.0 C after the front passed.

There were strong winds and heavy rain (at least heavy for the Seattle area) as the front passed. 8.38 MM yesterday and 12.70 mm so far today.

The above data is from my personal weather station here in Kent, not the official data for Seattle.

Readings from the Pittsburgh Int’l. Airport
September 11-20, 2021

Daily Highs:
76
82
79
84
75
80
83
85
82
84
Average high for this period:
81
Normal average high for this period:
75
Record high for this period occurred in 1952:
96

Daily Lows:
51
66
68
65
70
59
64
64
63
59
Average low for this period:
63
Normal average low for this period:
55
Record low for this period occurred in 1959:
31

Something to look forward to Downunder.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/features/yes ... -it-worse/

(from - https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans ... e-change/? )

Oh don't worry. Scottie from Marketing is on top of it. Some years are dry, some aren't.

Tornado tears through regional NSW, injuring three people, damaging properties near Bathurst.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-30/ ... 100504728?

Not something we see every day.

Wow!!! I'm glad no-one died.

We had a thunderstorm!!! Not much rain to speak of. Lightning hit a tree a mile from me and caused a small fire, quickly extinguished as the Fire station is just down the block. Thunder set off the car alarms. All that commotion and my rain gauge doesn't really register anything. Humph!
(Hope it didn't take too much water for the fire.)

Readings from the Pittsburgh Int’l. Airport
September 21-30, 2021


Daily Highs:
76
82
60
69
70
71
78
74
70
68
Average high for this period:
72
Normal average high for this period:
71
Record high for this period occurred in 1881 and1895:
94


Daily Lows:
66
65
53
50
47
48
55
64
50
45
Average low for this period:
54
Normal average low for this period:
51
Record low for this period occurred in 1962 and 1974:
33

We've just had a couple of days of beautiful weather. They were like early summer - warm, slight breeze, and still pleasant in the shade. I took this yesterday. Crepuscular rays escaping the mid afternoon 'brew-up' above the juneberry bush with the towering hollyhock stems rising high.

Readings from the Pittsburgh Int’l. Airport
October 1-10, 2021

Daily Highs:
66
74
70
76
78
79
80
76
69
76
Average high for this period:
74
Normal average high for this period:
67
Record high for this period occurred in 1879 and 1884:
91

Daily Lows:
42
43
60
64
56
61
62
62
63
58
Average low for this period:
57
Normal average low for this period:
47
Record low for this period occurred in 1964 and 1965:
27

At Mackay (-20.557837989212825, 149.1228079305161) Queensland yesterday they had the largest hailstones recorded in Australia. 16cm dia, previous was 14cm.



Not bad for Spring.

You'd know that one had hit you!!!

To my untutored eye that looks like lots of 'normal sized' hailstones frozen together rather than having a single core.

Wow!!! That's big!!! (and yes, those really large hailstones are conglomerations of many smaller ones.)