The city is muggy, muggy like Cairns on a Sunday night
If you felt your home was as muggy as a tropical holiday resort in north Queensland over the weekend, you’re right: Sydney recorded Saturday and Sunday humidity temperatures as high as Cairns.
The measurement used to record the humidity, the dew point temperature, was between 22 and 25 degrees on Sunday. The humidity in Cairns was between 24 and 25 degrees yesterday.
Bondi Beach was busy for the last weekend of the school holidays.Credit:Edwina cucumbers
That’s why we’re all getting so hot, said Jonathan How of the Bureau of Meteorology.
“The higher the dew point, the more moisture and humidity the air contains,” he said. “It means it’s harder for people to cool down.
“Overnight the minimum temperature was 22 degrees, but the dew point temperature stayed in the low 20s through the night,” How said.
At 8pm on Sunday thermometers were reading 26 degrees in Sydney but a very high dew point temperature made the air appear like 30 degrees.
“And the felt temperature overnight was about 25,” How said.
The above-average humidity is primarily due to a slow-moving surface trough over NSW, pulling significant amounts of tropical moisture down from Queensland, generating rain across the state.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/found-it-hard-to-sleep-sydney-was-as-humid-as-cairns-on-sunday-night-20230130-p5cgdj.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_nsw The city is muggy, muggy like Cairns on a Sunday night
