Friday, 1 September 2023 - Seasonal Climate Summary for Australian Capital Territory - Product code IDCKGC25L0
Australian Capital Territory in winter 2023
Rainfall
- The territory experienced a dry winter with below average rainfall in all areas.
- June and July were the wettest and driest months in the territory, respectively.
Temperature
- Both maximum and minimum temperatures were above average during winter in the territory.
- Tuggeranong had both the highest winter mean daily maximum temperature on record and the highest winter mean temperature on record.
- Canberra Airport recorded its highest mean daily maximum temperature (14.5 °C) in July.
Canberra Airport
- Total rainfall for Canberra Airport was 71.0 mm, which is 55% of the long-term average at the current site of 128.8 mm.
- The mean daily maximum temperature for Canberra Airport was 14.4 °C, which is 1.0 °C above the long-term average at the current site of 13.4 °C.
- The warmest day was 19.4 °C on 3 June, and the coolest day was on 28 June when the temperature reached 7.7 °C.
- The mean daily minimum temperature for Canberra Airport was 1.2 °C, which is 0.5 °C above the long-term average at the current site of 0.7 °C.
- The coldest morning was -7.2 °C on 21 June, and the warmest morning was on 1 June when the minimum temperature was 9.7 °C.
Extremes Maps Records Summaries Important notes the top
Extremes in winter 2023 | |
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Hottest day |
19.4 °C at Canberra Airport on 3 Jun 19.4 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS on 3 Aug |
Warmest days on average | 14.6 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
Coolest days on average | 4.8 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
Coldest day | -1.5 °C at Mount Ginini AWS on 19 Jun |
Coldest night | -7.2 °C at Canberra Airport on 21 Jun |
Coolest nights on average | -0.6 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
Warmest nights on average | 1.3 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
Warmest night | 10.3 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS on 1 Jun |
Warmest on average overall | 7.9 °C at Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS |
Coolest on average overall | 2.1 °C at Mount Ginini AWS |
Wettest overall | 237.4 mm at Mount Ginini AWS |
Wettest day | 24.6 mm at Mount Ginini AWS on 9 Jul |
Strongest wind gust | 91 km/h at Mount Ginini AWS on 1 Jun |
Extremes Maps Records Summaries Important notes the top
Record highest winter mean daily maximum temperature | |||||
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New record (°C) |
Old record |
Years of record |
Average for winter |
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Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS | 14.6 | 13.8 | in 2019 | 27 | 13.2 |
Record highest winter mean temperature | |||||
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New record (°C) |
Old record |
Years of record |
Average for winter |
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Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS | 7.9 | 7.8 | in 2013 | 27 | 6.9 |
Extremes Maps Records Summaries Important notes the top
Summary statistics for winter 2023 | ||||||||||||
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Maximum temperatures (°C) |
Minimum temperatures (°C) |
Rainfall (millimetres) |
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Mean for winter 2023 |
Diff from average |
Highest for winter 2023 |
Mean for winter 2023 |
Diff from average |
Lowest for winter 2023 |
Total for winter 2023 |
Average for winter |
Rank of winter 2023 |
Fraction of winter average |
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Canberra Airport | 14.4 | +1.0 | 19.4 | 3 Jun | 1.2 | +0.5 | -7.2 | 21 Jun | 71.0 | 128.8 | low | 55% |
Mount Ginini AWS | 4.8 | +1.4 | 11.7 | 21 Aug | -0.6 | +1.3 | -6.5 | 20 Jun | 237.4 | 273.2 | average | 87% |
Tuggeranong (Isabella Plains) AWS | 14.6 | +1.4 | 19.4 | 3 Aug | 1.3 | +0.6 | -6.2 | 21 Jun | 38.0 | 139.6 | lowest | 27% |
Extremes Maps Records Summaries Important notes the top
Notes
The Seasonal climate summary, usually published in the first week of the following month, lists the main features of the weather in Australian Capital Territory using the most timely and accurate information available on the date of publication; it will generally not be updated.
This statement has been prepared based on information available at 10 am on Friday 1 September 2023. Some checks have been made on the data, but it is possible that results will change as new information becomes available.
In some situations, some or all of the rainfall is in the form of hail or snow. In these cases the totals given are for the water equivalent: the depth of liquid water that results from melting any frozen precipitation. There can be significant 'undercatch' of snow in strong winds, meaning the true precipitation can be higher than that reported.
Averages for individual sites are long-term means based on observations from
all available years of record, which vary widely from site to site.
They are not shown for sites with less than 10 years of record, as they cannot then be calculated reliably.
The median
is sometimes more representative than the
mean
of long-term average rain.
The Rank indicates how rainfall this time compares with the climate record for the site,
based on the
decile ranking
(very low rainfall is in decile 1, low in decile 2 or 3,
average in decile 4 to 7, high in decile 8 or 9
and very high is in decile 10).
The Fraction of average shows how much rain has fallen this time as a
percentage of the long-term mean.
Where temperature area averages are mentioned, they are derived from the ACORN-SAT dataset.
Information about Australian Indigenous seasonal calendars is available at the Indigenous Weather Knowledge website.
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