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Speaker 1: One might say we're smack bang in the middle of

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Speaker 1: summer at the moment if one thinks that summer starts

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Speaker 1: on the first of December. But it's close enough to

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Speaker 1: being in the middle of summer, and we're heading for

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Speaker 1: thirty three degrees today and mostly sunny, which is absolutely pleasant.

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Speaker 1: This time last year, we're almost all died of heat exhaustion,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just wondering if this year is going to

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Speaker 1: remain a different sort of summer or should we be

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Speaker 1: careful what we wish for.

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Speaker 2: We might be one of those March April scorching kind

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Speaker 2: of wrap up.

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Speaker 1: We've taken it to the Bureau of Meteorology and Jess

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Speaker 1: Lingard's joining us. Morning Jess, Jess, Morning Jess. Are we

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Speaker 1: having a cool summer or is it just that I'm

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Speaker 1: still traumatized after what last summer was.

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Speaker 3: Like twet all though. Look, to be honest, what we've

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Speaker 3: got now is bang on average perth summer Like this

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Speaker 3: is what's a palmer summer is like looking at the

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Speaker 3: long term average, we are exactly zero points zero degrees

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Speaker 3: different from average. So look, we are doing wonderfully. This

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Speaker 3: is what it's supposed to be. Last year was just

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Speaker 3: an absolute travisy.

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Speaker 2: So what happened last year for anyone what causes extreme heat,

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Speaker 2: last year it was bizarre climate change.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean we could go that way definitely. But

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Speaker 3: so one of the features of WA summers is these

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Speaker 3: West coast trots and they form every sort of few days.

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Speaker 3: They form down the west coast. They bring nice warm

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Speaker 3: air down to us. We've got one right now. It's

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Speaker 3: why we're warming up sort of today and tomorrow, and

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Speaker 3: then they move inland, we get a nice cool change

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Speaker 3: and we get a couple of days of you know,

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Speaker 3: slightly cooler weather, then another one forms. Last year, these

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Speaker 3: were forming, they were sitting off the coast, they weren't moving.

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Speaker 3: They were staying stationary for sort of five six days

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Speaker 3: instead of maybe one or two. And it just meant

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Speaker 3: that all this warm air down from the Pilber, from

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Speaker 3: the Gascoyne was just building up down the west coast,

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Speaker 3: and we just had heat wave after heat wave, and

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Speaker 3: these troughs were sticking around and just not clearing through

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Speaker 3: this year. They're doing what they're supposed to do. They're forming,

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Speaker 3: they're hanging around for a day, and then they're moving

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Speaker 3: eastwards and we get a nice cool change. So this

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Speaker 3: is what we're supposed to be having.

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Speaker 1: We're loving them for it. Now, with your insight into

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Speaker 1: the future, February usually If that's the case, then my

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Speaker 1: memory says February is always sort of the hottest time

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Speaker 1: and that's when we might get a few forties. Are

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Speaker 1: there any forties on the horizon that you can see?

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Speaker 3: Look, I mean for the next week. No, we're going

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Speaker 3: to be hanging out in the you know, in the

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Speaker 3: low thirties, which is just perfect for me. That's probably

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Speaker 3: reaching my personal barriers. Yes, but February is Perth hottest month,

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Speaker 3: and as you know, the same for across the southwest

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Speaker 3: of WA. And looking at the sort of the climber

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Speaker 3: outlook for the next month, we are looking at maybe

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Speaker 3: in about and have Riadge summer or at least than

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Speaker 3: Averridge February. So look, I'm hoping that what we've got

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Speaker 3: at the moment just continues to make its way through

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Speaker 3: February and we're not hit with anything disgusting.

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Speaker 2: Jess, what about the A lot of people are going cheese.

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Speaker 2: Has been really windy, But are these usual summer breezes

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Speaker 2: we have because it has been pretty windy, particularly at night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it has been sort of over the last

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Speaker 3: week or so, we have seen a sort of quite

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Speaker 3: a bit of wind along the west coast, and well

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Speaker 3: that's just sort of basically a combo of a bit

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Speaker 3: of a sea breeze through the afternoons and then also

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Speaker 3: we've had a really strong sort of ridge of high

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Speaker 3: pressure to the south of the state and that creates

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Speaker 3: going to get all sciency here, we get a really

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Speaker 3: strong pressure gradient and that increases the wind speeds across

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Speaker 3: the west coast. Combine that with your sea breezes in

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Speaker 3: the afternoon means that it gets a bit blowy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Yess, whatever input you have into the weather,

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Speaker 1: thank you for it.

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Speaker 3: No, well, loving all my personal work.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we're sleeping through the night. It's fantastic. Jess

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Speaker 1: Lingard from the Bureau of Meteorology, with great use is

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Speaker 1: what it's meant to be.

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Speaker 3: No worries. That's for having me by the expert.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Jess has just gone through Christmas and all

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Speaker 2: of catchups and all that I reckon. There were none

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Speaker 2: there were any events she went to when people weren't

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Speaker 2: asking about.

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Speaker 1: The weather, no or blaming her for it.

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Speaker 2: Blaming him, Yeah, big time. It always happens