No degree of doubt: deep chill of winter has arrived
BY JACQUELINE WILLIAMS
09 Jul, 2011 12:00 AM
Translation by Autumnson Blog
Canberrans woke to a thick fog yesterday morning after another overnight below minus 5 degrees.
堪培拉昨日上午醒時大霧，在另一次隔夜低於零下5度後。
From midnight to 10am yesterday, temperatures remained in the minuses, with the lowest recorded at 5am in Tuggeranong at an icy minus 5.4degrees.
從午夜到昨日上午10點，溫度保持在負數，最低記錄在上午5時於Tuggeranong的冰冷零下5.4度。
Cooma residents also shivered through a cold night the coldest July night on record at minus 10.1degrees.
庫瑪居民亦在寒夜發抖，是記錄上七月的最冷一晚在零下10.1度。
By noon the temperature was 4.1degrees in Canberra's north. In the south it was just 1.3 degrees.
The forecast maximum temperature of 7 degrees wasn't reached until after 1pm at the Canberra Airport.
The temperature in Tuggeranong didn't rise above the forecast maximum until 4pm.
The fifth cold front of the week is expected to pass through the capital tomorrow.
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Sean Carson said the chilly weather was due to a deep low to the south.
''That's just bringing up lots of cold fronts from the Antarctic region over south-eastern Australia,'' he said. ''Normally you just get one cold front move through, maybe two, but we've had five consecutive cold fronts move through in the space of a week.
''Each one has dropped maybe 20cm of snow.''
Massive dumps of natural snow have been recorded at the ski fields this week. Mr Carson said resort goers wouldn't have experienced such favourable snow conditions since the early 1990s.
More than 10cm of fresh snow is expected at ski resorts this weekend.
''We've had half a dozen nights now where we've got down to minus 5 [degrees] this winter,'' Mr Carson said. ''We're well and truly in the middle of winter now, there's no doubt about it.''
Cold temperatures will continue in Canberra this weekend and forecasters predict strong winds of up to 80km/h on Sunday. A low of minus 3degrees and a top of 12 degrees is expected today. Similar conditions are expected tomorrow.
''At this stage we've got freezing, frosty mornings every day next week,'' Mr Carson said.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/no-degree-of-doubt-deep-chill-of-winter-has-arrived/2221274.aspx
智利的寒流使夏季柑橘前景成疑
Cold snap in Chile puts summer citrus outlook in question
07/07/2011 8:30:15 AM
Garth Sears
在智利的一場寒流遺下夏季柑橘進口商不確定他們將在未來幾週引入什麼至各州。
David Mixon, chief marketing officer for Seald Sweet LLC, Vero Beach, Fla., said Chile’s citrus-growing areas had an unseasonable cold snap over the July Fourth weekend. Until the industry can measure the damage done to its crop, which can take a week or even 10 days, the forecast of exports to the U.S. is clouded.
Mixon said the temperatures recorded there indicate an “extremely high” likelihood of damage to the citrus, but “it’s hard to predict how the fruit will react, and there’s a lot of variables.”
Chile’s cold snap is just the latest weather hurdle for the industry. South Africa, which exported a record 1.5 million metric tons of citrus last season, dealt with a yearlong draught and hailstorms that will limit the nation’s citrus exports by 5% from last year’s record.
Mixon said Chile typically kicks off the summer citrus program in late May with its clementines. Then South Africa starts exporting citrus around the middle of June. Both countries’ seasons go through October. Peru — with fewer clementines and navels than those countries but more minneola tangelos — bolsters and diversifies the supply from the end of June through September.
Mixon said that while the industry expects less fruit out of South Africa, the fruit has had normal size and the quality has been “exceptional.” He said the external color and internal flavor were both strong and brix counts were 1-3 points higher than usual.
He said the prices of international citrus have been about average, with no anticipation for any major shifts, but the jury is still out on what Chile’s cold snap could mean to volumes and prices.
One fruit that probably won’t escape the Chile cold snap untouched is lemons. Mixon said he was definitely expecting smaller-than-normal volumes of lemons, and therefore higher prices, but even the extent of those changes are yet unknown.
As international production has ramped up, the domestically grown summer citrus supply is winding down.
Al Imbimbo, vice president of sales and marketing for Suntreat Packing & Shipping Co., Lindsay, Calif., said his company was selling its last load of California navels.
“I think there will be some people who will be shipping California navels through August,” he said, “but I have a feeling most will be shipped out sooner.”
He said his company had the opportunity to string out its last load, to try to catch a possible uptick in price as supply dwindles, but didn’t think the price would justify it. He said the quality of the fruit is good, and the sizes — of what they have left — were 72s, 56s, even some 88s.
Neil Galone, vice president of sales and marketing for Booth Ranches LLC, Orange Cove, Calif., said some major shippers will hold onto their navels as long as they can, but California is mostly done.
He said Booth starts its valencias in March or early April, before any domestic demand, to supply international interests. He said half of its valencia crop was harvested, and it has told its customers to expect them at least through August. He said the valencias have been mid-sized, peaking on 88s, with some 113s. He said the total estimate for California valencia production is 26 million boxes, which is close to average.
He said the average f.o.b.s for all grades and sizes are around $8.75, slightly stronger than last year. He said he expected the price to stay there.
http://www.thepacker.com/fruit-vegetable-news/crops-markets/Cold-snap-in-Chile-puts-summer-citrus-outlook-in-question-125108139.html
畸凍天氣緊咬巴西南部
Freak cold weather grips southern Brazil
(philstar.com)
Updated June 29, 2011 01:12 PM
RIO DE JANEIRO (Xinhua) – The southern parts of Brazil, a tropical country, have been stricken by cold snaps since Monday, driving down temperatures to record-low levels and bringing snow in some areas, a local weather service has reported.
里約熱內盧（新華社） - 熱帶國家巴西的南部地區自星期一已遭受寒流襲擊，拉低氣溫到歷史最低水平並在某些地區帶來積雪，一地區性氣象服務報告。
The weather monitoring department of Santa Catarina state said the temperature fell to 8.8 Celsius degrees below zero in the small town of Urupema on Tuesday, while in Cambara do Sul, in Rio Grande do Sul state, along the southern border, the temperature dropped to minus 6.2 degrees.
The three cities of the southern region on Tuesday also recorded record-low temperatures for the year, and the lowest temperature was monitored in Curitiba, capital of Parana state, where the temperature hovered around one degree above zero.
In Sao Paulo state, in the southeastern region, temperatures also fell to record-low levels: in Sao Paulo, the state capital, the mercury fell to 2.3 degrees, the lowest since 2003, and in Campos do Jordao, a mountainous town, the temperature dropped to 3.8 degrees below zero, the lowest since 1998.
Several towns of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina even had snow on Monday.
The weather service predicted that the cold weather would stay for the next few days, and there would be fresh snow in some areas.
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=701008&publicationSubCategoryId=200
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