Which country's climate do you prefer: Australia or the United States?

[Nikau Palm]

Convective outlook from the SPC here, severe thunderstorms/tornado risk in the current outlook.
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/

[chiluvr1228]

I know very little about Australia's weather other than when they are the news due to either serious fires or flooding. I would think it strange coming from the US to live somewhere where winter is in June and summer is in January.

[simonusa3]

Originally Posted by WesterlyWX

Okay, they're well known in Florida. How about at more temperate latitudes such as Tennessee and Kentucky (Victoria/Riverina latitude equivalents)- are winter squall lines common there as well?

AUS is the opposite in that our more temperate latitudes get frequent winter storms, but they are rare once you reach central NSW and virtually unheard-of in northern NSW, let alone QLD. They are a colder climate feature here.

While we can (or occasion) see winter storms in subtropical latitudes, they are fairly uncommon in the subtropics (Florida) and the small tropical area (south Florida), just like in QLD which is at similar latitude. This also shows in monthly precip values in places like central and south Florida. There is often drought at the end of the dry season in south Florida/central Florida, so obviously there could no be many storms of any type. Don't forget, our tropical/subtropical zone is much smaller. Darwin is at 12 latitude...Key West, FL is at 24 latitude.


As far as there being severe storms in winter in places like Tennessee and Kentucky it does happen occasionally, and is a part of the winter climate of places in the mid/south - lower north.

One of the saddest I can remember was the Tornado outbreak of January 17–18, 1999...the second of three major tornado outbreaks in January 1999. A tornado developed east of Bemis, TN at 6:25 pm as the first tornado dissipated, moving directly through Bemis and causing F4 damage. The tornado crossed into the southeastern part of Jackson, TN...causing additional F4 damage in residential areas. Over 200 homes and numerous businesses were destroyed or flattened and hundreds of others were damaged. Some of the demolished buildings include portions of a shopping center, the athletic fields of a high school, a school bus garage, half of an apartment building and a funeral home. Six people were killed and 106 were injured by this tornado.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornad...%80%9318,_1999


One of the biggest reasons that there really is no portion of the year that is "safe" from severe weather in the southern /south central USA is that cold continental air with temps of maybe 5 C can plow into hot, moist tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean with temps of 27 C when conditions are right.

Trust me mate...be happy you live in a place the weather is not so volatile.

[Nikau Palm]

I've not heard of anyone in Australia having a storm shelter, you don't need them. Storm shelters are quite common across those parts of USA which are prone to severe thunderstorms. I recall even seeing tornado shelters at freeway public rest areas.

I see SPC have upgraded severe risk for the SE, they mention a few strong torndoes are possible day 2 in the latest outlook.

[Nikau Palm]

Next couple of days will see severe thunderstorms affect east Texas/Arkansas moving to the SE states, large hail, damaging wind gusts and a tornado risk with some of the storms.

[simonusa3]

Originally Posted by Nikau Palm

Next couple of days will see severe thunderstorms affect east Texas/Arkansas moving to the SE states, large hail, damaging wind gusts and a tornado risk with some of the storms.

They had a fairly bad tornado in Perry (northern Florida) a few days ago. Some bad scenes coming from there now:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video...74d_video.html

[Nikau Palm]

Sub tropical Australia is stable through the Winter months while sub tropical USA can have the big storm dynamics with supercell thunderstorm development.

[greysrigging]

Originally Posted by Nikau Palm

Sub tropical Australia is stable through the Winter months while sub tropical USA can have the big storm dynamics with supercell thunderstorm development.

Sub tropical south east Queensland ( and north east NSW ) is the supercell capital of AU in Spring and Summer.
Often severe hailstorms and sometimes tornados...

https://www.news.com.au/technology/e...4f26ee17ecaf3f

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/...ng-day/1703074

[WesterlyWX]

Originally Posted by Nikau Palm

Sub tropical Australia is stable through the Winter months while sub tropical USA can have the big storm dynamics with supercell thunderstorm development.

Temperate Australia on the other hand, is far from 'stable' in the winter (referring to atmospheric instability, NOT variation of temps). Constant low pressure systems off the Southern Ocean, whereas the US is more so in a 'stuck' high pressure pattern.