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NSW School-children say YES to sunshine

New South Wales: The Premier State, the state other states love to hate. Normally the object of insult and jealousy, this week NSW has been able to glory in its superiority - because of the weather.

When Victorian and Queenslander parents sent their children back to school on the 18th of April, New South Welshmen and women (and persons) decided to delay a week and a half. But was this difference simply organisational foolishness or laziness? The skies have declared a big fat NO.

Sydney has just had almost a week of maximum temperatures reaching at least 24 degrees, sitting nicely above the long-term average of 23.8. A 6-day run of such warmth hasn't happened for a whole month! Skies have been mostly sunny, with exceptional cloudscapes each day: wispy cirrus fibratus, mesmerising altocumulus undulatus, and even some early morning mammatus!

Children everywhere have been able to avoid the dingy classrooms of their local prisons (schools) and enjoy the sunny autumn weather. And all this because of an out-of-sync calendar.

Now that the holidays are at an end for these tiny humans, the weather is changing. Yesterday, showers and rain brought 5-15mm to the Riverina and kept the mercury relatively low. Even now, cloud remains over NSW, although there will still be sunny breaks and above-average-temperatures.

Sydney should reach 24 again today, as will Lismore. Wollongong, Newcastle and Merimbula will sit just a little lower at 23 degrees. A fierce frontal system looks to surge through the southern states from later on Tuesday and into Wednesday, potentially dropping maximum temperatures to the coldest so far this year.

Just in time for school.

- Weatherzone

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