At least CNN have noticed

Deadly storms ravage Asia, killing over 700 with hundreds missing

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/30/asia/flooding-senyar-ditwah-indonesia-malaysia-thailand-intl-hnk 

And this after a staggering 1,739mm of rain fell in just 24 hours on Oct 26th from typhoon Bualoi,  the second-largest daily total ever  in the world

https://thred.com/change/worlds-second-heaviest-24-hour-rainfall-recorded-in-vietnams-hue/ 

And Typhoon Kalmaegi passed through just south of Hoi An, Vietnam, on the 6th Nov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Kalmaegi 

And then this dated 21st, 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq0q3e2j17o 

Not to mention typhoon Fung -Wang which ravaged the Philippines and Taiwan

They've been having a rough time in SE Asia

Been the main weather news story for the past week .....

https://weatherearthnews.blogspot.com/2025/11/24th-november-todays-news-death-toll.html  

https://weatherearthnews.blogspot.com/2025/11/27th-november-todays-news-deadly-se.html 

https://weatherearthnews.blogspot.com/2025/11/28th-november-todays-news-dozens-more.html 

That’s the first one she can recall getting. I could hear the thunder in the background whilst on the phone.

https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/2002744237079904754 

For reference the “normal” value for this time of year is a max of -17°C.

White Christmas above 700 metres in Tasmania 

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/white-christmas-in-tasmania-as-summer-snowfalls-continue/1891106 

Snow showers on Mt Wellington behind Hobart. Only 17c in Melbourne and currently 18c and a strong southerly in Sydney but was nice / sunny amd 24c earlier.

Christmas temperature record broken as heat reaches nearly 20°C 

I stayed in Seyðisfjörður years ago and kept in touch for many years with the English teacher and his family.

I can remember someone in Reykjavík saying these synoptic situations led to winter high temps, not so much in Reykjavik but in the mountainous part valleys.  A Foehn effect. But it has been chilly in the north of the island recently.

In follow up to this post from a few days ago. Unfortunately a serious fire situation is developing across Victoria at the moment. Strong winds, extreme heat had led to catastrophic fire danger in areas. Currently there are 7 emergency warnings in place as at 3:30pm EDST. 

Of interest an unusually intense inversion developed across parts of Melbourne this morning. At 2:30am under clear skies and an inversion the temperature was 18.5c. By 4.03am a high altitude thunderstorm had broken the inversion with gusty winds and the temperature jumped to 36.2c. The storm cleared through and clear skies and an inversion redeveloped with temperatures back down to 17.9c by 5:24am. 

Caused by a combination of special pink lighting to help keep the Birmingham City FC football pitch healthy coupled with the reflective capacity of the snow-laden sky and mist

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j30kx1vk3o 

Thankfully can report all our family and friends are ok from what we've heard, very sad to see another devastating day for the wildlife and property, so far haven't heard of any human lives lost, although 3 missing. Our VIC alert app was pretty much pinging the whole night and I only have two alert areas set each with a 10 or 20k radius.

My sister in law left her property in Mount Macedon last night, with the air thick with smoke, mostly down to the fact that there were so many trees coming down locally as opposed to any local fires, but it's a heavily wooded mountain and the fires are so quick to spread once they start. Other friends in the Yarra Valley winery area were awake from 2am due to the huge amount of dry lightning strikes in the area.

As much as any fire is dangerous and size is obviously not the be all of it, the two major fires currently still burning are 145 and 100 thousand hectares in size respectively... the largest has a 180km edge and obviously when the change of wind direction hits that all sweeps forward towards anything in its way.

https://www.oreanda-news.com/en/gosudarstvo/russians-were-warned-about-abnormal-snowfall/article1582926/ 

https://www.ventusky.com/snow-cover-map/total#p=50.5;16.0;4 

Now is the time for a good, deep rooted easterly to become established! 

That's quite a goodly amount of snow in Europe and quite the throwback for me to see the town I lived in, in Germany, 1975-1980 has 19cm of snow now.

Thousands of tourists stranded in Lapland as cold grounds flights

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74vnxlvl40o 

Fairbanks has had some cold recently..2nd longest consecutive number of days with below zero farenheit since 1904

Looking at The Age website I use, which is behind a paywall, they received 53mm in 30 mins and over 150-180mm in 5 hours. What was more extraordinary was that 30km down the road had about 20mm, Melbourne about an hour's drive away had 0mm.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTUEEPtEk-V/?igsh=cnE1cTQ2eHVuZmQz