innocent bystander

Can someone tell me what the temperature is most days on the Sunshine Coast throughout the summer months?

biggy

I am on the Capricorn Coast...the hottest we have had this year was 43 degrees, but being on the coast there is usually a sea breeze.....I would say it averages out about 35 degress going down to 25 at night the humidity can get to you, but to be honest I have not found it unbearable, and although our rented place has air con in it we have never had to put it on....the fans have done just fine.....u get used to the heat, we have only been here for 8 months ....it went down to 23 last night and I was feelin it cold in the house

jad n rich

If you go to the weather charts, it will probably say something like top summer average is about 28/29.

Reality is you get a lot of days around 30, and some summers you get days of mid 30's. Freak summer last year was 42 one day but as I said freak!

We have Airconditioning and this year would have used it about 8 times, its been a mild summer tho. We notice a big diff when we go to Brisbane, seems much hotter simply because you are moving off the coastline and its breezes. Shortly we will move into weather which is constantly in the low to mid 20's, ideal considering thats winter.

ahoy

this is one of my biggest worries. i need to be able to afford to buy somewhere that is not cheap because its in the devil's tumble dryer. we are planning on qld south coast and seems like further north but near coast is cooler but cheaper than nearer brisbane. you would think it would swiftly get hotter as you head upwards. not true? where abouts are you?

mlbonner

I'm on Northside Brisbane, so fairly close to the sunshine coast, TBH the heat doesnt bother me, its more the humidity (the two don't go hand in hand either, Sydney today is 25C but apparently very humid) and this would be what I would look for as much as anything, somewhere with a breeze to help curve the humidity, rather than somewhere with a/c to cool you down.

mlbonner

Today is the last day of summer (officially) and looking at the charts is 28C and 60% humidity... pretty cool for a summers day in QLD

brisnick

it is only the last day of summer because the aussies don't like having things happen at 'strange'n times.

isn't it officially end of summer on the autumn equinox 21st/22nd march (forget which exactly)??

mlbonner

I know what you mean - It actually looks like its on the 20th March this year, seems as though it changes, which I didn't realise

http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/noticebo...1,6235&print=1

Other years;
Autumn Equinox (AEST):

2004 March 20, 4:51pm
2005 March 20, 10:36pm
2006 March 21, 4:28am
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/planeta.../fss/fss4.html

tinaj

This summer temperatures have been perfect between 26- 33c on the coast. Most days have been between 28-30 so easy to manage without air con.
Last summer was really hot it got up to 4o odd degrees and all you could do was lounge around.

Summer is not the best season here because it also rains a lot and I have also nearly started complaining about the grey mornings!! Spring, Winter and Autumn really are perfect here, low humidity and between 20 - 26c - awesome, clear blue skies every day and virtually no rain. Last winter it got to 19c for 1 day apart from that it was gorgeous.

The stats also state The Sunshine Coast has one of the highest sunshine amounts per day in the world - 7 hrs per day all year long - bliss!!