INN Weather – October 2022

SANDY HOSIER: Over to weather now and Jane, I can’t wait to frock up with you on our Melbourne Cup date, but of course it’s not all fun and games with the ongoing flood and climate crisis, so how will this year’s race be affected, and should we wear gumboots Jane?  

JANE BUNION: Yeah I don’t even know how that would work Sands, but looking forward to our girls day out on the track. But we do have to be mindful of our rapidly warming earth that’s creating the wet and cool conditions causing the floods in the lead up to the race. The typically dry racecourse conditions have gotten damper as a result, but this dampness is not as wet as it would have been had it been dry before the floods event, so when flooding of the racecourse was prevented by the floodwall, the wetness stayed away long enough for the dampness of the track to dry out, meaning conditions will be much the same as in other year for the start of the race. In other weather news, extreme conditions are likely to continue in other parts of the world. Hurricane Nicole has been declared a category 1 storm, but shouldn’t affect the Melbourne Cup being located off the coast of Florida in the United States… But bring a poncho just in case! 

And now for our exclusive 9-and-a-half day forecast, and you can see here that temperatures around the world are a little lower than we would expect at this time of the year, but our INN weather modelling kicks in around day 4, just here, correcting for C02 and people with gas stoves, so we can expect a return to the usual unbearable heat waves by the start of next week.