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Friday 7
January 2000
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Today's
weather extremes
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Near
record-length heatwave in Perth |
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Highest rainfall, 24
hours to 9am
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- 74.4 Charters Towers Qld
74.0 Builyan Qld
70.0 Gilbert River Gilberton Qld
67.4 Dunollie Qld
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Perth
today came to the end of one of its longest heatwaves on record. The
city's weather station has recorded a top temperature of over 32° for each
of the 15 days from 24 December up to today. The maximum on Saturday 8 January
of 30.6 brought that run to an end. The record is 16 consecutive days in
February 1996. The hot weather began on 17 December, and since then only
2 days have had maxima below 32 -- 20 and 23 December. The thermometer exceeded
35° on 13 occasions, and the highest readings were 39.6 on 22 December and
39.3 on 27 December. |
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Highest & Lowest
Temps
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| Maximum |
Minimum |
| 39.5
Nyang WA |
30.0
Barrow Is AP |
| 8.0
Mt Wellington Tas |
-2.7
Charlotte Pass NSW |
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Greatest variations from
normal
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| Maximum |
Minimum |
+5.5
31.5 Pemberton WA |
+3.9
15.9 Bridgetown WA |
-8.0
12.8 Thredbo Village NSW |
-9.5
4.1 Rutherglen Vic |
| Other
extreme readings |
Flood
peaks:
South Esk at Perth Tas
about 5.5m around 5am with minor flooding
South Esk at Longford Tas
2.65m at 1.15pm with minor flooding |
| Records
set this day |
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as
new and corrected information becomes available, with updates underlined