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Saturday 15 January 2000 |
Temperature
extremes across southern Australia Severe storm at Yulara NT ![]() |
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Highest rainfall, 24 hours to 9am |
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140.0
Deleta Station Laverton WA 133.0 Horn Is Qld 124.2 Channel Point NT 118.0 Monte Vista Ravensthorpe WA Other high falls in WA: |
Heatwave
conditions continued in southern SA today for the sixth day in a
row. A cool change which cooled Victoria and Tasmania failed to reach all
but SA's southeast. A small bushfire was reported at Morphett Vale, an Adelaide
suburb, while heat-related problems caused power blackouts across the
city's northern suburbs for up to two hours. The large fire in Hambidge
Conservation Area on the Eyre Peninsula is under control and being waterbombed
by aircraft, and most national parks were closed because of fire danger
today. Press reports indicate that more than 18 million stubbies of beer
have been sold during the heatwave, with some hotels almost drunk dry.
It was a different picture in southwestern WA, where maximum temperatures today barely made it into the 20s, some 8 to 13° below average. The state's south is still under the influence of the cold airmass that swept through yesterday. A thunderstorm related to the system that gave violent storms to WA yesterday produced high wind gusts at Yulara in southwestern NT today. A gust of 126km/h was measured as the storm passed through around 4.30pm. 10mm fell from the storm. Trees were felled, the runway covered with sand, and parked aircraft and power and security systems damaged in the storm. |
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Highest & Lowest Temps |
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Maximum | Minimum | |
41.8 Mt Dare SA | 28.8 Curtin Springs NT | |
15.6 Mt Wellington Tas | 6.4 Charlotte Pass NSW | |
Greatest variations from normal |
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Maximum | Minimum | |
+11.0 39.8 Whyalla Town SA |
+9.3 22.2 Keith SA |
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-11.5 19.4 Narrogin PO WA |
-6.5 15.1 Charleville AP Qld -6.5 13.8 Tambo Qld |
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Other extreme readings | ||
Rainfall: Badgingarra WA 12.6mm in 10mins to 5.48pm Balladonia WA 46mm in 6hrs to 3am Dum-In-Mirrie NT 60mm in 6hrs to 9am Pirlangimpi NT 52mm in 6hrs to 3am Channel Point NT 117mm in 6hrs to 9am |
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Records set this day | ||
Balladonia
WA: Heaviest 24-hour rainfall on record for any month, 80.6mm breaking
the previous record of 77.5 in 89 years record.
There are likely to be further records broken in southern WA by this rain event. |
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