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Monday 14 February 2000 |
Today's weather extremes |
Flooding
continues in the Centre Monsoonal activity continues across the nation's north Cold weather continues |
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Highest rainfall, 24 hours to 9am |
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117.4
Wycliffe Well Tanami NT 100.6 Winton PO Qld 96.0 Tewantin RSL Qld 92.6 Eumindi Qld |
Flooding
and impassably boggy roads continue to halt transport across a vast area
of northern SA and southern NT as patchy heavy showers continue.
In what the NT Department of Transport has described as the worst Central
Australian floods since 1988, the main north/south Stuart Highway remains
blocked by the flooded Finke and Palmer Rivers south of Alice Springs,
both flowing about 2km wide. Hundreds of travellers have been forced to
wait out the floods at tiny settlements and roadhouses, with 125 reported
stranded at Erldunda Roadhouse, 200km south of the Alice. There are large
build-ups of waiting traffic at Marla, Coober Pedy, Uluru and Alice Springs.
Torrential rain associated with the monsoon trough again fell across southern NT and parts of Qld today. In the Territory, Tennant Creek Airport received 90mm in 3 hours to 6am, 70.4 of this falling in one hour to 5.30am. Shops in the town's main street were flooded when drainage failed to cope. Ali Curang, 150km south, reported 91mm in 12 hours to 9am, while nearby Wycliffe Well recorded 117.4 for the 24 hours to 9am. In western Qld, evening thunderstorms again produced some heavy falls, while early morning thunderstorms gave many gaugings of 20 to 50mm in SE Qld.
The NSW Blue Mountains town of Katoomba also shivered yesterday and today as a fog and drizzle-laden southeasterly kept maxima close to the record low daytime temperature for February. The mercury only rose to 11.4 yesterday and 11.2 today. The lowest February maximum in the computer record which goes back to 1957 is 11.0 in 1966. |
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Highest & Lowest Temps |
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Maximum | Minimum | |
39.6
Gascoyne Jn WA 39.6 Eneabba PO WA |
28.0 Barrow Is AP WA | |
11.0 Crackenback NSW | 0.0
Crackenback NSW 0.0 Lake St Clair Tas |
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Greatest variations from normal |
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Maximum | Minimum | |
+8.8 32.2 Kingscote SA |
+4.1 26.1 Hugnenden Qld |
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-14.5 20.2 Cunnamulla Qld -13.7 18.9 Mitchell Qld -13.5 19.7 Surat Qld |
-10.2 7.0 Narrandera Council NSW -9.7 9.4 Arkaroola SA -7.7 8.5 Wagga AP NSW |
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Other extreme readings | ||
Rainfall: Black Point NT: 63mm in 6hrs to 9pm Blackall Qld: 39mm in 6hrs to 9pm Camooweal Qld: 30mm in 1hr to 7.30pm Winton Qld: 51mm in 6hrs to 9pm Longreach Qld: 49mm in 3hrs to midnight, 35 falling after 11pm Tewantin Qld: 50mm in 6hrs to 6am |
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Records set this day | ||
Arkaroola SA: Coldest February minimum temperature in 19 years record, 9.4 beating the previous record of 9.5 |
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