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Tuesday 14 March 2000 |
Today's weather extremes |
Ex
TC Steve completes the loop in style Heavy rain in Newcastle NSW storm |
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Highest rainfall, 24 hours to 9am |
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56.0
Coconut Is Qld 51.0 Channel Point NT 49.0 Kununurra AP WA 49.0 Tindal NT |
Former
Tropical Cyclone Steve, which formed off Cairns in the early hours
of Sunday 27 February, went out with a bang today after completing a near
circuit of the continent. For a fortnight, the cyclone tracked across northern
Australia and around WA's northwest coast, bringing flooding across the
whole Australian tropics, before taking a shortcut across central southern
WA last Friday and entering the Great Australian Bight on Saturday evening,
still packing a punch with galeforce winds, torrential rain, and a central
pressure of 993hPa. On Sunday and Monday, the ex TC maintained intensity
while moving southeast, picked up a passing Southern Ocean trough last night,
and surfed under Tasmania this morning bring brief storm force winds
as its associated front crossed the island. The AWS on the summit of Mt
Wellington recorded a peak gust of 133km/h at 5am, with a 10 minute
average windspeed of 98km/h. At Maatsuyker Island, off Tasmania's
south coast, the barometer rose 11.1hPa between 6am and noon, an unusually
large rise for this time of year.
A thunderstorm which moved NE with a cool change across the lower Hunter Valley, NSW, this evening dropped 49mm on the Newcastle suburb of Rankin Park in less than one hour. Newcastle's Nobbys Signal Station recorded 19mm in about the same time. The storm continued northeast between Dungog and Bulahdelah, with radar images showing it maintaining rainfall rates above 40mm/hour for over an hour. |
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Highest & Lowest Temps |
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Maximum | Minimum | |
39.4 Birdsville Qld | 27.4 Onslow WA | |
10.7 Mt Read Tas | 3.5 Charlotte Pass NSW | |
Greatest variations from normal |
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Maximum | Minimum | |
+7.9 32.6 Newcastle Nobbys NSW |
+10.0 18.5 Tumbarumba NSW |
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-8.1 14.9 Omeo Vic |
-7.6 4.2 Ellinbank Res Inst Vic |
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Other extreme readings | ||
Rainfall: Wyndham PO WA: 45mm in 6h to midnight Broome AP WA: 27mm in 3h to 9pm Victoria River Downs NT: 38mm in 6h to 9pm Coconut Is Qld: 45mm in 6h to 6am Newcastle Nobbys NSW: 19mm in 3h to 6pm Wind gusts: Barometer rise: |
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