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Sunday 30 April 2000

Gales in the southeast as active front crosses
The strong cold front that has travelled across WA and SA over the past two days gave strong to gale force winds to Victoria and Tasmania today. 10 to 25mm of rain fell across Victoria's dry West Coast and Western District, improving the sowing outlook for grain growers. The front also delivered some good winter westerly type rainfall to Tasmania's West Coast, where Low Rocky Point recorded 72mm for the 24 hours to 9am.

Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am

72.0 Low Rocky Point Tas
66.4 Hamilton Is Qld
53.0 Mt Lofty summit SA
52.0 Uraidla SA

Other heavy falls in SE SA:
43.2 Belair
43.2 Clarendon
40.6 Mt Bold Reservoir
40.0 Kuitpo
39.0 Cape Willoughby

Today's highest & lowest temps

Other extremes

Rainfall:
Heron Is Qld: 56.4mm in 5h to 6.50pm
Hamilton Is Qld: 53mm in 9h to 6am
Low Rocky Point Tas: 51mm in 9h to 6am

Wind gusts:
Crackenback NSW: 120km/h at 8am
Mt Hotham summit Vic: 119km/h at 5am
Falls Ck Vic: 104km/h at 12.54am and 3.30 am
Dunns Hill (Mt Dandenong) Vic: 91km/h at 4.30am
Cape Grim Tas: 94km/h at 9pm

Records set this day

Lowest April minimum temperatures:
Morawa PO WA: 4.6. Previous record 5.7 in 36 years of record
Yeelirrie WA: 1.2. Previous record 4.0 in 26 years of record
Newcastle Nobbys Signal Station NSW: 7.2. Previous record 7.4 in 44 years of record.
Maximum Minimum
34.5 Kuri Bay WA 28.0 McCluer Is NT
7.3 Mt Hotham Vic 1.2 Yeelirrie WA

Greatest variations from normal

Maximum Minimum
+7.6
27.3 Pt Hicks LH Vic		 +9.9
18.1 Swansea Tas
-14.3
20.0 Elliott NT
-10.3
20.0 Jervois NT
-10.1
19.0 Warburton AF WA		 -12.7
1.2 Yeelirrie WA
-11.0
6.0 Meekatharra AP WA
-11.0
3.2 Paynes Find WA

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