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Tuesday 23 May 2000 |
Cold day in the Pilbara and cold night in central NSW |
It was another cold, frosty
morning across the NSW Central and Southern Tablelands with minimum
temperatures around 8 or 9 below average for May. Bathurst recorded
it's second lowest May minimum in 80 years at the Agricultural Research
Station when the thermometer dropped to minus 6.2°. Other unusually cold
late May temperatures included -7 at Cooma (both Airport and Visitors
Centre), -6 at Armidale Uni, Goulburn Airport and Tumbarumba,
-5.1 at Braidwood, and -4 at Forbes Airport and in Victoria
at Rutherglen.
Heavy cloud cover kept daytime temperatures well below average in the Pilbara region of NW Western Australia today. Marble Bar's top of 20.3 and Port Hedland's 21.0 were both around 10 below normal, while farther inland Telfer only reached 17.7, 11 below. |
Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am 35.2 Nabalco Mine Site Gove NT |
Today's highest & lowest temps |
Other extremes Rainfall: Records set this day . |
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Maximum | Minimum | ||
33.6 Croydon Township Qld | 27.0 Coconut Is Qld | ||
5.2 Mt Wellington Tas | -7.5
Cooma Visitors Centre NSW -6.6 Cooma AP NSW -6.2 Bathurst Ag Stn NSW -6.0 Goulburn AP -5.2 Bathurst AP |
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Greatest variations from normal |
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Maximum | Minimum | ||
+5.4 19.6 Lithgow NSW |
+8.6 12.8 Grove Res Stn Tas |
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-11.0 17.7 Telfer AP WA |
-9.7 -6.2 Bathurst Ag Stn NSW |
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