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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
35.0 Gove AP NT
31.0 Wallareenya Port Hedland WA
29.0 Port Hedland AP WA

Today's highest & lowest temps

Other extremes

Rainfall:
Tewantin Qld: 43mm in 12h to 3pm
Cape Sorell Tas: 23mm in 3h to midnight

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

Greatest variations from normal

Maximum Minimum
+5.4
19.6 Lithgow NSW		 +8.6
12.8 Grove Res Stn Tas
-11.0
17.7 Telfer AP WA		 -9.7
-6.2 Bathurst Ag Stn NSW

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