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Wednesday 24 May 2000 |
Moderate rain in WA Pilbara, SE Qld |
Falls of up to 50mm were recorded
around Port Hedland in the WA Pilbara in the 24 hours to 9
this morning. The rain fell from a cloudband generated by an area of intense
thunderstorms well off the Pilbara coast. The moisture pushed into the middle
atmosphere by the storms was carried southeast then east to give rain in
the Pilbara and farther inland as well, where the mining community of Telfer
recorded 48mm for the 24 hours, 30 of it falling between midnight and 9am.
It has been raining for two days in the area, with 48 hour totals as high
as 86mm at Carlindi, 75km southeast of Port Hedland.
Earlier cloud generated in the same way streamed across southern Queensland overnight, giving good falls to around 45mm to the state's southeast. |
Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am 51.0 Carlindi Port Hedland WA Other heavy falls in northern WA: |
Today's highest & lowest temps |
Other extremes Rainfall: Records set this day Telfer AP WA: Highest May 24-hour rainfall in 26 years of computer record, 48.0 exceeding the previous record of 44.0 |
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Maximum | Minimum | ||
34.3 Kalumburu WA | 26.0
McCluer Is NT 26.0 Coconut Is Qld |
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2.8 Mt Hotham Vic | -5.4 Armidale Uni NSW | ||
Greatest variations from normal |
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Maximum | Minimum | ||
+4.0 22.6 Narrandera Council NSW |
+9.2 13.4 Grove Res Stn Tas |
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-9.9 20.8 Marble Bar WA |
-9.8 -0.3 Eyre WA |
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