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Friday 26 May 2000 |
Cold outbreak
arrives in SA, Vic Moderate overnight rain on NSW Northern Tablelands |
The strongest polar outbreak
in May for many years arrived on the South Australian and western Victorian
coasts today, bringing gales, hail, and very low daytime temperatures.
The cold front arrived on the South Australian coast around dawn, and was
followed by wintry hail showers, isolated thunderstorms and strong SW winds,
which gusted to 113km/h on Neptune Island, at the mouth of Spencer
Gulf. Adelaide Airport recorded a 10-minute average wind of 72km/h
around 7am, soon after the front swept through. Heavy hail showers whitened
the top of Mt Lofty, where winds gusted to 100km/h as the temperature
dropped to 4° by midday. The change arrived on the western Victorian
coast in the early afternoon, reinforced by a rapidly developing low just
to the south. At Portland, the temperature dropped as low as 3.5°
at 2.22pm as a wintry shower dumped 9.2mm on the town in 10 minutes. Heavy
showers continued, giving Portland's Cashmere Airport 41mm between noon
and 9pm as the low wound up. It deepened to 982hPa by late evening as it
moved away down the western Tasmanian coast.
The same cloudband that gave heavy rain to the WA Pilbara two days ago produced some heavy overnight falls on the NSW Northern Tablelands and nearby areas in southern Queensland. Inverell recorded 56.2mm for the 24 hours to 9am, 42 falling in 12 hours overnight to 3am. The heavier registrations are listed in the box below. |
Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am 56.2 Inverell NSW Other heavy falls in northern NSW: Other heavy falls in southern Qld: |
Today's highest & lowest temps |
Other extremes Rainfall: Wind gusts: Records set this day . |
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Maximum | Minimum | ||
35.7 Kalumburu WA | 27.0 McCluer Is | ||
0.0 Crackenback NSW | -3.5 Cooma Visitors Centre NSW | ||
Greatest variations from normal |
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Maximum | Minimum | ||
+4.4 26.5 Double Island Point LH Qld |
+8.7 16.6 Miles PO Qld |
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-8.8 14.6 Surat PO Qld |
-7.7 0.8 Kellerberrin WA |
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