Local heavy rain on NSW mid-north coast
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| Minimum (above) and maximum (below) temperature departures from normal today BoM |
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Meanwhile, residents of Cape York Peninsula Qld pulled up their doonas as overnight minima dropped close to record levels. Single-digit night time temperatures are rare in this part of the world, but Cooktown's Mission Airstrip near the coast recorded a low of 8° (10 below normal), and Cairns Airport, also near the coast, 9° (8 below). Inland, Musgrave, 350km NW of Cairns, recorded 7.8. An infrequent spell of southerly winds has brought dry, cooler air into northern Queensland, allowing night time temperatures to drop under cloudless skies.
An intense low in the northern Tasman Sea unusually moved westward toward the NSW Mid North Coast yesterday, bringing 30 to 90mm of rain to the coast between Nelson Bay and Port Macquarie over about 30 hours from yesterday morning to late this morning. The NSW coast trends NE to ENE between Newcastle and just south of Forster, so that strong southeasterly winds hit at right angles, often giving exceptionally high and isolated falls. Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse, near the tiny settlement of Seal Rocks, recorded 67mm for the 24 hours to 9 this morning, while Tarbuck Bay on Smiths Lake, south of Forster, recorded 94.5 between 3am yesterday and 9am today.
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