Australian Weather News -- 21 July 2000

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Friday 21 July 2000

Wintry weather eases in Tas, but spreads into Vic and NSW

The front that gave wild weather to northern Tasmania yesterday moved through eastern Victoria and NSW today bringing strong winds and highland snow. Winds were gusty with the passage of the front. Cooma Airport, in an exposed basin west of the town, recorded a wind gust of 109km/h just after 5am, about the time the front passed through. The NSW alps recorded yet more substantial snowfalls, with 25mm of precipitation, equating to about 30cm of fresh snow, recorded at Perisher Valley for the 24 hours to 3pm. Slight snow and snow grain showers fell through the day at Oberon on the NSW Central Tablelands, while sleet was reported at Orange Airport. Heavy rain and strong winds continued across northeastern Tasmania for the first few hours of the day, but gradually abated. However, the snow level across the state dropped to around 600m during the day as colder air moved in from the west.

Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am 123.4 Beauty Flat Road South Esk River Tas 97.6 Diddleum Tas 97.2 Quamby Bluff Tas 91.6 Targa Tas Other heavy 24 hour falls in northern Tasmania: 88.6 Ulverstone 88.0 Mt Barrow 86.8 Rossville Frankford 86.0 Wynyard AP 85.4 Latrobe 83.8 Preolenna 82.2 Forthside 82.0 Smithton AP 79.4 Ringarooma 78.2 Elliott Res Stn 75.8 Barrington 75.0 Sheffield 74.2 Waldheim Cradle Valley 72.2 Host Farm Upper Esk 71.4 Wayatinah B Power Station 71.4 Marrawah 70.8 Corra Linn 70.2 Westbury High falls for other periods Tasmania: Low Head LH: 33mm in 6h to 3am Launceston AP: 30mm in 6h to 3am	Today's highest & lowest temps		Other extremes Wind gusts: Mt Crawford SA: 93km/h at 12.10am Mt Boyce NSW: 83km/h at 2pm Bellambi NSW: 93km/h at 9.58am Cooma AP NSW: 109km/h at 5.07am Gelantipy Vic: 94km/h at 5am Dunns Hill Vic: 93km/h at 1am Rhyll, Philip Is Vic: 102km/h at 12.42am Cape Grim Tas: 113km/h at 7am Flood peaks, Tasmania: North Esk at Corra Linn: 3.2m at 6am with major flooding Meander at Meander: 2.1m at 3am with minor flooding Meander at Deloraine: 2.4m at 9am with minor flooding Meander at Strathbridge: 7.15m at 9pm with minor flooding Mersey at Kimberley: 3.0m at 9am with minor flooding Records set this day Highest daily rainfall for July (previous record and years of computerised record shown in brackets): Launceston AP Tas: 61.0 (43.7, 70) Wynyard AP Tas: 86.0 (74.4, 30) Forthside Res Stn Tas: 82.2 (67.8, 35) Marrawah Tas: 71.4 (53.4, 31)
	Maximum	Minimum
	34.0 Fitzroy Crossing AP WA	23.0 McCluer Is NT
	-3.0 Crackenback NSW	-6.5 Woolbrook NSW
	Greatest variations from normal
	Maximum	Minimum
	+6.5 25.6 Wiluna WA	+6.9 4.0 Cooma Visitors Centre NSW
	-3.9 4.2 Tarraleah Tas	-6.4 -0.8 Latrobe Uni Vic

Times stated are the clock time in force in the relevant state or territory
Stories, including those in the archives, are as new and corrected information becomes available, with updates underlined
Australian Weather News gratefully acknowledges the Bureau of Meteorology as the collector and main source of meteorological data in Australia, along with the thousands of observers who record the weather and rainfall daily. I also thank Don White, Blair Trewin and the many contributors to the Aussie Weather mailing list who routinely provide much appreciated information.