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Monday 21 August 2000 |
Cold morning
in Perth Windy in SA Overnight snow in Tasmania |
Perth residents shivered
in one of the city's coldest mornings for many years. At the airport, the
minimum temperature was 0.4°, 7.6 below normal and only 0.2° warmer than
the coldest ever August minimum in 58 years of record. At the Bureau of
Meteorology's Regional Office site in Perth, the temperature dropped to
1.3. The coldest minimum for any month at the Bureau's Regional Office (the
previous record was 1.6 in 55 years of computerised record), however the
move to a new and slightly colder site at Mt Lawley a few years ago makes
the comparison invalid, though interesting.
An active cold front swept across South Australia this afternoon bringing strong winds to the Yorke Peninsula and Kangaroo Island. Port Lincoln recorded a top gust of 87km/h and Neptune Island, 65km SSE of Port Lincoln, registered 94km/h. The front signalled the leading edge of colder air being swept up over the continent by a vigorous low pressure system, located just 500km SW of Adelaide at mid afternoon. Heavy showers dowsed Kangaroo Island in the strong westerly stream that followed, with Parndana, in the centre of the Island, recording 45mm in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday. Light snow was reported overnight from Liawenee and Tarraleah in the Tasmanian Central Plateau. |
Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am 18.4 Hastings Chalet Tas High falls for other periods: . |
Today's highest & lowest temps |
Other extremes Wind
gusts: Records set this day . |
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Maximum | Minimum | ||
35.0
Wyndham PO WA 35.0 Kimberley Res Stn Kununurra WA 35.0 Gumbalunya Oenpelli NT 35.0 Jabiru AP NT |
23.1
Troughton Is WA 23.1 Horn Is Qld |
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-2.0 Crackenback NSW | -5.0 Cooma Visitors Centre NSW | ||
Greatest variations from normal |
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Maximum | Minimum | ||
+3.7 20.0 Lameroo SA |
+4.5 10.0 White Cliffs NSW |
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-5.2 4.0 Tarraleah Tas |
-7.6 0.4 Perth AP WA -6.8 1.0 Medina Res Centre Kwinana WA -6.8 1.0 Wokalup Ag Res Stn Harvey WA |
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