| 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.
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