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Monday 28 August 2000

Warm, strong winds bring bushfires to SE Qld
Thunderstorms and hail in eastern NSW
Strengthening dry northwesterly winds fanned numerous small bushfires around and north of Brisbane today. The worst were at The Gap, west of the city, Kuraby to the south, and Mt Petrie to the city's north. North of Brisbane, fires were reported at Kilcoy, Toogoolawah, Clontarf, Caboolture, Strathpine and Samsonvale. The wind grew strong enough during the afternoon to force the closure of Brisbane's Gateway Bridge, high above the Brisbane River.

Heavy thunderstorms swept across Sydney and the Central, Hunter and Mid North Coasts today. They accompanied a weak low pressure system and attendant trough that crossed the coast near Sydney around dawn. Hail to 4cm diameter was reported with a storm at Camden Haven, near Port Macquarie, while hail to 2cm was reported from Laurieton early in the afternoon. During late morning, fast moving storms swept through Sydney's northern suburbs dropping copious small hail, with 6mm of rain falling in 5 minutes at Glenorie in Sydney's northwest.

Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am

28.0 Cape Jaffa SA
23.0 Rainbow Vic
21.0 Rosebud Vic
20.0 Cootamundra AP NSW
20.0 South Channel Island Vic

High falls for other periods:

Western Australia:
Busselton: 14mm in 3h to 3am
New South Wales:
Murrurundi: 17mm in 6h to noon
Tasmania:
Ben Lomond: 53.0 in 4 days to 9am

Today's highest & lowest temps

Other extremes

Wind Gusts:
Cessnock AP NSW: 70km/h at 3.14pm

Records set this day

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Maximum Minimum
36.0 Wollogorang NT
36.0 Victoria River Downs NT
36.0 Warmun Halls Creek WA		 24.0 Coconut Island Qld
-1.0 Crackenback NSW -9.0 Perisher Valley NSW

Greatest variations from normal

Maximum Minimum
+7.5
30.0 Kairi Res Stn Qld
+7.4
32.0 Rockhampton AP Qld		 +10.0
17.0 Springsure Qld
+8.7
15.0 Taroom Qld
+8.6
13.0 Texas Qld
-5.5
11.0 Narooma NSW		 -4.7
-9.0 Perisher Valley NSW