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| The week's rainfall to 9 this morning shows the effects of a typical -- and long-lived -- westerly regime BoM |
A blustery winter continues in Tasmania, with gale force winds and hail showers across the state. A persistent ridge of high pressure across NSW has provided glorious spring weather for the Sydney Olympics, but has also given over a week of Roaring Forties westerlies to the most southerly state. Moist norwesterlies ahead of successive cold fronts have dumped heavy rain on the west coast, but provided unusually warm nights in the east -- at Bushy Park, up the Derwent Valley from Hobart, the thermometer only dropped to 12° this morning, 8 above average. Rainfall on the mainland has been negligible, and rising temperatures and the low humidity typical of spring continue to cause firefighters concern. A large fire in Western Australia's Kimberley region has closed the Bungle Bungle National Park, while another fire flared up on the NSW South Coast today in the Flat Rock State Forest west of Ulladulla.
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