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Tuesday 19 September 2000 |
Wintry in Tasmania as bushfires flare in NSW, WA | ||
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. |
Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am 45.0 Mt Read Tas High falls for other periods: . |
Today's highest & lowest temps |
Other extremes Wind gusts: 10 minute
average wind: Records set this day . |
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Maximum | Minimum | ||
39.0 Onslow AP WA | 25.0
McCluer Is NT 25.0 Warruwi NT |
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1.9 Mt Hotham Vic | -2.0 Crackenback NSW | ||
Greatest variations from normal |
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Maximum | Minimum | ||
+10.0 29.7 Norah Head LH NSW +9.8 32.7 Mt Seaview NSW +9.6 34.5 Mungindi NSW |
+8.1 12.0 Bushy Park Tas |
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-5.3 26.0 Milingimbi NT |
-5.5 9.0 Mt Isa AP Qld |
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