Australian Weather News -- 24 October 2000

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Tuesday 24 October 2000

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Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am 104.2 Trentham Vic 98.0 Mt Buffalo Chalet Vic 77.0 Deniliquin AP NSW 76.8 Quambatook Vic Other heavy falls in Victoria: 76.4 Whitlands 73.4 Ballan 72.4 Lancefield 72.0 Romsey 68.0 Geelong AP 65.0 Ballarat AP 64.0 Raywood PO 62.0 Sheoaks 61.2 Kyabram Other heavy falls elsewhere: 70.8 Deniliquin PO NSW 69.4 Lockhart River Qld 66.0 Albemarle Gum Lake NSW High falls for other periods: .	Today's highest & lowest temps		*Wind (mean* refers to the average windspeed over 10 minutes; gust is the highest speed recorded): Other extremes . Records set this day Highest daily rainfall for October (previous record and years of computerised record shown in brackets): Ballarat AP Vic:** 65.0 (46.6, 92)
	Maximum	Minimum
	39.0 Wyndham AP WA	27.0 Dum In Mirrie NT
	9.0 Crackenback NSW	1.2 Woolbrook NSW
	Greatest variations from normal
	Maximum	Minimum
	+8.3 21.8 Tarraleah Tas	+9.7 16.0 Rutherglen Vic
	-7.6 28.0 Georgetown Qld	-5.6 14.9 Wittenoom WA -5.6 2.0 Salmon Gums WA

Times stated are the clock time in force in the relevant state or territory
Stories, including those in the archives, are as new and corrected information becomes available, with updates underlined
Australian Weather News gratefully acknowledges the Bureau of Meteorology as the collector and main source of meteorological data in Australia, along with the thousands of observers who record the weather and rainfall daily. I also thank Don White, Blair Trewin and the many contributors to the Aussie Weather mailing list who routinely provide much appreciated information.