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Tuesday 02 January 2001 |
| Heat spreads across SE Australia |
| Yesterday's South Australian heat spread across Victoria and Tasmania today with coastal areas in all three states recording both overnight and daytime temperatures 10 to 15° above average. It was a day of searing heat in South Australia, with a top temperature at Adelaide Airport of 40.1 and winds gusting to 91km/h atop Mt Lofty behind the city. Temperatures in central and northern parts of the state were again in the low 40s, while in the south Murray Bridge and Keith recorded their second successive maximum temperatures of 40°. Areas inland from Adelaide and in the southeast of the state recorded overnight temperatures around 13° above normal. Thunderstorms were widespread in southeastern SA and western Victoria during the afternoon, with heavy hail reported at Keith, but rainfall amounts were small. In Victoria, Heywood, Walpeup, Casterton and Port Fairy in the state's west recorded tops of 39 after a night when temperatures in the northwest stayed 10 to 12° above normal. The warm airstream also reached Tasmania, giving West Coast and central areas daytime readings in the mid-30s, 12 or 13 above normal. |
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Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am 132.0 Tully Qld High falls for other periods: Northern Territory: |
Today's highest & lowest temps |
Wind (mean refers to the average windspeed over 10 minutes; gust is the highest speed recorded): Mt Lofty summit SA: Gusts to 91km/h at noon Other extremes Flood peaks: Records set this day . |
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| Maximum | Minimum | ||
| 44.0
Warburton AF WA 43.8 Mullewa WA |
30.1
Oodnadatta AF SA 29.4 Arid Lands Port Augusta SA 29.3 Port Pirie BHAS |
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| 18.0 Crackenback NSW | 2.6 Bombala PO NSW | ||
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Greatest variations from normal |
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| Maximum | Minimum | ||
| +15.6 37.2 Cape Northumberland SA +14.5 38.6 Heywood Vic +13.6 42.6 Whyalla Town SA |
+13.5 25.0 Coonawarra SA +13.4 25.6 Naracoorte PO SA +13.3 25.0 Mt Barker SA |
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| -6.3 22.9 Ravensthorpe WA |
-9.4 7.1 Wagga Wagga Soil Conservation NSW |
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