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Thursday, 15 MAR 2001 |
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Another active cold front entered
South Australia today, bringing wind gusts to 122km/h at Nullarbor
Roadhouse in the state's west as a band of thunderstorms moved east,
and dropping temperatures that had risen to 10 or more degrees above normal
around the coast.
A fire that has burnt out over 2,000 hectares of ironbark forest in the Pyrenees Ranges near Avoca, Victoria, since Monday continued to burn today. Control lines were being consolidated in view of hot windy weather forecast for Friday. |
National
weather extremes for today |
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Quality control note: Data is complete, and has been visually checked by AWN for gross errors. Less obvious errors may remain. See Explanation of Extremes Pages for more information | |
Records set this day (none known) | |
Todays highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am. It includes the top 5 totals received, and/or all reported falls of 50mm or more. 118.0 DAINTREE TEA N Coast--Barron
QLD |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less.
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Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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Maximum | Minimum |
41.3
KARRATHA AERO E Pilbara WA 41.2 ROEBOURNE E Pilbara WA 41.0 MARDIE W Pilbara WA 40.2 BIRDSVILLE POLICE STATION Channel Country QLD 40.0 PORT HEDLAND AIRPORT E Pilbara WA 40.0 BIRDSVILLE AIRPORT Channel Country QLD 40.0 MARBLE BAR E Pilbara WA |
28.0
BARROW ISLAND AIRPORT W Pilbara WA 28.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR Islands 27.5 TROUGHTON ISLAND N Kimberley WA 27.5 BOULIA AIRPORT Channel Country QLD 27.0 COCONUT ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 27.0 BIRDSVILLE AIRPORT Channel Country QLD 27.0 VARANUS ISLAND Islands |
13.8
MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 14.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 14.8 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 15.2 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC 15.5 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS |
1.6
PERISHER VALLEY SKI CENTRE Snowy Mtns NSW 2.0 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW 2.4 LAKE ST CLAIR NATIONAL PARK Central Plateau TAS 2.8 THREDBO VILLAGE Snowy Mtns NSW 3.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
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Maximum | Minimum |
+13.0
38.0 EUCLA Eucla WA +10.9 31.4 CAPE NORTHUMBERLAND Lower SE SA +10.4 37.0 CEDUNA AMO W Agricultural SA +10.0 37.0 NULLARBOR ROADHOUSE W Agricultural SA +9.1 34.5 EYRE Eucla WA |
+6.4
25.6 OODNADATTA AIRPORT NE Pastoral SA +5.9 26.9 BIRDSVILLE POLICE STATION Channel Country QLD +5.8 23.9 KULGERA Alice Springs NT +5.8 27.5 BOULIA AIRPORT Channel Country QLD +5.4 24.2 CUNNAMULLA POST OFFICE Warrego QLD |
-9.7
22.0 BADGINGARRA RESEARCH STN Lower West WA -8.8 22.1 BENCUBBIN Cent Wheatbelt WA -8.6 22.1 WONGAN HILLS Central West WA -8.6 19.0 KARNET Lower West WA -8.6 21.7 GOOMALLING Cent Wheatbelt WA |
-9.7
5.1 CONDOBOLIN AG RESEARCH STN CW Plains S NSW -5.9 3.6 ARARAT PRISON Western Plains VIC -5.7 9.0 IVANHOE POST OFFICE Southwest Plains NSW -5.6 12.5 ENEABBA Central West WA -5.3 5.4 HEYWOOD FORESTRY W Coast VIC |
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. NULLARBOR ROADHOUSE W Agricultural SA : 122 (300/ 85 ) at 20:09 |
Other extremes .. |