Australian Weather News -- 15 MAR 2001

Australian Weather News

Thursday, 15 MAR 2001

Active front brings cooler weather in SA, WA
Forest fire continues in western Victoria

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 Data provided by the Bureau of Meteorology Last updated at 18:28 EDST on 17/03/01
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 106.0 HOME PARK TM Brisbane/SE Coast QLD 75.0 TOPAZ N Coast--Barron QLD 72.0 BARTLE VIEW ALERT N Coast--Barron QLD 65.0 TOPAZ ALERT N Coast--Barron QLD *QUEENSLAND* N Peninsula 64.0 MERLUNA 64.0 CAPE KEERWEER 62.0 PICCANINNY PLAINS STATION 52.8 BATAVIA DOWNS STATION N Coast--Barron 118.0 DAINTREE TEA 75.0 TOPAZ 72.0 BARTLE VIEW ALERT 65.0 TOPAZ ALERT 64.0 BOLINDA ESTATE TM 61.5 BABINDA POST OFFICE 60.0 MT SOPHIA 52.8 CAPE TRIBULATION STORE N Coast--Herbert 60.0 NERADA ALERT Brisbane/SE Coast 106.0 HOME PARK TM	High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. *WESTERN AUSTRALIA* *W Kimberley* FITZROY CROSSING AERO 17.4mm in 41 min to 22:00 25.5mm/h *NORTHERN TERRITORY* *Arnhem* MILINGIMBI 7.2mm in 15 min to 09:15 28.8mm/h 8.8mm in 15 min to 09:30 35.2mm/h NARAWILLI 69.0mm in 3 hr to 23:30 23.0mm/h *Victoria* VICTORIA RIVER DOWNS 13.6mm in 14 min to 17:30 58.3mm/h *SOUTH AUSTRALIA* *W Agricultural* NULLARBOR ROADHOUSE 2.2mm in 1 min to 20:09 132.0mm/h 3.0mm in 2 min to 20:11 90.0mm/h *QUEENSLAND* *N Peninsula* COEN AIRPORT 38.0mm in 3 hr to 18:00 12.7mm/h *N Coast--Herbert* LUCINDA POINT 14.4mm in 1 hr 4 min to 05:55 13.5mm/h 14.4mm in 34 min to 06:29 25.4mm/h *NEW SOUTH WALES* *NW Plains E* MOREE AERO 19.0mm in 30 min to 22:00 38.0mm/h
Todays highest & lowest temperatures
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
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 ..