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Sunday, 01 APR 2001 |
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Heavy showers and rain areas
moving onto the Queensland North Tropical Coast in a moist trade
wind have given coastal areas south of Cairns up to 250mm over the past
two days. Tully McQuillan Street gauge recorded 245mm in the 2 days
ended 9 this morning, while totals for the 3½ days to 9 this evening included
339 at Tully, 335 at Jarrah Creek and 284 at Bolinda Estate. The showers
intensified today, with Innisfail recording 89mm between 9am and 3pm. Minor
flooding occurred in the Tully River, with a peak of 7.4m, 1.4 above the
minor flood level, expected at Euramo overnight into Monday.
Two cold fronts sweeping across Tasmania today produced storm force winds and hail in highland and coastal areas. Maatsuyker Island reported winds averaging 102km/h and gusting to 115 around 7pm as the second front moved through. |
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. 139.0 MENAVALE ALERT N Coast--Herbert
QLD |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less.
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Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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Maximum | Minimum |
39.5
ENEABBA Central West WA 39.0 GERALDTON AIRPORT Central West WA 38.0 GASCOYNE JUNCTION W Gascoyne WA 38.0 SHARK BAY AIRPORT W Gascoyne WA 37.7 ROEBOURNE E Pilbara WA |
27.3
WILLIS ISLAND Islands 26.6 TROUGHTON ISLAND N Kimberley WA 26.0 VARANUS ISLAND Islands 25.2 NORMANTON POST OFFICE Gulf Country QLD 25.1 BLACK POINT Darwin-Daly NT |
7.7
MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 8.0 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 8.7 HARTZ MOUNTAIN(KEOGHS PIMPLE) Southeast TAS 11.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 11.9 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC |
1.8
COOMA AIRPORT AWS Goulburn/Monaro NSW 1.8 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW 2.0 THREDBO VILLAGE Snowy Mtns NSW 2.5 TARALGA POST OFFICE Goulburn/Monaro NSW 3.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
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Maximum | Minimum |
+11.5
36.8 LANCELIN Lower West WA +11.4 39.0 GERALDTON AIRPORT Central West WA +10.7 39.5 ENEABBA Central West WA +9.5 35.7 JURIEN Lower West WA +9.0 35.2 MOORA Central West WA |
+8.5
15.6 ORANGE AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE C Tablelands S NSW +7.0 17.6 HILLSTON AIRPORT Riverina W NSW +6.1 18.3 WHITE CLIFFS POST OFFICE Far Northwest NSW +6.0 17.7 WILCANNIA (REID ST) Far Northwest NSW +6.0 15.9 HAY MILLER STREET Riverina W NSW |
-3.9
28.0 ALYANGULA POLICE Arnhem NT -3.9 25.3 CAIRNS AERO N Coast--Barron QLD -3.2 28.9 CENTRE ISLAND Roper-McArthur NT -3.1 26.1 CARDWELL EDEN ST N Coast--Herbert QLD -2.9 28.0 GOVE AIRPORT Arnhem NT |
-8.3
8.0 KALBARRI Central West WA -5.4 15.7 WITTENOOM W Pilbara WA -5.1 10.6 THREE RIVERS E Gascoyne WA -4.5 16.0 TELFER AERO Interior WA -4.3 7.2 LAKE GRACE POST OFFICE Gt Southern WA -4.3 12.0 GILES METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE Interior WA |
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. WILSONS PROMONTORY LIGHTHOUSE W
Gippsland VIC: 74 (240/ 63 ) at 23:30 |
Other extremes .. |