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Wednesday, 09 MAY 2001 |
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Norfolk Island Airport recorded 70mm in two hours to 11.30 this morning. An active cloudband has been streaming across the island yesterday and today, feeding around the low that gave heavy rain to the NSW coast early in the week. The low is slow-moving, and the island recorded 51mm for the day ended 9am in a succession of thunderstorms. 83mm fell between 9am and 1pm, making up a total of 134mm in 30 hours to 3pm. |
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 (not checked or entered yet) | |
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. 113.0 NORAH HEAD AWS Hunter
Valley NSW |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. |
Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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Maximum | Minimum |
36.2 ROEBOURNE E Pilbara WA 35.0 BIDYADANGA W Kimberley WA 35.0 MANDORA E Pilbara WA 35.0 PANNAWONICA W Pilbara WA 35.0 NYANG STATION W Gascoyne WA |
28.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR Islands 26.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT 26.0 COCONUT ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 26.0 VARANUS ISLAND Islands 25.0 THEVENARD ISLAND W Pilbara WA |
6.7 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 7.7 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 8.1 HARTZ MOUNTAIN(KEOGHS PIMPLE) Southeast TAS 8.5 MAYDENA (POST OFFICE) Derwent Valley TAS 9.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 9.0 OUSE FIRE STATION Derwent Valley TAS |
-5.5 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW -4.5 LIAWENEE AWS Central Plateau TAS -2.9 LAKE ST CLAIR NATIONAL PARK Central Plateau TAS -2.5 PERISHER VALLEY SKI CENTRE Snowy Mtns NSW -2.0 THREDBO VILLAGE Snowy Mtns NSW -2.0 TUNNACK FIRE STATION Southeast TAS |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
Maximum | Minimum |
+7.5 25.0 ECHUCA AERODROME Lower North VIC +6.0 36.2 ROEBOURNE E Pilbara WA +5.9 30.7 THREE RIVERS E Gascoyne WA +5.8 26.3 SOUTHERN CROSS Goldfields WA +5.7 29.4 WILUNA Interior WA |
+7.4 12.6 QUIRINDI POST OFFICE NW Slopes S NSW +7.4 14.7 JERRYS PLAINS POST OFFICE Hunter Valley NSW +7.1 12.4 MURRURUNDI POST OFFICE Hunter Valley NSW +7.0 23.0 NYANG STATION W Gascoyne WA +6.7 14.0 CAMDEN AIRPORT AWS Illawarra NSW |
-5.3 10.3 COOMA VISITORS CENTRE Goulburn/Monaro
NSW -4.2 10.0 BUSHY PARK (BUSHY PARK ESTATES) Derwent Valley TAS -3.3 11.2 GROVE RESEARCH STATION Southeast TAS -2.9 17.3 WILLIAMTOWN RAAF Hunter Valley NSW -2.8 12.6 BOWRAL (PARRY DRIVE) Illawarra NSW |
-8.4 8.0 DALY WATERS AWS Roper-McArthur NT -7.8 10.4 KIMBERLEY RES.STATION E Kimberley WA -7.5 9.0 PROSERPINE AIRPORT Central Coast E QLD -7.5 6.0 CAMOOWEAL TOWNSHIP Northwest QLD -7.3 8.0 WAVE HILL Victoria NT |
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS:
76 (200/ 67 ) at 16:30 |
Other extremes .. |