Australian Weather News |
Thursday, 20 SEP 2001 |
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An early season heatwave that has been moving across southern Australia since Monday gave a very warm night and a hot day to northern SA and western NSW today. In northwestern NSW, Tibooburra recorded a top temperature of 35.5, 11.1° above average, after nearby White Cliffs had reported an overnight minimum of 20.0, also 11.1 above average. Thunderstorms triggered by a weak front/trough system moving across NSW during the afternoon and evening brought scattered thunderstorms, with hail reported from Bathurst, Bowral and Cooma. |
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. 31.0 NASH'S CROSSING ALERT N
Coast--Herbert QLD |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. |
Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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Maximum | Minimum |
38.0 WYNDHAM AERO N Kimberley WA 38.0 FITZROY CROSSING AERO W Kimberley WA 38.0 BRADSHAW Darwin-Daly NT 37.9 DOUGLAS RIVER Darwin-Daly NT 37.5 CURTIN AERO W Kimberley WA 37.5 KIMBERLEY RES.STATION E Kimberley WA |
27.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR 25.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT 25.0 COCONUT ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 24.8 TROUGHTON ISLAND N Kimberley WA 24.8 WARRUWI Arnhem NT |
7.0 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 7.5 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 8.9 CRADLE MOUNTAIN AIRSTRIP Central Plateau TAS 9.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 9.5 LIAWENEE AWS Central Plateau TAS |
-0.4 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 0.8 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 1.0 BRIDGETOWN SW & S Coast WA 1.2 ARMIDALE (UNI NEW ENGLAND) N Tablelands W NSW 1.7 BRIDGETOWN POST OFFICE SW & S Coast WA 1.7 GLEN INNES AIRPORT AWS N Tablelands W NSW |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
Maximum | Minimum |
+11.1 35.5 TIBOOBURRA POST OFFICE Far Northwest NSW +11.0 31.6 HAY (MILLER STREET) Riverina W NSW +10.9 36.3 MARREE NE Pastoral SA +10.5 33.9 WILCANNIA (REID ST) Far Northwest NSW +10.3 32.7 IVANHOE POST OFFICE Southwest Plains NSW |
+11.1 20.0 WHITE CLIFFS POST OFFICE Far Northwest
NSW +9.8 20.0 NELSON BAY (NELSON HEAD) Hunter Valley NSW +9.5 8.8 THREDBO VILLAGE Snowy Mtns NSW +9.3 20.2 KULGERA Alice Springs NT +9.3 15.0 GRIFFITH AIRPORT AWS Riverina W NSW |
-4.7 19.5 BALGAIR Eucla WA -4.7 21.6 GLADSTONE RADAR Wide Bay/Burnett QLD -4.3 28.0 MARDIE W Pilbara WA -4.2 16.9 EUCLA Eucla WA -4.0 28.7 BIDYADANGA W Kimberley WA -4.0 18.0 BALLADONIA Eucla WA |
-6.0 12.0 DOONGAN N Kimberley WA -4.7 5.4 JURIEN Lower West WA -4.5 1.9 KATANNING COMPARISON Gt Southern WA -3.9 1.7 BRIDGETOWN POST OFFICE SW & S Coast WA |
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:
102 (270/ 78 ) at 02:00 |
Other extremes .. |