Australian Weather News |
Saturday, 06 OCT 2001 |
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Widespread rain of 10 to 40mm fell across the Murchison, Central West and Goldfields districts in WA late yesterday and today. The weather station at Murchison recorded 21.9mm for the 24 hours to 9am, their heaviest October one-day total in 14 years of computer records. Middle-level moisture streaming in from the northwest combined with a low developing in the WA heat trough near Carnarvon and an injection of cooler southern air yesterday to produce widespread uplift and the rain. The cloud kept daytime temperatures unusually low, with Kalgoorlie-Boulder reaching only 12.1° for the day, while Carnegie's top of 14.6 was 17.5 below average. |
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 (previous
record and years of computerised record shown in brackets): Highest daily rainfall for October: Murchison WA: 21.9 (17.8, 14) |
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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. 29.0 BURNERBINMAH Murchison
WA |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. |
Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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Maximum | Minimum |
39.0 JABIRU AIRPORT Darwin-Daly NT 38.8 ELLIOTT Barkly NT 38.1 OENPELLI Darwin-Daly NT 38.0 WYNDHAM AERO N Kimberley WA 38.0 WARMUN E Kimberley WA 38.0 FITZROY CROSSING AERO W Kimberley WA 38.0 DALY WATERS AWS Roper-McArthur NT 38.0 LAJAMANU Victoria NT 38.0 BRADSHAW Darwin-Daly NT |
27.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT 27.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR 26.7 MANINGRIDA Arnhem NT 26.5 TROUGHTON ISLAND N Kimberley WA 26.5 WYNDHAM POST OFFICE N Kimberley WA |
2.2 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 3.6 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC 4.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 5.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC 5.3 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS |
-1.9 GLEN INNES AIRPORT AWS N Tablelands W NSW -1.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW -0.7 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC -0.6 ARMIDALE (UNI NEW ENGLAND) N Tablelands W NSW |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
Maximum | Minimum |
+6.2 27.9 NORAH HEAD LIGHTHOUSE Hunter Valley NSW +5.5 28.5 SOUTH WEST ROCKS (SMOKY CAPE LIGHTHOUSE) MidNorth Coast N NSW +5.2 27.5 SYDNEY AIRPORT AMO Sydney--east NSW +5.0 27.0 SYDNEY (OBSERVATORY HILL) Sydney--east NSW +4.6 28.8 DOUBLE ISLAND POINT LIGHTHOUSE Brisbane/SE Coast QLD |
+3.9 26.7 MANINGRIDA Arnhem NT +3.6 13.8 MORAWA POST OFFICE Central West WA +3.3 19.8 ONSLOW W Pilbara WA +3.3 10.0 BRIDGETOWN POST OFFICE SW & S Coast WA +3.3 18.0 NORFOLK ISLAND AERO Islands ISL |
-17.5 14.6 CARNEGIE Interior WA -13.8 14.9 LEONORA Goldfields WA -13.5 12.1 KALGOORLIE-BOULDER AIRPORT Goldfields WA -12.6 14.2 CASHMERE DOWNS Goldfields WA -11.9 13.5 SOUTHERN CROSS Goldfields WA |
-11.7
6.9 MOUNT ISA AERO Gulf Country QLD -10.4 7.6 RICHMOND POST OFFICE Upper Carpentaria QLD -8.9 7.7 ISISFORD POST OFFICE Central West QLD -8.3 5.3 TAMBO POST OFFICE Central Highlands QLD |
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. NEPTUNE ISLAND W Agricultural
SA : 95 (250/ 67 ) at 04:30 |
Other extremes .. |