Australian Weather News |
Sunday, 07 OCT 2001 |
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Cold southern air moving in
under solid, slow-moving cloud kept daytime temperatures between 10 and
18° below average today along a 500km-wide belt across central WA, southern
NT and northern SA. Warburton, 250km west of the meeting point
of the WA, SA and NT borders, recorded a top of only 13°, 18.1 below average,
while Marla, a truck stop on the Sturt Highway 400km south of Alice
Springs recorded a top of 12.5, 17.3 below.
Light snow and wintry hail showers were reported above about 1000 to 1100 metres from Orange east to the Blue Mountains and south to the Victorian Border. Light snow, enough to settle at times, fell overnight and through the day at Oberon while Blackheath and Katoomba in the Blue Mountains experienced a brief shower of snowflakes around 2pm with the unusually warm temperatures of 5 to 6°. At Orange Airport, the mercury dropped to 3.2° at 1pm as a cold downdraft accompanied a short showshower. At the same time, Thredbo Crackenback reported a temperature of -3.2, while Thredbo Village reported 5cm of snow on the ground at 9am. Large snowflakes were reported at Taralga around midday, while lying snow was seen in higher country around Cooma and Nimmitabel. Wintry hail showers were widespread in the higher country, and disrupted the Bathurst motor races on the higher parts of the Mount Panorama circuit. Temperatures in the low to mid thirties combined with strong NW winds during the afternoon caused fires to flare up in southeast Queensland. At Elimbah, 50km north of Brisbane, 40 people were evacuated to nearby Caboolture when one blaze threatened their homes. Winds died after the passage of a trough during the early evening, and fires were brought under control. |
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. 33.4 BRANXHOLME W Coast VIC |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. |
Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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Maximum | Minimum |
39.4 FLYING FOX Roper-McArthur NT 38.2 OENPELLI Darwin-Daly NT 38.0 WYNDHAM AERO N Kimberley WA 38.0 MIDDLE POINT AWS 37.7 WOLLOGORANG Roper-McArthur NT |
28.2 MANINGRIDA Arnhem NT 27.0 WYNDHAM AERO N Kimberley WA 27.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR 26.9 KIDMAN SPRINGS Victoria NT 26.2 TROUGHTON ISLAND N Kimberley WA |
-2.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW -0.8 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC 0.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC 2.0 CABRAMURRA SMHEA AWS SW Slopes S NSW 2.7 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS |
-6.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW -4.3 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC -4.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC -2.0 CABRAMURRA SMHEA AWS SW Slopes S NSW -1.8 MT HOTHAM AIRPORT Upper NE VIC |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
Maximum | Minimum |
+8.8 34.0 REDCLIFFE COUNCIL Brisbane/SE Coast QLD +8.6 31.9 YAMBA PILOT STATION North Coast NSW +7.4 33.9 NAMBOUR DPI Brisbane/SE Coast QLD +6.7 29.9 BYRON BAY (CAPE BYRON LIGHTHOUSE) North Coast NSW +6.5 34.0 AMBERLEY AMO Brisbane/SE Coast QLD +6.5 33.2 ARCHERFIELD AIRPORT Brisbane/SE Coast QLD |
+5.4 28.2 MANINGRIDA Arnhem NT +4.2 18.0 GYMPIE Brisbane/SE Coast QLD +3.7 20.0 BUNDABERG AERO Wide Bay/Burnett QLD +3.5 17.1 NAMBOUR DPI Brisbane/SE Coast QLD +3.5 16.0 NELSON BAY (NELSON HEAD) Hunter Valley NSW |
-18.1 13.0 WARBURTON AIRFIELD Interior WA -17.3 12.5 MARLA POLICE STATION NW Pastoral SA -15.7 15.7 CURTIN SPRINGS Alice Springs NT -14.1 18.0 CARNEGIE Interior WA -13.7 15.8 YEELIRRIE Goldfields WA |
-8.7 9.9 MOUNT ISA AERO Gulf Country QLD -7.1 3.0 TRANGIE RESEARCH STATION AWS CW Plains N NSW -6.7 5.7 LEIGH CREEK AIRPORT NE Pastoral SA -6.5 1.0 SALMON GUMS RES.STN. Goldfields WA -6.4 4.0 PARKES (MACARTHUR STREET) CW Slopes S NSW |
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. WILLIAMTOWN RAAF Hunter Valley
NSW: 72 (320/ 63 ) at 13:23 |
Other extremes .. |