Australian Weather News |
Wednesday, 24 OCT 2001 |
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During today, rain spread northeast into NSW, while thunderstorms and rain areas also developed through western and central Queensland in the broad trough system. In NSW, Thredbo Crackenback station reported 53mm between 9pm and 6am today, Mudgee Airport 29mm between 6am and midday, and Bathurst Airport 24mm between 9am and 3pm. In Queensland, storms and rain areas developed from late morning, and details of some of the heavier short-duration falls are in the box below. The heaviest 24 hour totals to 9am Thursday were Boulia Airport 55.9, Burketown Airport 46 and Quilpie Telemeter 39mm. Properties in dry areas around Winton and Longreach received up to 45mm. |
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. 95.2 MOUNT BUFFALO CHALET Upper
NE VIC |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. QUEENSLAND
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Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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Maximum | Minimum |
41.0 WYNDHAM AERO N Kimberley WA 40.2 WYNDHAM POST OFFICE N Kimberley WA 40.0 DALY WATERS AWS Roper-McArthur NT 39.9 KIMBERLEY RES.STATION E Kimberley WA 39.2 KIDMAN SPRINGS Victoria NT |
29.5 WYNDHAM POST OFFICE N Kimberley WA 28.0 WYNDHAM AERO N Kimberley WA 28.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT 28.0 DUM IN MIRRIE Darwin-Daly NT 27.6 CHANNEL POINT Darwin-Daly NT |
6.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 8.5 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW 8.7 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 8.9 MOUNT LOFTY Mt Lofty Ranges SA 9.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC |
2.0 BRIDGETOWN SW & S Coast WA 2.7 DONNYBROOK SW & S Coast WA 3.0 KATANNING Gt Southern WA 3.0 NORSEMAN AERO Goldfields WA 3.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
Maximum | Minimum |
+7.9 28.0 MORUYA HEADS PILOT STATION South Coast
NSW +7.5 27.3 JERVIS BAY (POINT PERPENDICULAR LIGHTHOU Illawarra NSW +7.3 24.7 BICHENO (COUNCIL DEPOT) E Coast TAS +7.2 24.9 SWANSEA POST OFFICE E Coast TAS +7.0 29.0 SYDNEY (OBSERVATORY HILL) Sydney--east NSW |
+10.1 13.9 COOMA VISITORS CENTRE Goulburn/Monaro
NSW +9.8 16.7 COWRA AIRPORT CW Slopes S NSW +9.3 15.0 TIDBINBILLA NATURE RESERVE Goulburn/Monaro NSW +9.2 15.5 NERRIGA COMPOSITE South Coast NSW +9.1 15.0 LITHGOW (BIRDWOOD ST) C Tablelands S NSW |
-7.5 17.0 NULLARBOR ROADHOUSE W Agricultural SA
-6.1 25.0 WARBURTON AIRFIELD Interior WA -5.9 26.2 CARNEGIE Interior WA -5.8 28.6 MOUNT ISA AERO Gulf Country QLD -5.6 15.5 ESPERANCE SW & S Coast WA -5.6 23.1 LEONORA Goldfields WA -5.6 26.0 GILES METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE Interior WA |
-7.3 9.8 WATARRKA Alice Springs NT -7.2 13.3 WITTENOOM W Pilbara WA -7.0 11.9 MANDORA E Pilbara WA -6.0 11.0 GILES METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE Interior WA -5.8 8.0 GYMPIE Brisbane/SE Coast QLD |
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy
Mtns NSW: 102 (330/ 76 ) at 00:00 |
Other extremes .. |