Australian Weather News |
Wednesday, 12 DEC 2001 |
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It was a cold day under heavy
cloud cover in the WA Goldfields, Eucla and NE Interior regions today,
with top temperatures barely making it into the low 20s. Leonora's
maximum of 19.1 was 16.3° below the December norm, while Yeelirrie's
top of 20 was 16 below, though the temperature rose to 23 by 9am Thursday
morning making the official 24-hour maximum a little higher.
Scattered heavy storms gave some heavy falls in Queensland and the Northern Territory. In Queensland, Mackay received its second downpour in two days when 24.6mm fell in half an hour to 7pm. Collinsville, 150km NW, recorded 56mm from a storm sometime between 9am and 3pm. In the Northern Territory, heavy falls included 68mm in 3 hours to 3pm at Dum In Mirrie and 18.2mm in 12 minutes to 4pm at Batchelor |
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. 103.0 ZATTAS ALERT N Coast--Herbert
QLD |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. |
Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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Maximum | Minimum |
43.0 JULIA CREEK AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD 43.0 RICHMOND AIRPORT Upper Carpentaria QLD 42.3 CLONCURRY AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD 41.9 RICHMOND POST OFFICE Upper Carpentaria QLD 41.0 HUGHENDEN AIRPORT Upper Carpentaria QLD |
29.7 CENTRE ISLAND Roper-McArthur NT 29.1 SWEERS ISLAND Gulf Country QLD 28.4 KURI BAY N Kimberley WA 28.0 ALVA BEACH Central Coast E QLD 27.9 BORROLOOLA Roper-McArthur NT |
9.3 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 12.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC 12.0 LOOKOUT HILL Western Plains VIC 12.5 DUNNS HILL E Central VIC 13.0 MAATSUYKER ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE Southeast TAS |
-2.5 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW -1.5 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS -1.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW -1.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
Maximum | Minimum |
+6.0 35.5 GERALDTON AIRPORT Central West WA +4.7 35.7 KALBARRI Central West WA +4.7 31.9 LANCELIN Lower West WA +4.6 38.6 BARALABA POST OFFICE Wide Bay/Burnett QLD +4.4 36.5 INGHAM COMPOSITE N Coast--Herbert QLD |
+5.9 26.7 CLERMONT POST OFFICE Central Highlands
QLD +5.2 26.3 COLLINSVILLE POST OFFICE Central Coast E QLD +4.6 22.0 KALBARRI Central West WA +4.4 25.3 MORANBAH WATER TREATMENT PLANT Central Coast W QLD +3.5 25.9 RICHMOND POST OFFICE Upper Carpentaria QLD +3.5 25.4 INNISFAIL N Coast--Herbert QLD +3.5 25.2 ST LAWRENCE POST OFFICE Central Coast E QLD |
-16.3 19.1 LEONORA Goldfields WA -13.3 17.5 BALGAIR Eucla WA -12.9 23.2 YEELIRRIE Goldfields WA -11.4 25.4 WILUNA Interior WA -9.5 29.4 BALGO HILLS Interior WA |
-9.2 4.5 WAGGA WAGGA AMO SW Slopes S NSW -8.3 6.5 QUANDIALLA POST OFFICE SW Slopes N NSW -7.8 7.0 EDINBURGH RAAF Adelaide Plains SA -7.7 8.5 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. MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS:
74 (220/ 63 ) at 00:00 |
Other extremes .. |