Australian Weather News |
Thursday, 27 DEC 2001 |
NSW
bushfires continue Record cold in the southeast Downpour in Central Australia |
See special
report on the NSW bushfires.
Cold, dry southern air surging across Tasmania, Victoria and southern NSW yesterday allowed temperatures to drop to record levels overnight. Albury, Tocumwal, Narrandera and Wangaratta all reported their lowest minimum temperatures on record for December this morning, with temperatures 6 to 9° below normal across northern Victoria and southern inland NSW. Frost was widespread on the NSW Southwest Slopes and Southern Tablelands and in Victoria's Northeast, with Cooma Airport recording a low of -3.5. Thunderstorms gave Giles Met Office, just over the WA border west of Alice Springs, their December average monthly rainfall in a few hours. 20.2mm fell in 23 minutes to 9.47pm in the first storm, and a second early on Friday morning topped up the 24 hour total to 38mm. |
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 maximum temperature for December: Heron Island Res Stn Qld: 33.1 (32.8, 21) Lowest daily minimum temperature for December: Albury Airport NSW: 5.0 (5.3, 18) Tocumwal Airport NSW: 5.1 (5.9, 31) Narrandera Golf Club NSW: 4.4 (4.5, 32) Wangaratta Airport Vic: 0.9 (2.6, 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. 84.0 PALMERVILLE S Peninsula
QLD |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. |
Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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Maximum | Minimum |
42.6 TELFER AERO Interior WA 42.0 CLONCURRY AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD 42.0 RICHMOND AIRPORT Upper Carpentaria QLD 41.6 CARNEGIE Interior WA 41.6 BRUNETTE DOWNS Barkly NT |
29.8 BALGO HILLS Interior WA 29.5 ALYANGULA POLICE Arnhem NT 29.5 CENTRE ISLAND Roper-McArthur NT 29.5 ARCHERFIELD AIRPORT Brisbane/SE Coast QLD 29.1 ELCHO ISLAND Arnhem NT 29.1 SWEERS ISLAND Gulf Country QLD |
3.4 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 4.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC 6.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 7.2 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC 7.4 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS |
-4.2 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC -4.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW -3.8 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC -3.5 COOMA AIRPORT AWS Goulburn/Monaro NSW -3.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
Maximum | Minimum |
+7.4 39.0 PROSERPINE AIRPORT Central Coast E QLD +7.4 39.4 ROCKHAMPTON AERO Wide Bay/Burnett QLD +7.1 40.6 COLLINSVILLE POST OFFICE Central Coast E QLD +6.9 36.0 BUNDABERG AERO Wide Bay/Burnett QLD +6.5 39.9 MORANBAH WATER TREATMENT PLANT Central Coast W QLD |
+10.7 29.5 ARCHERFIELD AIRPORT Brisbane/SE Coast
QLD +6.5 24.7 PAYNES FIND Murchison WA +5.2 27.0 PROSERPINE AIRPORT Central Coast E QLD +4.8 28.0 BOWEN AIRPORT Central Coast E QLD +4.7 29.8 BALGO HILLS Interior WA +4.7 22.4 NORFOLK ISLAND AERO Islands |
-10.2 4.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC -8.6 20.2 BENALLA (SHADFORTH STREET) Lower NE VIC -8.2 22.0 COROWA AIRPORT Riverina E NSW -8.1 6.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW -8.0 16.7 STRATHBOGIE Lower NE VIC -8.0 20.8 WANGARATTA AERO Lower NE VIC |
-10.8 0.9 WANGARATTA AERO Lower NE VIC -10.7 4.4 NARRANDERA GOLF CLUB Riverina E NSW -10.4 0.6 NERRIGA COMPOSITE South Coast NSW -10.4 1.0 RUTHERGLEN RESEARCH Lower NE VIC -9.9 3.8 WAGGA WAGGA AMO SW 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. CENTRE ISLAND Roper-McArthur NT : 91 (120/ 76 ) at 21:27 |
Other extremes Flood peak: |