Australian Weather News |
Friday, 28 DEC 2001 |
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An early afternoon storm swept over northeastern suburbs of Darwin today, dropping over 50mm of rain and causing flash flooding. The airport recorded 43mm between noon and 3pm, most falling in less than one hour. Nearly continuous lightning accompanied the storm, and caused damage to the airport runway. |
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. 66.0 JABIRU AIRPORT Darwin-Daly
NT |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. |
Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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Maximum | Minimum |
42.0 CAMOOWEAL TOWNSHIP Northwest QLD 41.7 BRUNETTE DOWNS Barkly NT 41.7 CLONCURRY AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD 41.0 JULIA CREEK AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD 41.0 BURKETOWN AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD 41.0 RICHMOND POST OFFICE Upper Carpentaria QLD 41.0 RICHMOND AIRPORT Upper Carpentaria QLD |
29.3 MORNINGTON ISLAND Gulf Country QLD 29.0 DUM IN MIRRIE Darwin-Daly NT 29.0 CAPE FOURCROY Islands 28.1 HORN ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 28.1 GREEN ISLAND N Coast--Barron QLD |
9.5 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 9.6 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 11.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 11.0 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 12.9 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC |
-0.5 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 0.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC 1.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 1.1 GOULBURN AIRPORT AWS Goulburn/Monaro NSW 1.4 WOOLBROOK (DANGLEMAH ROAD) NW Slopes S NSW |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
Maximum | Minimum |
+8.7 33.4 EUCLA Eucla WA +8.7 35.0 NULLARBOR ROADHOUSE W Agricultural SA +6.6 34.6 WHYALLA AERO W Agricultural SA +5.9 34.5 YARRAS (MOUNT SEAVIEW) MidNorth Coast S NSW +5.8 33.0 CEDUNA AMO W Agricultural SA |
+6.0 19.9 PINGELLY Gt Southern WA +5.8 26.6 CLERMONT POST OFFICE Central Highlands QLD +5.5 18.2 RAVENSTHORPE Gt Southern WA +5.0 26.1 COLLINSVILLE POST OFFICE Central Coast E QLD +4.8 26.5 ST LAWRENCE POST OFFICE Central Coast E QLD |
-7.9 20.4 KARNET Lower West WA -7.1 25.0 BADGINGARRA RESEARCH STN Lower West WA -7.1 20.0 DWELLINGUP FORESTRY SW & S Coast WA -6.8 31.0 MARDIE W Pilbara WA -6.4 21.7 DONNYBROOK SW & S Coast WA |
-9.0 1.4 WOOLBROOK (DANGLEMAH ROAD) NW Slopes S
NSW -8.7 9.7 MITCHELL POST OFFICE Maranoa QLD -8.6 4.6 COONABARABRAN (NAMOI STREET) CW Slopes N NSW -8.5 5.2 MURRURUNDI POST OFFICE Hunter Valley NSW -8.5 3.0 EDI UPPER Upper NE VIC |
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. None reported |
Other extremes .. |