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WA heatwave exits stage right
Lightning starts bushfire near Albany WA
Maximum temperatures today (above) and their departures from normal (below). BoM
Below: Minimum temperature departures from normal this morning. BoM

WA heatwave exits stage right

The mass of hot air that has drifted into southern WA on a northeasterly airstream over the past week began to move eastwards today, with the trough along the WA west coast that caused the northeasterlies drawn eastwards by a passing Southern Ocean cold front. As a result, November heat records fell at at least five SE WA locations including Esperance, Ravensthorpe and Salmon Gums, all of which exceeded 42°. Farther east, Hopetoun North and Eyre both recorded around 44.5. Overnight minima across much of the south of the state were 10 to 14° above the November average, with new records for high November minima set at Lake Grace (24.9, previous 24.7 in 39 years of record) and Mount Barker (20.3, 17.8, 32).

In the state's north, relatively cooler, moister conditions have led to thunderstorms, one at Fitzroy Crossing this evening yielding 24mm in under an hour. The run of early season heat in this area also came to an end today. It has been an unusually prolonged period, with 26 of the past 28 days reaching 40 or above at Halls Creek. Storms were also widespread across the NT top End again today.

Lightning starts bushfire near Albany WA

Lightning strikes ignited a bushfire in the Torndirrup National Park on the peninsula south of Albany WA around 1.30am. The fire burnt through about 400 hectares of bushland before being brought under control this evening.

News sources: Great Southern Weekender

National weather extremes for today
Data provided by the Bureau of Meteorology

Records set this day (previous record and years of computerised record shown in brackets):
Highest daily maximum temperature for November
Western Australia:
009789 ESPERANCE 42.7 (42.1, 34)
010633 RAVENSTHORPE 42.1 (41.0, 41)
011017 BALLADONIA 43.1 (43.0, 37)
011019 EYRE 44.4 (42.5, 16)
012071 SALMON GUMS RES.STN. 42.4 (42.1, 32)

Quality control note: Data is final. It includes late-received rainfall data and has been subject to BoM quality control checks.
Data is as received at 13:38EST, 03/03/2004.

Weather observations for today
Noteworthy  Weather         Capital  Cities         Regional  Cities       Alpine  Stations
Bureau of Meteorology Rainfall Bulletins and Weather Notes

Hottest
Highest maximum temperature>Greatest variation above normal maximum Highest minimum temperatureGreatest variation above normal minimum

44.5 HOPETOUN NORTH Lower West WA
44.4 EYRE Eucla WA
43.1 BALLADONIA Eucla WA
43.1 CHEADANUP Goldfields WA
42.7 ESPERANCE Lower West WA

+20.3   44.4 EYRE Eucla WA
+19.7   42.7 ESPERANCE Lower West WA
+18.5   42.3 EUCLA Eucla WA
+17.4   42.1 RAVENSTHORPE Cent Wheatbelt WA
+16.3   42.4 SALMON GUMS RES.STN. Goldfields WA

29.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR Islands ISL
27.5 ROEBOURNE E Pilbara WA
27.5 LEINSTER AERO Goldfields WA
27.2 MEEKATHARRA AIRPORT E Gascoyne WA
27.2 LEONORA Goldfields WA

+13.7   23.7 KATANNING COMPARISON Cent Wheatbelt WA
+13.6   24.9 LAKE GRACE COMPARISON Cent Wheatbelt WA
+12.2   22.6 ONGERUP Cent Wheatbelt WA
+12.0   22.4 WAGIN Cent Wheatbelt WA
+11.9   24.8 MERREDIN Cent Wheatbelt WA

Coldest
Lowest maximum temperatureGreatest variation below normal maximum Lowest minimum temperatureGreatest variation below normal minimum

11.8 KATOOMBA (NARROW NECK RD) C Tablelands S NSW
12.6 MOUNT BOYCE AWS C Tablelands S NSW
13.4 NULLO MOUNTAIN AWS C Tablelands N NSW
13.7 OBERON (JENOLAN CAVES ROAD) C Tablelands S NSW
14.0 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS

-8.3   11.8 KATOOMBA (NARROW NECK RD) C Tablelands S NSW
-7.8   17.0 TENTERFIELD (FEDERATION PARK) N Tablelands W NSW
-7.5   17.6 TABULAM (MUIRNE) N Tablelands E NSW
-7.2   31.0 TIMBER CREEK N Rivers NT
-6.9   22.9 CASINO AIRPORT North Coast NSW

-3.9 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW
-3.1 LIAWENEE Central Plateau TAS
-1.7 ROSS (THE BOULEVARDS) Midlands TAS
-1.6 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS
-1.3 LAKE ST CLAIR NATIONAL PARK Central Plateau TAS

-7.3   2.8 FLINDERS ISLAND AIRPORT Flinders Is/Bass St TAS
-6.9   4.0 COROWA AIRPORT Riverina E NSW
-6.4   2.2 RUTHERGLEN RESEARCH Lower NE VIC
-6.1   3.2 NHILL Wimmera N VIC
-5.7   -3.9 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW
-5.7   1.2 FINGAL (LEGGE STREET) E Coast TAS
Wettest Major City Extremes
Todays highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am. It includes the top 5 totals nationally followed by all reported falls of 50mm or more.

60.6 MARANBOY HILL N Rivers NT
52.0 MOUNT MAWSON Derwent Valley TAS
49.0 NGUIU FARM N Rivers NT
47.0 WARMUN E Kimberley WA
41.4 MCCLUER ISLAND N Rivers NT

WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    E Kimberley
47.0 WARMUN

NORTHERN TERRITORY
    N Rivers
60.6 MARANBOY HILL
49.0 NGUIU FARM
41.4 MCCLUER ISLAND

TASMANIA
    Derwent Valley
52.0 MOUNT MAWSON

  Max+/- norm Min+/- normRain to 9am
BROOME AIRPORT 31.6 -1.9 25.9 +0.9 0.0
ALBANY AIRPORT 23.7 +2.9 17.6 +7.0 1.8
PERTH AIRPORT 23.8 -1.8 19.3 +6.7 0.0
KALGOORLIE-BOULDER AIRPORT 41.1 +12.2 24.8 +10.8 0.0
DARWIN AIRPORT 33.5 +0.3 24.8 -0.5 0.0
ALICE SPRINGS AIRPORT 36.9 +3.3 16.6 -1.2 0.0
ADELAIDE (KENT TOWN) 31.6 +7.0 15.6 +1.8 0.0
MOUNT GAMBIER AERO 25.8 +5.7 4.3 -3.9 0.0
CAIRNS AERO 31.9 +1.3 21.9 -0.4 1.0
TOWNSVILLE AERO 30.6 -0.1 20.1 -2.7 0.0
ROCKHAMPTON AERO 29.8 -1.4 19.0 -0.4 0.0
AMBERLEY AMO 25.4 -4.1 19.2 +2.9 0.4
BRISBANE AERO 25.2 19.1 0.0
ARMIDALE AIRPORT AWS 19.3 10.9 0.0
COFFS HARBOUR MO 24.1 -0.8 17.7 +1.7 0.0
NEWCASTLE NOBBYS SIGNAL STATION AWS 19.4 -4.2 15.9 -0.2 0.0
SYDNEY (OBSERVATORY HILL) 18.7 -4.9 16.0 +0.5 0.0
PROSPECT DAM 18.7 -6.4 14.5 +0.4 0.0
WOLLONGONG UNIVERSITY 19.5 -3.3 13.5 -0.9 0.6
CANBERRA AIRPORT 22.9 +0.4 7.0 -1.6 0.0
WAGGA WAGGA AMO 27.7 +2.3 10.4 -0.1 0.0
MILDURA AIRPORT 31.1 +3.9 9.9 -2.4 0.0
EAST SALE AIRPORT 20.1 -0.9 6.1 -3.3 0.0
MELBOURNE REGIONAL OFFICE 22.7 +0.9 12.3 +1.2 0.0
LAVERTON RAAF 22.8 +1.5 11.4 +1.5 0.0
BALLARAT AERODROME 22.3 +2.9 6.7 -1.0 0.0
LAUNCESTON AIRPORT 19.1 +0.4 1.8 -5.3 0.0
HOBART (ELLERSLIE ROAD) 19.5 +0.9 6.1 -3.1 0.2

Downpours Gales & Gusts
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. Highest wind gusts above 89km/h (storm force) or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    W Kimberley
FITZROY CROSSING AERO
24.0mm in 52 min to 19:50 27.7mm/h
27.0mm in 3 hr to 21:00 9.0mm/h
     SW & S Coast
HOPETOUN NORTH
10.6mm in 50 min to 18:50 12.7mm/h
11.8mm in 1 hr to 19:00 11.8mm/h
17.0mm in 3 hr to 21:00 5.7mm/h
 NORTHERN TERRITORY
    Darwin-Daly
CAPE DON
15.0mm in 3 hr to 16:00 5.0mm/h
16.0mm in 3 hr to 17:00 5.3mm/h
MCCLUER ISLAND
38.0mm in 3 hr to 06:00 12.7mm/h
     Arnhem
WARRUWI
15.0mm in 3 hr to 03:00 5.0mm/h
ELCHO ISLAND
21.0mm in 3 hr to 09:00 7.0mm/h
NGAYAWILI
19.0mm in 3 hr to 09:00 6.3mm/h
GROOTE EYLANDT AIRPORT AWS
12.8mm in 1 hr to 14:30 12.8mm/h
     Roper-McArthur
WOLLOGORANG
46.0mm in 3 hr to 18:00 15.3mm/h
     Victoria
TIMBER CREEK
15.0mm in 3 hr to 09:00 5.0mm/h
 ISLANDS
    Islands
LORD HOWE ISLAND AERO
10.2mm in 1 hr to 04:00 10.2mm/h

WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    Goldfields
NORSEMAN AERO : 85(320/ 72 ) at 14:55
QUEENSLAND
    Brisbane/SE Coast
CAPE MORETON LIGHTHOUSE : 72(140/ 63 ) at 17:00
VICTORIA
    W Gippsland
WILSONS PROMONTORY LIGHTHOUSE : 70(240/ 63 ) at 00:00