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Tasmanian Weather

Current Warnings
 

Tasmania Forecast

  • Saturday Dry and mostly sunny throughout. Warm throughout.

  • Sunday Hot in the east. Cloud increasing during the day. Warm in the south. Mostly dry.

  • Monday Rain crossing most parts, with gusty SW'ly winds. Mild in the southwest, warm in the northeast.

  • Tuesday Cloudy day with rain developing later. Cool along the coast with easterly winds.

Tas Extremes and Records

Extremes and Records
Current Extremes   Last 3 Days Extremes Extremes This Month
Wed 21/12 Thu 22/12 Fri 23/12

22.0°C

Flinders Island
Hottest

22.8°C

Friendly Beach

26.8°C

Ross

30.0°C

Bushy Park

31.1°C

Friendly Beach

12.3°C

Maatsuyker Is
Coldest

1.0°C

Mt Wellington

4.0°C

Butlers Gorge

15.0°C

Burnie

-2.8°C

Mt Wellington

ESE 44km/h

Cape Grim
Windiest

98km/h

Mt Wellington

64km/h

Maatsuyker Is

57km/h

Cape Grim
-
no rain last hr Wettest

12.4mm

Mt Read

0.2mm

Tim Shea

0.2mm

Low Rocky Point

0.0mm

Burnie
Tasmania's Records for December
Max Min Rain
Highest 40.6°C at
Hobart in 1897
Lowest -0.1°C at
Mt Wellington in 1964
Highest 23.9°C at
Hobart in 1920
Lowest -5.0°C at
Mount Barrow in 1969
Highest 202.0mm at
Mt Wellington in 1995

Tasmania Observations

Latest Observations
Station
(Ungroup by district)
Time Wind dir Wind spd Wind gust Tmp Dew pt Feels like RH Fire Rain Pres
km/h km/h °C °C °C % mm hPa
09:00 EDT
ESE 44 54 19.8 14.1 19.8 70 6 0.0 1012.6
09:10 EDT
SSE 7 7 18.2 10.6 18.2 61 3 0.0 1014.3
09:10 EDT
NNE 7 9 18.5 12.8 18.5 69 3 0.0 1014.9
09:10 EDT
ENE 9 11 20.5 11.2 20.5 55 5 0.0 -
09:10 EDT
E 7 9 18.8 8.2 18.8 50 5 0.0 1016.4
09:10 EDT
ESE 7 9 18.9 15.0 18.9 78 2 0.0 -
09:10 EDT
SSW 7 9 21.7 13.6 21.7 60 4 0.0 -
09:10 EDT
E 39 44 19.7 16.3 19.7 81 4 0.0 1011.1
09:10 EDT
E 17 20 22.2 17.1 22.2 73 3 0.0 1012.6
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Weather News

Broome swamped in wettest December on record

16:33 EDT

A tropical low pressure system has combined with Cyclone Yvette to dump more than 200 millimetres of rain on Broome.

Detailed Christmas Day forecast

12:21 EDT

Intense heat, thunderstorms, flooding rain and damaging winds are all on the cards for Christmas Day this year.

SA Government declares 'code red' for homeless during hot spell, shelters to stay open longer

12:08 EDT

South Australia's homeless services will be boosted over the Christmas period as a result of forecast extreme heat over the next few days.