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Australia Satellite Notes

Thick cloud in the tropics in an active monsoon is generating heavy rain and storms. Thick cloud over VIC and eastern SA with a low pressure trough is triggering showers and storms, some severe. Cloud along the NSW coast in moist onshore winds is bringing showers.

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Now Temperature

At Darwin Ap

15:40 CST

Today

32°C

Tonight

25°C

Possible thunderstorm

possible_thunderstorm

Weather News

Southern storms

17:09 EDT

Severe thunderstorm warnings have been issued for parts of South Australia and Victoria this afternoon.

Tasmanian floods: BOM and SES lashed by farmers over weather warnings amid June deluge

17:04 EDT

Forecasting by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and SES phone alerts during flooding in Tasmania last June have been criticised as inadequate.

North, central Queensland passenger rail down after heavy rain

16:54 EDT

There are major disruptions for rail passengers in central Queensland after large sections of the track were damaged following days of torrential rain.