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Current Warnings
 

New South Wales/ACT Forecast

  • Sunday Hot in west with the odd storm in northwest. Mild in NE with light showers. Warm, dry elsewhere.

  • Monday Warm in NE, light early showers. Hot elsewhere. Showers and storms in the west.

  • Tuesday Widespread thunderstorms and showers. Hot to very hot before a cool change from SW.

  • Wednesday Band of showers and storms moving norteastwards. Very hot in the north, mild along the south coast.

  • Thursday Rain & possible storms about and W of the ranges. Mostly dry in the far south and southwest.

NSW/ACT Extremes and Records

Extremes and Records
Current Extremes   Last 3 Days Extremes Extremes This Month
Thu 19/01 Fri 20/01 Sat 21/01

35.6°C

Bourke Ap
Hottest

42.6°C

Lightning Ridge

40.2°C

Mungindi

38.0°C

Mungindi

46.9°C

Wanaaring

16.4°C

Thredbo Top Station
Coldest

8.3°C

Mt Ginini

2.5°C

Thredbo Village

2.0°C

Perisher Valley

-1.9°C

Perisher Valley

S 31km/h

Windy Point
Windiest

112km/h

Thredbo Top Station

111km/h

Thredbo Top Station

66km/h

Green Cape
-
no rain last hr Wettest

28.6mm

Angledool

57.2mm

Quirindi

2.0mm

Yamba

10.0mm

Tabulam
New South Wales/ACT's Records for January
Max Min Rain
Highest 49.7°C at
Bourke in 1878
Lowest 1.3°C at
Thredbo Top Station in 2012
Highest 34.4°C at
Gunnedah in 1905
Lowest -7.7°C at
Thredbo Top Station in 1975
Highest 436.0mm at
Bellingen PO in 1997

New South Wales/ACT Weather Forecasts

Station
(ungroup by district)
Forecast Min Max Chance of rain Rain amount Frost risk 9am 3pm
Wind RH Wind RH
°C °C km/h % km/h %
Increasing sunshine
20 27 5% < 1mm Nil SSE 9 54 E 27 49
Cloudy
19 29 50% < 1mm Nil S 10 75 SE 21 57
Mostly sunny
20 28 50% < 1mm Nil SSW 11 73 SE 13 65
Increasing sunshine
20 25 5% < 1mm Nil SE 8 59 ESE 23 48
Increasing sunshine
18 25 5% < 1mm Nil SSE 7 69 ENE 19 67
Sunny
12 29 5% < 1mm Nil - - - -
Mostly sunny
12 29 5% < 1mm Nil E 22 75 ESE 17 44
Sunny
10 28 5% < 1mm Nil ENE 20 73 NNE 12 39
Increasing sunshine
12 32 5% < 1mm Nil ENE 8 68 N 14 28
Sunny
10 22 10% < 1mm Nil NNE 12 67 WNW 12 52
Sunny
16 34 5% < 1mm Nil ESE 15 51 SSW 10 30
Sunny
16 33 5% < 1mm Nil E 27 61 NE 12 35
Sunny
14 36 5% < 1mm Nil NE 19 50 NNE 14 21
Sunny
16 34 10% < 1mm Nil ENE 20 57 NNE 12 20
Sunny
21 40 10% < 1mm Nil E 19 45 ENE 12 20
Sunny
15 35 5% < 1mm Nil ESE 15 35 ESE 9 16
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Weather News

Heating up across the southeastern capitals

11:19 EDT

A couple of scorchers are on the way for Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney over the next few days.

Darwin not quite that wet (yet)

11:13 EDT

Following a good start to January 2017 rainfall, when 125mm fell during the first 48 hours of the year, conditions have been relatively dry for the Northern Territory capital.

Steamy night in Brisbane

14:29 EDT

In the early hours of the morning, Brisbane had its warmest minimum temperature since at least 1999, when the mercury halted its descent at 28 degrees just after 3am.