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Current Warnings
 

Northern Territory Forecast

  • Sunday Hot and humid. Showers and storms in north. Isolated showers and storms in south.

  • Monday Hot and humid. Showers and storms Top End. The odd shower and storm elsewhere.

  • Tuesday Hot to very hot. Thunderstorms over central and northern parts.

  • Wednesday Rain & gusty winds in the north, storms elsewhere. Very hot in the southeast, mild in northeast.

  • Thursday Thunderstorms and heavy rain over the Top End . Thundery showers across central parts.

NT Extremes and Records

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

33.4°C

Jervois
Hottest

39.5°C

Kulgera

39.0°C

Jervois

39.0°C

Jervois

40.5°C

Kulgera

24.2°C

Cape Wessel
Coldest

22.9°C

Douglas River

17.0°C

Kulgera

22.0°C

Kulgera

17.0°C

Kulgera

W 24km/h

Point Stuart
Windiest

50km/h

Tindal

66km/h

Cape Wessel

62km/h

Kintore
-
no rain last hr Wettest

80.2mm

Dum In Mirrie

75.8mm

Channel Point

53.0mm

Yuendumu

53.0mm

Yuendumu
Northern Territory's Records for January
Max Min Rain
Highest 48.3°C at
Finke in 1960
Lowest 16.0°C at
Kulgera in 1983
Highest 33.7°C at
Jervois in 2006
Lowest 6.7°C at
Tempe Downs in 1970
Highest 507.5mm at
Yirrkala Mission in 1958

Northern Territory 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 %
Possible thunderstorm
25 30 90% 20-40mm Nil W 13 77 WNW 25 70
Thunderstorms
24 33 90% 10-20mm Nil WNW 14 79 W 14 64
Thunderstorms
25 31 90% 20-40mm Nil WNW 18 85 WNW 18 80
Possible thunderstorm
25 35 90% 5-10mm Nil - - - -
Possible thunderstorm
24 35 90% 1-5mm Nil W 8 69 ESE 8 45
Possible thunderstorm
25 36 80% 5-10mm Nil NNE 10 56 ENE 7 40
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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.