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Thick cloud over WA with a tropical low and associated trough is triggering showers, storms and areas of heavy rain. Cloud over the far north with a broad region of low pressure is causing a few storms. Skies are clearer in the south under a ridge of high pressure.

In the news

  1. Regrowth slow in fire-ravaged WHA

    A year after raging bushfires swept through parts of Tasmania's Wilderness World Heritage Areas, parts of the landscape show no signs of recovery.

  2. BOM three-month outlook

    Rainfall is likely to be below average in much of eastern Australia from February to April, the Bureau of Meteorology says.

  3. Daly River grieves drownings

    Communities in the NT's Daly River region are mourning the deaths of three people who drowned after a four-wheel drive was swept into a fast-flowing river.

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Posted November 15, 2013 15:10:10

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