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Areas of cloud over the tropics with an active monsoon trough is generating thunderstorms. Cloud over western WA, much of NSW and central QLD with troughs is producing the odd storm. Low cloud about south coasts in onshore winds is bringing patches of drizzle.

In the news

  1. Christchurch bushfire

    Eleven homes burn down and a state of emergency is declared as a raging New Zealand bushfire heads into its fourth day.

  2. Firebug a possibility in Hobart

    The fire on Hobart's eastern shore which took three hours to control may have been deliberately lit, officials say.

  3. Livestock rescued from floods

    WA farmers are doing all they can to save hundreds of stranded livestock after floods.

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Posted November 15, 2013 15:10:10

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