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Australia Satellite Notes

Cloud over the NT and north QLD is spiraling around a low, generating heavy rain and storms. Cloud over western margins of WA and central/southern QLD is causing showers and storms. Cloud over VIC and TAS near a front and low is bringing showers, small hail and highland snow.

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At Darwin Ap

08:10 CST

This morning

27°C

Today

34°C

Mostly sunny

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Weather News

BOM warns cyclone expected to form from tropical low over Gulf of Carpentaria

09:03 EDT

There is a high chance a tropical low that has been threatening for days to intensify into a cyclone in the Gulf of Carpentaria will finally do so today, the Bureau of Meteorology has said.

NSW emergency service cranks up campaign to stop people driving into floodwater

08:44 EDT

Emergency services are frustrated by people making bad decisions when faced with floodwater, as recent studies on flood deaths show young men and children are the most at-risk of dying.

NSW weather: Storm hits Hunter and Central Coast, BOM predicts heavy rainfall and winds

00:06 EDT

Severe thunderstorms that ravaged the Hunter region and the Central Coast of New South Wales are over, the Bureau of Meteorology says, but Ausgrid and SES volunteers are still working to repair the damage.