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Cloud over NSW and QLD with a low pressure trough and moist onshore winds is generating heavy showers and thunderstorms. Thick cloud over the tropics with a monsoon trough is causing showers and storms. A cold front is producing a few showers about the WA/SA border.

In the news

  1. Storm warning for northern NSW

    Residents in northern New South Wales are warned of severe thunderstorms with the potential to cause flash flooding, after a weekend of wild weather.

  2. WA sea rescuers use drone

    The first test of drone technology to rescue people at sea off Western Australia is hailed a success by volunteers in the Great Southern.

  3. Teen bitten by crocodile

    A teenager is seriously injured in a crocodile attack in Innisfail in far north Queensland overnight.

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Posted November 15, 2013 15:10:10

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