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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 trough is producing a few showers over southwestern SA.

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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