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New South Wales/ACT Weather

NSW/ACT
Sat 22:00 EST
Current Warnings
 

New South Wales/ACT Forecast

  • Sunday Mild to warm and mostly dry throughout. Light winds.

  • Monday Showers with a cool change in the far south later. Mostly dry and warm elsewhere.

  • Tuesday Showers in south and east, the odd storm. Cool in the south grading mild in the north.

  • Wednesday Showers over coast and ranges with gusty winds. Alpine snow showers. Mild and dry in west.

NSW/ACT Extremes and Records

Extremes and Records
Current Extremes   Last 3 Days Extremes Extremes This Month
Thu 27/04 Fri 28/04 Sat 29/04

20.8°C

Lord Howe Is Ap
Hottest

23.1°C

Forster

26.1°C

Menindee

25.0°C

Grafton

34.4°C

Bourke Ap

-0.3°C

Perisher Valley
Coldest

-5.8°C

Perisher Valley

-3.4°C

Perisher Valley
 

-6.1°C

Thredbo Top Station

SW 33km/h

Windy Point
Windiest

74km/h

Wattamolla

75km/h

Cape Byron

55km/h

Green Cape
-
no rain last hr Wettest

26.2mm

Smiths Lake

11.2mm

Cape Byron
 

85.0mm

Rockley
New South Wales/ACT's Records for April
Max Min Rain
Highest 41.7°C at
Deniliquin in 1875
Lowest -5.6°C at
Thredbo Top Station in 1978
Highest 26.2°C at
White Cliffs in 2005
Lowest -13.0°C at
Charlotte Pass in 2009
Highest 404.6mm at
Coffs Harbour in 1963

New South Wales/ACT Observations

Latest Observations
Station
(Ungroup by district)
Time Wind dir Wind spd Wind gust Tmp Dew pt Feels like RH Fire Rain Pres
km/h km/h °C °C °C % mm hPa
01:40 EST
WNW 17 20 15.1 10.5 15.1 74 2 0.0 1021.4
01:40 EST
WSW 11 13 11.4 10.6 10.1 95 1 0.0 1021.0
01:40 EST
- 0 0 10.3 9.2 11.0 93 1 0.0 1022.8
01:40 EST
ENE 9 9 4.4 3.7 2.2 95 1 0.2 1022.0
01:40 EST
SSE 11 11 3.1 2.5 0.2 96 1 0.0 1022.8
01:40 EST
N 6 7 4.2 4.1 2.8 99 1 0.0 1023.2
01:40 EST
ESE 22 28 5.0 4.1 0.8 94 1 0.0 -
01:40 EST
SE 11 11 6.9 5.1 4.7 88 1 0.0 1021.0
01:40 EST
S 9 11 8.1 6.7 6.6 91 1 0.0 1021.7
01:40 EST
- 0 4 9.0 8.5 9.0 97 1 0.0 1022.8
01:40 EST
- 0 0 8.6 8.4 8.6 99 1 0.0 1022.2
01:40 EST
S 15 17 12.8 6.2 11.4 64 3 0.0 1021.8
01:10 EST
- 0 0 8.3 5.2 8.3 81 1 0.0 1023.5

Now Temperature

At Gold Coast

01:40 EST

This morning

13°C

Today

26°C

Mostly sunny

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Weather News

Fog and low cloud glooming southern Australia

14:41 EST

Large areas of southern Australia can expect a foggy start to the next few mornings, reducing visibility for the first few hours, even in the southeastern capitals.

Dry taste for tropics

11:51 EST

The strongest southeasterly wind surge since last Dry Season has swept out any lingering sticky humidity from the summer over a large swathe of the central and eastern tropics.

BOM predicts a less destructive South Australian coastal storm season this year

18:26 EST

As the mercury plummets across South Australia ahead of winter, coastal properties are preparing for the inevitable storm surges.