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Colder showery change moving through southern states
Brett Dutschke, Sunday April 30, 2017 - 16:08 EST
A front is bringing a colder showery change to southern Australia, dropping temperatures by five-to-10 degrees.
The change is already affecting Western Australia's southwest. By early afternoon Manjimup had only reached 16.4 degrees, five degrees below average and almost 10 degrees colder than yesterday's balmy 25.8.
As far as showers go, it has been fairly light, three millimetres being the highest official rainfall recorded, at Bridgetown.
During the next few days the change will make its way across the rest of southern Australia, bringing similar cooling and rainfall.
An exception will be Tasmania, where temperatures will struggle past 10 degrees. After basking in a beaut 20 degrees on Monday afternoon, Hobart will chill in 11-12 degree temperatures 24 hours later.
For other southern capitals, the coolest days will only warm to about 17 degrees in Adelaide, about 15 degrees in Melbourne and about 16 degrees in Canberra.
Sydney can expect a temperature drop of five-to-six degrees between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon. Much of Wednesday will only be about 17 degrees in the city due to cooler southerly winds and showery cloud.
In terms of rainfall, most places will only see five millimetres or less. However, on the NSW coast, extra moisture bring the potential for more than 20mm.
The only southern capital to escape the cooling cloud is Perth, warming to the mid twenties early in the week and high twenties mid week.
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