Australian Weather
National Summary
An approaching trough and onshore winds are generating showers for western SA. A front in the south is triggering showers and the odd storm over southern VIC and TAS. Onshore winds are producing cloud and light showers in QLD. Mostly clear elsewhere under a high.
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Weather News
Murray-Darling Basin Plan: Irrigation lobbyists offered access to confidential government documents
07:05 EST
The top water bureaucrat in NSW, Gavin Hanlon, has been secretly recorded offering to confidentially share internal government information with irrigation lobbyists — documents he proposed to strip of government logos and share via a special Dropbox account — to assist their lobbying against the contentious Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
Murray-Darling Basin Plan: Taxpayer-purchased water intended for rivers harvested by irrigators
07:04 EST
Billions of litres of water purchased by taxpayers to save Australia's inland rivers are instead being harvested by some irrigators to boost cotton-growing operations, in a policy failure that threatens to undermine the $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
Western Queensland drought leaves graziers facing more impossible choices
18:11 EST
For the first time in four years western Queensland sheep grazier Peter Clark has lambs in his flock, but as drought maintains its stranglehold on the region he may still be forced into another heart-wrenching stock reduction.
Extremes and Records
| Current Extremes | Last 3 Days Extremes | Extremes This Month | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 22/07 | Sun 23/07 | Mon 24/07 | |||
|
27.6°C Cape Wessel, NT |
Hottest |
34.0°C Point Stuart, NT |
35.0°C Middle Point, NT |
35.0°C Kalumburu, WA |
40.0°C Mount Ive, SA |
|
-1.8°C Thredbo Top Station, NSW/ACT |
Coldest |
-7.0°C Woolbrook, NSW/ACT |
-5.0°C Woolbrook, NSW/ACT |
-4.0°C Coonabarabran, NSW/ACT |
-12.1°C Perisher Valley, NSW/ACT |
|
WNW 55km/h Thredbo Top Station, NSW/ACT |
Windiest |
111km/h Scotts Peak Dam, Tas |
109km/h Hogan Island, Vic |
105km/h Maatsuyker Is, Tas |
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| no rain last hr | Wettest |
34.5mm Lake Margaret, Tas |
27.0mm Bickley, WA |
7.0mm Maydena, Tas |
7.0mm Maydena, Tas |
| Australia's Records for July | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Max | Min | Rain | |
| Highest 40.5°C at Tindal, NT in 1995 Lowest -6.9°C at Thredbo Top Station, NSW/ACT in 1978 |
Highest 27.1°C at Cocos Island Ap, WA in 2016 Lowest -19.6°C at Charlotte Pass, NSW/ACT in 2010 |
Highest 384.3mm at Nambour, Qld in 1973 |
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