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Friday - Latest

A front and trough are bring damaging winds to TAS and VIC along with rain, mainly over north and western TAS. Another front in the south west is generating a few showers for coastal WA with the odd storm offshore. Highs are keeping elsewhere dry and settled.

Saturday 22:00 EST

A trough and front will bring rain and colder winds to western and southern WA, mainly about the west coast. Another front will bring cold, showery winds and highland snow to TAS and showers and Alpine snow to VIC. A trough will draw warm winds across northern NSW and QLD.

Sunday 22:00 EST

A lingering trough and another front will maintain rain and brisk winds in western WA, mainly the southwest. Unseasonably warm winds will develop in SA which a high keeps the state dry and clears light showers from TAS, VIC and southern NSW. The high will also keep the north dry.

Monday 22:00 EST

A cold front will generate wintry, showery winds in southwest WA. A trough will cause patchy light rain elsewhere in the state's west and south and scatter it across an unseasonably warm SA, TAS, VIC and southern NSW. A high will keep the rest of NSW and much of QLD and NT dry.

Tuesday 22:00 EST

Fronts will help generate cooling winds, showers and rain across much of southern Australia. An associated trough will draw unseasonably warm winds across central Australia, NSW and western and southern QLD. A high will keep much of northern Australia dry.

Wednesday 22:00 EST

Fronts will bring further cooling to much of southern Australia with help from brisk showery winds. Showers will fall as snow on the Alps. An associated trough will draw unseasonably warm winds across northern NSW and southern QLD. A high will keep much of northern Australia dry.

Thursday 22:00 EST

Another cold front will generate strong, cold winds and showers across SA, TAS, VIC and southern NSW. Showers will fall as snow on the TAS highlands and VIC and NSW Alps. A trough will draw warm winds across northern NSW and southern QLD before bringing a cooler, dry change.

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