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Current Warnings
 

National Summary

A low pressure trough over WA, SA and the NT is producing showers and storms. Another trough in the east combined with an upper level disturbance is resulting in widespread thunderstorms and showers over NSW, QLD and VIC. Mostly dry elsewhere under a region of high pressure.

State Weather

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National Synoptic

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Capital Cities

NOW MIN MAX
Sydney
 
21.1 20 27

Possible shower

Melbourne
 
24.9 22 35

Possible shower

Brisbane
 
21.0 20 26

Showers

Perth
 
15.3 12 25

Mostly sunny

Adelaide
 
25.5 26 34

Late shower

Canberra
 
16.4 14 30

Mostly sunny

Hobart
 
17.7 15 33

Possible shower

Darwin
 
28.1 26 34

Possible thunderstorm

Videos

Weather News

BOM warns Victoria to be hit by 'unprecedented' thunderstorms, flash flooding

21:25 EDT

Victoria is set to be drenched with up to three times its monthly rainfall average mostly over two days with "unprecedented" thunderstorms due to hit the state on Friday and Saturday, which could lead to flash flooding.

Haystack burns for days as lightning chaos strikes farmers and more stormy weather on the way

18:02 EDT

A farming family has lost a large hay and barley straw stack to a raging 12-foot-high inferno, still smouldering three days later, sparked by lightning which struck their property early Monday morning.

Darwin temperature drop stumps business, suggesting street art is cooler than we think

15:21 EDT

A Darwin business recently did something very few might have done before — it turned the air-conditioning temperature up in November.

Extremes and Records

Extremes and Records
Current Extremes   Last 3 Days Extremes Extremes This Month
Mon 27/11 Tue 28/11 Wed 29/11

32.5°C

Giles, WA
Hottest

41.8°C

Marble Bar, WA

43.0°C

Telfer Ap, WA

42.0°C

Warburton, WA

45.1°C

Marble Bar, WA

5.1°C

Perisher Valley, NSW/ACT
Coldest

3.9°C

Perisher Valley, NSW/ACT

3.0°C

Perisher Valley, NSW/ACT
 

-6.5°C

Thredbo Top Station, NSW/ACT

E 51km/h

Cape Grim, Tas
Windiest

90km/h

Cobar, NSW/ACT

77km/h

Forrest, WA

118km/h

Lombadina, WA
-

10.6mm last hr

Ooralea Racecourse, Qld
Wettest

84.6mm

Condobolin, NSW/ACT

213.0mm

Christmas Island Ap, WA
 

346.0mm

Mt Mercer, Vic
Australia's Records for November
Max Min Rain
Highest 48.7°C at
Birdsville Police Station, Qld in 1990
Lowest -3.1°C at
Thredbo Top Station, NSW/ACT in 1967
Highest 38.0°C at
Balgo Hills, WA in 2015
Lowest -20.6°C at
Mt Hotham, Vic in 1990
Highest 400.0mm at
Orange, NSW/ACT in 2016
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