Australian Weather
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.
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
Current Extremes | Last 3 Days Extremes | Extremes This Month | |||
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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 |
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E 51km/h Cape Grim, Tas |
Windiest |
90km/h Cobar, NSW/ACT |
77km/h Forrest, WA |
118km/h Lombadina, WA |
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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 | |||
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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 |