Australian Weather
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An east moving trough over WA is generating showers and storms, locally intense. A high over NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS and southeast SA is bringing a cool morning with fog areas, mostly about the ranges. Onshore winds are causing showers along the Queensland coast and adjacent inland.
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Record April heat in Kalgoorlie
16:52 EST
Kalgoorlie is having its hottest April day on record as an unseasonably warm air mass drifts over Western Australia's Goldfields district.
Australian cyclone tracking has become far more accurate and sophisticated since Cyclone Tracy
16:41 EST
The morning of December 24, 1974, Darwin residents were preparing for Christmas festivities, completely oblivious that a powerful cyclone had just made a sharp, unforeseen turn and was bearing down on the city.
Hot and cold morning
16:41 EST
Minimum temperatures varied by nearly 30 degrees between parts of WA and SA on Thursday morning.
Extremes and Records
| Current Extremes | Last 3 Days Extremes | Extremes This Month | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 09/04 | Wed 10/04 | Thu 11/04 | |||
|
29.5°C Cape Wessel, NT |
Hottest |
41.6°C Gascoyne Junction, WA |
40.8°C Gascoyne Junction, WA |
41.0°C Leonora Ap, WA |
43.3°C Mardie, WA |
|
1.3°C Butlers Gorge, Tas |
Coldest |
-6.2°C Perisher Valley, NSW/ACT |
-5.4°C Perisher Valley, NSW/ACT |
4.0°C Corowa Ap, NSW/ACT |
-7.3°C Liawenee, Tas |
|
SE 51km/h Hamilton Island Ap, Qld |
Windiest |
92km/h Wilsons Promontory, Vic |
85km/h Maatsuyker Is, Tas |
94km/h Norseman Ap, WA |
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| no rain last hr | Wettest |
163.6mm Fish River, NT |
59.4mm Kimbolton Range Station, WA |
0.2mm Maydena, Tas |
11.0mm Springsure, Qld |
| Australia's Records for April | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Max | Min | Rain | |
| Highest 48.1°C at Minnipa, SA in 2016 Lowest -5.6°C at Thredbo Top Station, NSW/ACT in 1978 |
Highest 32.0°C at Pannawonica, WA in 1981 Lowest -17.4°C at Mt Hotham, Vic in 1991 |
Highest 800.9mm at Port Douglas, Qld in 1911 |
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