Australian Weather

Current Warnings
 

National Summary

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.

State Weather

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National Synoptic

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Capital Cities

NOW MIN MAX
Sydney
 
20.4 13 22

Mostly sunny

Melbourne
 
19.2 7 25

Sunny

Brisbane
 
23.5 17 26

Possible shower

Perth
 
19.4 14 27

Mostly sunny

Adelaide
 
22.6 11 25

Sunny

Canberra
 
18.2 7 22

Mostly sunny

Hobart
 
16.4 7 21

Late shower

Darwin
 
30.9 24 34

Sunny

Weather News

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

Extremes and Records
Current Extremes   Last 3 Days Extremes Extremes This Month
Tue 09/04 Wed 10/04 Thu 11/04

33.9°C

Wyndham Ap, WA
Avg: Rec:
Hottest

41.6°C

Gascoyne Junction, WA
Avg: Rec:

40.8°C

Gascoyne Junction, WA
Avg: Rec:

41.0°C

Leonora Ap, WA
Avg: Rec:

43.3°C

Mardie, WA
Avg: Rec:

5.8°C

Mt Read, Tas
Avg: Rec:
Coldest

-6.2°C

Perisher Valley, NSW/ACT
Avg: Rec:
- -

-5.4°C

Perisher Valley, NSW/ACT
Avg: Rec:
- -

-4.0°C

Perisher Valley, NSW/ACT
Avg: Rec:
- -

-7.3°C

Liawenee, Tas
Avg: Rec:

NW 51km/h

Low Rocky Point, Tas
Windiest

92km/h

Wilsons Promontory, Vic

85km/h

Maatsuyker Is, Tas

94km/h

Norseman Ap, WA
-

1.2mm last hr

Lismore, NSW/ACT
Avg: Rec:
Wettest

163.6mm

Fish River, NT
Avg: Rec:
- -

59.4mm

Kimbolton Range Station, WA
Avg: Rec:
- -

930.0mm

Woolbrook, NSW/ACT
Avg: Rec:

21.0mm

Mandora, WA
Avg: Rec:
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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