Australian Weather News -- 06 June 2000

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Tuesday 06 June 2000

Light snow continues in central NSW, central Tas

Light snow again fell on higher parts of the NSW Central Tablelands. Orange Airport, some 10km SE of the town and about 100m higher, reported light snow overnight, while Oberon reported a more substantial fall, with 5cm on the ground at 9am and light snow continuing into the middle of the day. In Tasmania, snow was reported on the Central Plateau down to 700m.

Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am 36.6 Powelltown Vic 33.0 Mallacoota Vic 28.6 Palmers Lookout Port Arthur Tas 23.0 Labertouche Vic	Today's highest & lowest temps		Other extremes . Records set this day .
	Maximum	Minimum
	31.0 Kowanyama AP Qld	23.8 Horn Is Qld
	-2.0 Crackenback NSW	-7.0 Crackenback NSW
	Greatest variations from normal
	Maximum	Minimum
	+4.9 21.5 Bridgetown WA	+5.0 17.8 Georgetown Qld
	-7.8 17.0 Mt Isa AP Qld	-8.2 -2.1 Corrigin WA -8.2 -0.8 Eyre WA

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