Australian Weather News -- 04 September 2000

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Monday 04 September 2000

Snowfalls continue in Tasmania
Still windy in the southeast

Snow continued to fall across central, western and northeastern highland parts of Tasmania overnight. At Ben Lomond ski resort in the northeast, 8cm fell during the weekend adding to an already substantial base to give the marginal snow area one of its best seasons.

A secondary low pressure system that developed under Western Australia yesterday deepened to 975hPa as it sped under Tasmania today throwing another cold front at Victoria and the island state. Storm force wind gusts were experienced during the afternoon and evening at many coastal and mountain weather stations in the two states, with Mt Buller's new and somewhat erratic automatic weather station registering a plausible 130km/h late evening, and Mt Gellibrand in the Otways recording average winds near 90km/h around noon.

Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am 17.4 Deal Is Tas 16.4 Lake Margaret Tas 15.8 Geeveston Tas High falls for other periods: .	Today's highest & lowest temps		Other extremes Wind: Thredbo Crackenback NSW: gust of 104km/h at 4.11pm Mt Buller Vic: gust of 130km/h at 10.19pm Rhyll Vic: gust of 87km/h at 2.01pm Aireys Inlet Vic: gust of 87km/h at 2.04pm Mt Gellibrand Vic: 10-min average wind of 89km/h at noon and 12.29pm Mt Wellington summit Tas: 100km/h at 2pm Records set this day Lowest minimum temperature for September: (previous record and years of computerised record shown in brackets): Lady Elliot Island Qld: 12.0 (12.5, 44)
	Maximum	Minimum
	40.0 Fitzroy Crossing AP WA	24.1 Troughton Is WA
	0.0 Crackenback NSW	-8.0 Perisher Valley NSW
	Greatest variations from normal
	Maximum	Minimum
	+5.4 31.4 Kulgera NT	+6.0 17.0 Warburton AF WA
	-4.5 5.0 Thredbo Village NSW -4.5 10.6 Tumbarumba NSW	-8.5 6.0 Mt Isa AP Qld

Times stated are the clock time in force in the relevant state or territory
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Australian Weather News gratefully acknowledges the Bureau of Meteorology as the collector and main source of meteorological data in Australia, along with the thousands of observers who record the weather and rainfall daily. I also thank Don White, Blair Trewin and the many contributors to the Aussie Weather mailing list who routinely provide much appreciated information.