Australian Weather News -- 21 October 2000

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Saturday 21 October 2000

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Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am 97.8 Mittiebah NT 85.0 Camooweal PO Qld 75.2 Brunette Downs NT 68.0 Milingimbi AWS NT Other heavy falls in eastern NT and western Qld: 67.6 Morstone Station Mt Isa 66.0 Anthony Lagoon 59.0 Urandangie 50.0 Mallapunyah McArthur High falls for other periods: .	Today's highest & lowest temps		*Wind (mean* refers to the average windspeed over 10 minutes; gust is the highest speed recorded): Other extremes . Records set this day Highest daily rainfall for October (previous record and years of computerised record shown in brackets): Milingimbi NT: 68.0 (46.6, 60) Brunette Downs NT: 75.2 (52.2, 100) Camooweal Town Qld: 85.0 (65.3, 106) Urandangie Qld:** 59.0 (41.9, 108)
	Maximum	Minimum
	37.0 Pannawonica WA	26.0 Coconut Is Qld
	11.4 Mt Hotham Vic	-3.6 Charlotte Pass NSW
	Greatest variations from normal
	Maximum	Minimum
	+10.2 33.0 Eucla AP WA +9.9 17.0 Mt Wellington Tas +8.5 22.0 Tarraleah Tas	+11.4 25.0 Tambo Qld +5.9 18.5 Injune Qld
	-16.7 18.2 Urandangie Qld -16.1 17.0 Jervois NT -15.5 21.0 Brunette Downs NT	-11.0 9.5 Brunette Downs NT

Times stated are the clock time in force in the relevant state or territory
Stories, including those in the archives, are as new and corrected information becomes available, with updates underlined
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.