Heavy rain on Qld tropical coast
Hot around Sydney, cold in the tropics
An active monsoon trough continues to extend from ex-TC Sam across the southeastern Gulf of Carpentaria and NE across Cape York Peninsula. Heavy storms that developed in the eastern Gulf last night drifted across the Peninsula during the early morning giving Lockhart River on the east coast 95mm in 12 hours to 3am and Cape Keerweer on the west coast 125mm for the 24 hours to 9am. An intense shower gave South Johnstone, 8km SSW of Innisfail, 48.8mm in just 20 minutes to 2.19am with 31.6mm falling in the last 10 minutes.
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| Maximum temperature variations from normal today.BoM |
Hot weather continued in western NSW today, with top temperatures again around 42 or 43 degrees. Northwesterly winds brought the heat to the coast around Sydney, giving the city temperatures 12 to 13° above normal during the day. Meanwhile, heavy cloud cover associated with ex-TC Sam and the monsoon trough kept daytime temperatures 10 to 15 below normal in a band across the north of the continent. Balgo Hills, near the WA/NT border and between the Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts, recorded a top temp of only 23.9, 15.6 below the average.