|
Australian Weather News |
|
Monday, 12 MAR 2001 |
About Australian Weather News |
 Widespread
storms in NSW inlandWintry
and windy in Tasmania |
| Widespread thunderstorms developed
in a trough lying north/south through central NSW last night, bringing
some heavy rain and electrical activity. Breeza Station, 50km WSW
of Tamworth, reportedly received 116mm between 8 and 11.30 last night, while
the Breeza general store had 77.4mm in the gauge this morning. Many centres
in the state's Central West and in the north of the SW Slopes and Southern
Tablelands recorded between 25 and 70mm in the storms. Dubbo recorded 26.8mm
in the hour to 7am. Falls of 50mm or more are listed below. During the day,
the area of storms moved northeast ahead of a clearing southwesterly change.
Gunnedah received 42mm between 9am and 3pm from the storms, while Gunnedah
Pool reported 83.2mm from the same storm.
A cold, deep southern airmass swept across Tasmania and southern SA and Victoria today, bringing an end to the unseasonably warm weather of recent months. Wind gusted to 113km/h atop Mt Wellington behind Hobart, and to 109km/h at Wilsons Promontory in Victoria as the change heralding the cooler air swept through. Hail was reported during the day in southern Tasmania. |
|
National
weather extremes for today |
|
| Quality control note: Data is complete, and has been visually checked by AWN for gross errors. Less obvious errors may remain. See Explanation of Extremes Pages for more information | |
| Records set this day (none known) | |
|
Todays highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am. It includes the top 5 totals received, and/or all reported falls of 50mm or more. 148.6 CAPE TRIBULATION STORE N
Coast--Barron QLD |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less.
|
|
Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
|
| Maximum | Minimum |
| 41.0
BOULIA AIRPORT Channel Country QLD 40.9 URANDANGIE Northwest QLD 40.6 WINDORAH POST OFFICE Channel Country QLD 40.0 LONGREACH AERO Central West QLD 40.0 PHOSPHATE HILL AIRPORT Northwest QLD 40.0 WINTON POST OFFICE Northwest QLD |
28.0
MOOMBA AIRPORT NE Pastoral SA 28.0 COCONUT ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 28.0 WINTON POST OFFICE Northwest QLD 28.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR Islands 27.0 MANDORA E Pilbara WA 27.0 BARROW ISLAND AIRPORT W Pilbara WA 27.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT 27.0 BIRDSVILLE AIRPORT Channel Country QLD 27.0 VARANUS ISLAND Islands |
| 4.0
MT BAW BAW W Gippsland VIC 5.0 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 5.9 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 6.1 CRADLE MOUNTAIN AIRSTRIP Central Plateau TAS 6.4 LIAWENEE AWS Central Plateau TAS |
0.5
MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 0.7 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 0.9 LAKE ST CLAIR NATIONAL PARK Central Plateau TAS 1.0 BARREN TIER Central Plateau TAS |
|
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
|
| Maximum | Minimum |
| +6.9
29.8 PHILLIP ISLAND PENGUIN RESERVE E Central VIC +6.6 37.5 MITCHELL POST OFFICE Maranoa QLD +6.6 39.9 QUILPIE AIRPORT Far SW QLD +6.2 39.8 BLACKALL POST OFFICE Central West QLD +6.2 40.6 WINDORAH POST OFFICE Channel Country QLD |
+7.1
28.0 WINTON POST OFFICE Northwest QLD +7.1 19.4 ALBURY AIRPORT SW Slopes S NSW +6.7 15.3 TUMBARUMBA POST OFFICE SW Slopes S NSW +6.6 25.0 TIBOOBURRA POST OFFICE Far Northwest NSW +6.6 20.2 QUANDIALLA POST OFFICE SW Slopes N NSW +6.6 21.8 HILLSTON AIRPORT Riverina W NSW |
| -9.6
23.2 LEONORA Goldfields WA -9.5 7.8 TARRALEAH CHALET Derwent Valley TAS -9.2 25.0 WARBURTON AIRFIELD Interior WA -8.5 25.9 CARNEGIE Interior WA -8.4 21.1 KALGOORLIE-BOULDER AIRPORT Goldfields WA |
-6.7
6.0 SALMON GUMS RES.STN. Goldfields WA -6.3 12.4 LEONORA Goldfields WA -6.2 4.6 CASTLEMAINE PRISON N Central VIC -5.7 6.9 KATANNING POST OFFICE Gt Southern WA -5.7 8.4 LAKE GRACE POST OFFICE Gt Southern WA |
|
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. MOSS VALE Illawarra NSW:
80 ( 10/ 65 ) at 10:01 |
Other extremes Flood peaks in NSW: Darling at Louth: about 9.51m during
the day with moderate flooding
|