Wintry
blast hits Tas, Vic, southeastern NSW|
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Wednesday, 11 APR 2001 |
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| Wintry
blast hits Tas, Vic, southeastern NSW |
| A strong cold front swept across southeastern states today, ushering in wintry gales, hail and snow. The front crossed Tasmania between 5 and 9 this morning, dropping the temperature atop Mt Wellington to -1.3 at midday, and bringing squally winds, hail and light highland snow. In Victoria, the front took from around 6am to 3pm to traverse the coast from west to east, producing wind gusts to 145km/h at Wilsons Promontory and 100km/h over open water at Kingfish Oil Rig, offshore from Sale. The gusty change raised dust as it passed through southern NSW, and gave light snow to the Snowy Mountains and wind gusts around 90km/h along the NSW South and Central Coasts. |
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National
weather extremes for today |
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| 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) | |
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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. 102.8 NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY Hunter
Valley NSW |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less.
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Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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| Maximum | Minimum |
| 38.0
MARDIE W Pilbara WA 37.4 NYANG STATION W Gascoyne WA 37.2 GASCOYNE JUNCTION W Gascoyne WA 36.7 DAMPIER PORT E Pilbara WA 36.6 CLONCURRY AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD |
27.5
TROUGHTON ISLAND N Kimberley WA 27.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT 27.0 COCONUT ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 27.0 VARANUS ISLAND Islands 25.3 HORN ISLAND N Peninsula QLD |
| 2.9
LIAWENEE AWS Central Plateau TAS 3.7 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 4.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 4.0 MT BAW BAW W Gippsland VIC 4.0 CRADLE MOUNTAIN AIRSTRIP Central Plateau TAS |
-1.2
MOUNT READ W Coast TAS -0.8 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS -0.7 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 0.0 NERRIGA COMPOSITE South Coast NSW 0.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC 0.0 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC |
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Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
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| Maximum | Minimum |
| +6.5
28.3 ALBANY AIRPORT SW & S Coast WA +5.8 27.0 CAPE LEEUWIN SW & S Coast WA +5.8 26.9 MOUNT BARKER SW & S Coast WA +5.2 30.9 BENCUBBIN Cent Wheatbelt WA +5.2 28.0 SYDNEY AIRPORT AMO Sydney--east NSW |
+9.4
18.4 WANDERING COMPARISON Gt Southern WA +9.1 17.4 BRIDGETOWN POST OFFICE SW & S Coast WA +9.0 23.0 PEARCE RAAF Lower West WA +8.5 19.7 BEVERLEY Gt Southern WA +8.4 21.5 WONGAN HILLS RES.STATION Central West WA |
| -6.8
7.0 TARRALEAH CHALET Derwent Valley TAS -6.2 14.0 EAST SALE AIRPORT W Gippsland VIC -6.2 12.2 NOOJEE (SLIVAR) W Gippsland VIC -6.2 11.0 HOBART (ELLERSLIE ROAD) Southeast TAS -6.1 12.0 HOBART AIRPORT Southeast TAS |
-8.0
3.9 EYRE Eucla WA -7.6 2.5 WAGGA WAGGA RESEARCH CENTRE Riverina E NSW -6.9 0.0 NERRIGA COMPOSITE South Coast NSW -5.5 7.1 ALICE SPRINGS AIRPORT Alice Springs NT -5.2 8.2 KULGERA Alice Springs NT |
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Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. NORAH HEAD AWS Hunter Valley
NSW: 89 (190/ 70 ) at 22:44 |
Other extremes .. |