Australian Weather News -- 19 DEC 2001

Australian Weather News

Wednesday, 19 DEC 2001

Cold first two-thirds of December in Melbourne
Hot ahead of squally change in western SA

Melbourne has failed to have a single day of 30 plus maximum temperature during the first 19 days of December. The record for the latest occurrence of a temperature of 30° or more was set in 1856, when it took until 19 December for the temperature to equal or exceed the magic 30. The Melbourne weather record stretches back to 1855.

Maximum temperatures rose 10 to 14° above average along South Australia's West Coast and Eyre Peninsula today ahead of a squally change with late thunderstorms that gave Minnipa a gust of 95km/h. Ceduna's top temperature of 41.5° was 14.3 above.

National weather extremes for today Data provided by the Bureau of Meteorology Last updated at 20:00 EDST on 22/12/01
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. 45.0 GOVE AIRPORT Arnhem NT 45.0 MAREEBA AIRPORT AWS N Coast--Barron QLD 43.2 MAREEBA AIRPORT N Coast--Barron QLD 35.2 BLACKVILLE POST OFFICE NW Slopes S NSW 34.0 MORUYA (BURRA CREEK) South Coast NSW *NORTHERN TERRITORY* Arnhem 45.0 GOVE AIRPORT *QUEENSLAND* N Coast--Barron 45.0 MAREEBA AIRPORT AWS 43.2 MAREEBA AIRPORT *NEW SOUTH WALES* NW Slopes S 35.2 BLACKVILLE POST OFFICE South Coast 34.0 MORUYA (BURRA CREEK)	High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. None reported
Todays highest & lowest temperatures
Maximum	Minimum
44.0 MARBLE BAR COMPARISON E Pilbara WA 43.0 ROEBOURNE AERO E Pilbara WA 43.0 TELFER AERO Interior WA 42.4 BRUNETTE DOWNS Barkly NT 42.0 WITTENOOM W Pilbara WA	29.0 DUM IN MIRRIE Darwin-Daly NT 28.5 SWEERS ISLAND Gulf Country QLD 28.1 DARWIN AIRPORT Darwin-Daly NT 28.1 CENTRE ISLAND Roper-McArthur NT 28.0 FITZROY CROSSING AERO W Kimberley WA 28.0 CHANNEL POINT Darwin-Daly NT 28.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT 28.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR Islands 28.0 CAPE FOURCROY Islands 28.0 WARRUWI Arnhem NT
15.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 15.5 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 16.5 CRADLE MOUNTAIN AIRSTRIP Central Plateau TAS 16.7 LIAWENEE AWS Central Plateau TAS 16.8 LAKE LEAKE (ELIZABETH RIVER) E Coast TAS	1.1 LIAWENEE AWS Central Plateau TAS 2.0 PERISHER VALLEY SKI CENTRE Snowy Mtns NSW 2.3 MORTLAKE RACECOURSE W Coast VIC 2.4 ARARAT PRISON Western Plains VIC 3.0 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal
Maximum	Minimum
+14.3 41.5 CEDUNA AMO W Agricultural SA +11.9 39.9 WHYALLA AERO W Agricultural SA +11.7 35.9 ELLISTON W Agricultural SA +11.7 38.0 NULLARBOR ROADHOUSE W Agricultural SA +10.8 38.1 STREAKY BAY W Agricultural SA	+6.1 21.1 EUCLA Eucla WA +5.7 21.0 LAKE VICTORIA STORAGE Lower Darling NSW +5.0 21.5 NELSON BAY (NELSON HEAD) Hunter Valley NSW +4.7 25.3 CUNNAMULLA POST OFFICE Warrego QLD +4.3 13.0 BOMBALA POST OFFICE Goulburn/Monaro NSW
-6.5 20.9 RAVENSTHORPE Gt Southern WA -5.1 19.2 MOUNT BARKER SW & S Coast WA -4.8 23.5 KARNET Lower West WA -4.7 20.0 MANJIMUP SW & S Coast WA -4.5 22.8 ONGERUP Gt Southern WA	-7.4 4.5 YASS (LINTON HOSTEL) Goulburn/Monaro NSW -7.1 14.0 WILUNA Interior WA -6.8 2.4 ARARAT PRISON Western Plains VIC -6.6 5.7 PHILLIP ISLAND PENGUIN RESERVE E Central VIC -6.1 13.9 LEONORA Goldfields WA
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. WUDINNA AERO W Agricultural SA : 80 (250/ 63 ) at 18:48 MINNIPA DPI W Agricultural SA : 95 (230/ 67 ) at 18:37	Other extremes ..