Australian Weather News -- 19 APR 2002

Australian Weather News

Friday, 19 APR 2002

NEWSBITS: Moderate overnight rain on E Tas and Vic coasts

NEWSBITS: In a generally uneventful weather day across the continent, the only rain of note fell in orographically favoured parts of the Tasmanian East Coast and Victoria's East Gippsland in easterlies swinging around the underside of a stationary low off the NSW South Coast. Gray, at the top of the Elephant Pass just southeast of St Marys, Tas, always scores well in these situations and recorded 44.4mm in the day ended 9 this morning and a further 31.8 to 9am Saturday morning, each reading being the highest in the nation.

National weather extremes for today Data provided by the Bureau of Meteorology Last updated at 18:01 EST on 20/04/02
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 (not checked or entered yet)
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. 44.4 GRAY (CRAIGIE-LEA) E Coast TAS 42.0 MT MOORNAPA W Gippsland VIC 33.2 CABBAGE TREE CREEK E Gippsland VIC 33.0 ORFORD POST OFFICE E Coast TAS 33.0 CANN RIVER (POST OFFICE) E Gippsland VIC *VICTORIA* E Gippsland 33.2 CABBAGE TREE CREEK 33.0 CANN RIVER (POST OFFICE) W Gippsland 42.0 MT MOORNAPA *TASMANIA* E Coast 44.4 GRAY (CRAIGIE-LEA) 33.0 ORFORD POST OFFICE	High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. *QUEENSLAND* *N Peninsula* HORN ISLAND 6.4mm in 17 min to 21:43 22.6mm/h 14.4mm in 1 hr to 22:00 14.4mm/h *VICTORIA* *W Gippsland* YARRAM (YARRAM CFA) 10.0mm in 10 min to 14:59 60.0mm/h
Todays highest & lowest temperatures
Maximum	Minimum
39.0 WYNDHAM AERO N Kimberley WA 38.2 WYNDHAM POST OFFICE N Kimberley WA 38.1 WARMUN E Kimberley WA 38.1 FLYING FOX Roper-McArthur NT 38.0 KUNUNURRA AERO E Kimberley WA 38.0 FITZROY CROSSING AERO W Kimberley WA 38.0 NORMANTON AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD	29.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR Islands 28.6 TROUGHTON ISLAND N Kimberley WA 27.8 CAIRNS AERO N Coast--Barron QLD 27.6 BROOME AIRPORT W Kimberley WA 27.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT
10.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 10.3 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 10.7 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 12.4 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC 13.0 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW 13.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC	0.0 WEIPA AERO N Peninsula QLD 0.0 BLACKWATER WATER TREAT Central Highlands QLD 1.0 MELTON MOWBRAY(NORTH STOCKMAN) Southeast TAS 1.0 CRADLE MOUNTAIN AIRSTRIP Central Plateau TAS 3.6 GLEN INNES AIRPORT AWS N Tablelands W NSW
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal
Maximum	Minimum
+9.4 32.5 WHYALLA AERO W Agricultural SA +9.0 36.2 KULGERA Alice Springs NT +9.0 31.3 PARAFIELD AIRPORT Adelaide Plains SA +8.7 31.0 CLEVE W Agricultural SA +8.5 36.2 MARLA POLICE STATION NW Pastoral SA +8.5 31.0 EDINBURGH RAAF Adelaide Plains SA	+9.3 18.7 KYANCUTTA W Agricultural SA +8.6 15.3 DARTMOUTH RESERVOIR Lower NE VIC +8.5 21.5 PORT PIRIE BHAS Lower North SA +8.5 12.5 COOMA VISITORS CENTRE Goulburn/Monaro NSW +7.8 20.0 CLEVE W Agricultural SA
-6.3 17.3 RAVENSTHORPE Gt Southern WA -5.4 18.0 SALMON GUMS RES.STN. Goldfields WA -5.3 19.1 NORSEMAN Goldfields WA -5.2 17.9 ESPERANCE SW & S Coast WA -5.0 17.6 ONGERUP Gt Southern WA	-7.0 11.7 MOUNT ISA AERO Gulf Country QLD -4.9 14.0 WAVE HILL Victoria NT -4.7 7.0 OAKEY AERO Darling Downs E QLD -4.6 12.0 MURCHISON W Gascoyne WA -4.2 12.5 URANDANGIE Northwest QLD
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. No reports of wind gusts above 90km/h or sustained winds above 63km/h	Other extremes ..