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Australian Weather News |
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Saturday, 20 JUL 2002 |
| Notes on significant weather not yet written |
| Significant rainfall, strong winds, strong wind gusts and abnormally high and low temperatures for this day are given below. Descriptions of significant weather events are added here when time permits and reliable information is available. This is sometimes well after the event! |
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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 | |
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set this day (previous
record and years of computerised record shown in brackets): Highest daily maximum temperature for July: Hyden WA: 24.4 (24.0, 27) |
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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.
38.0 ZEEHAN MEMORIAL MUSEUM W Coast TAS |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. None reported |
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Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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| Maximum | Minimum |
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34.7 DOTSWOOD Central Coast E QLD 33.4 BATCHELOR AERO Darwin-Daly NT 33.0 WYNDHAM AERO N Kimberley WA 33.0 KALUMBURU N Kimberley WA 33.0 MIDDLE POINT AWS N Rivers NT 33.0 JABIRU AIRPORT Darwin-Daly NT 33.0 PORT KEATS AERO Darwin-Daly NT 33.0 KOWANYAMA AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD |
24.0 COCONUT ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 23.4 HORN ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 23.0 TROUGHTON ISLAND N Kimberley WA 23.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT 22.1 OENPELLI Darwin-Daly NT 22.1 GOVE AIRPORT Arnhem NT |
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-1.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW -0.3 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 0.7 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW 1.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC 2.5 PERISHER VALLEY SKI CENTRE Snowy Mtns NSW |
-6.9 GLEN INNES AIRPORT AWS N Tablelands W NSW -6.5 WOOLBROOK (DANGLEMAH ROAD) NW Slopes S NSW -5.0 ARMIDALE (UNI NEW ENGLAND) N Tablelands W NSW -4.5 TENTERFIELD (WOOD ST) N Tablelands W NSW -4.3 INVERELL (RAGLAN ST) N Tablelands W NSW |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
| Maximum | Minimum |
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+8.3
24.4 HYDEN Gt Southern WA +8.1 24.4 BENCUBBIN Cent Wheatbelt WA +7.8 23.9 MERREDIN Cent Wheatbelt WA +7.8 23.9 ARKAROOLA NE Pastoral SA +7.7 24.0 SOUTHERN CROSS Goldfields WA |
+7.7
11.2 SWANSEA POST OFFICE E Coast TAS +7.6 9.5 GROVE RESEARCH STATION Southeast TAS +7.2 18.5 LEARMONTH AIRPORT W Pilbara WA +7.2 10.6 ORFORD POST OFFICE E Coast TAS +7.0 18.0 NYANG STATION W Gascoyne WA |
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-2.2
21.0 WALKAMIN DPI N Coast--Barron QLD -2.2 5.0 LAKE ST CLAIR NATIONAL PARK Central Plateau TAS -2.0 17.4 GERALDTON AIRPORT Central West WA -1.8 10.0 NOOJEE (SLIVAR) W Gippsland VIC -1.7 19.1 ARCHERFIELD AIRPORT Brisbane/SE Coast QLD |
-5.9
-3.0 CAMDEN AIRPORT AWS Illawarra NSW -5.8 -1.3 CESSNOCK (NULKABA) Hunter Valley NSW -5.7 -4.5 TENTERFIELD (WOOD ST) N Tablelands W NSW -5.6 0.5 EYRE Eucla WA -5.6 0.4 PATERSON (TOCAL) Hunter Valley NSW |
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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.
MONTAGUE ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE South Coast NSW: 80 (230/ 67 ) at 20:31 |
Other extremes .. |