Australian Weather News -- 20 AUG 2002

Australian Weather News

Tuesday, 20 AUG 2002

Widespread but mostly light rain in Qld
NEWSBITS: Cold in western NT

Rain fell over most of the eastern two-thirds of Queensland overnight and today, though falls were generally between 5 and 25mm for the 3 days ending 9am Wednesday. An area of stong middle-atmosphere uplift that developed east of a surface trough through central Queensland this morning gave some heavy falls along the coast, where Lady Elliot Island, 90km NNE of Bundaberg, recorded 73mm between 9am and 3pm. Thick cloud over central and southeastern parts kept daytime temperatures as much as 8 or 9° below normal today.

NEWSBITS: Overnight minima were between 8 and 11° below average across a broad swathe of the Northern Territory east of the WA border this morning. Wave Hill station, 250km west of Newcastle Waters, recorded a low of 3.0, 10.2 below average, while 100km farther north Victoria River Downs reported 5.0, 8.9 below.

National weather extremes for today Data provided by the Bureau of Meteorology Last updated at 18:30 EST on 24/08/02
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 (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. 49.0 INGHAM PUMP STATION AL N Coast--Herbert QLD 47.6 GAIRLOCH N Coast--Herbert QLD 37.0 LUCINDA POST OFFICE N Coast--Herbert QLD 30.0 TEWANTIN RSL PARK Brisbane/SE Coast QLD 30.0 UPPER STONE EXELBY N Coast--Herbert QLD *QUEENSLAND* N Coast--Herbert 49.0 INGHAM PUMP STATION AL 47.6 GAIRLOCH 37.0 LUCINDA POST OFFICE 30.0 UPPER STONE EXELBY Brisbane/SE Coast 30.0 TEWANTIN RSL PARK	High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. *QUEENSLAND* *Wide Bay/Burnett* LADY ELLIOT ISLAND 67.0mm in 3 hr to 12:00 22.3mm/h 73.0mm in 6 hr to 15:00 12.2mm/h HERON ISLAND RES STN 24.0mm in 3 hr to 12:00 8.0mm/h *Brisbane/SE Coast* TEWANTIN RSL PARK 15.0mm in 3 hr to 03:00 5.0mm/h 15.0mm in 3 hr to 15:00 5.0mm/h
Todays highest & lowest temperatures
Maximum	Minimum
33.4 OENPELLI Darwin-Daly NT 33.0 MIDDLE POINT AWS N Rivers NT 33.0 JABIRU AIRPORT Darwin-Daly NT 32.0 KALUMBURU N Kimberley WA 32.0 KALUMBURU MISSION N Kimberley WA 32.0 BATCHELOR AERO Darwin-Daly NT 32.0 CADJEBUT W Kimberley WA	26.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR Islands 24.2 HORN ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 24.0 COCONUT ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 23.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT 22.0 TROUGHTON ISLAND N Kimberley WA 22.0 WARRUWI Arnhem NT
-2.6 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC -1.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC 1.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 2.4 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW 2.8 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC	-10.3 COOMA AIRPORT AWS Goulburn/Monaro NSW -9.0 COOMA VISITORS CENTRE Goulburn/Monaro NSW -8.5 PERISHER VALLEY SKI CENTRE Snowy Mtns NSW -8.0 THREDBO VILLAGE Snowy Mtns NSW -6.8 BRAIDWOOD RACECOURSE AWS South Coast NSW
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal
Maximum	Minimum
+6.1 23.0 WONGAN HILLS RES.STATION Central West WA +4.9 23.8 BALLADONIA Eucla WA +4.9 23.8 EYRE Eucla WA +4.9 23.3 KALGOORLIE-BOULDER AIRPORT Goldfields WA +4.9 22.0 TRANGIE RESEARCH STATION AWS CW Plains N NSW	+7.4 11.1 OAKEY AERO Darling Downs E QLD +6.8 13.6 GAYNDAH POST OFFICE Wide Bay/Burnett QLD +6.8 11.1 INJUNE POST OFFICE Maranoa QLD +6.4 10.3 MITCHELL POST OFFICE Maranoa QLD +6.3 11.2 MILES POST OFFICE Darling Downs W QLD
-8.7 16.1 ROLLESTON METEOR ST Central Highlands QLD -8.0 17.2 CLERMONT POST OFFICE Central Highlands QLD -8.0 17.1 BARALABA POST OFFICE Wide Bay/Burnett QLD -7.5 16.4 SPRINGSURE DAME ST Central Highlands QLD -7.4 16.0 GYMPIE Brisbane/SE Coast QLD	-10.2 3.0 WAVE HILL Victoria NT -8.9 5.0 VICTORIA RIVER DOWNS Victoria NT -8.2 4.5 DOONGAN N Kimberley WA -8.0 6.5 LARRIMAH Roper-McArthur NT -7.9 -1.2 KULGERA Alice Springs NT
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. MAATSUYKER ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE Southeast TAS: 89 (320/ 74 ) at 21:00	Other extremes ..