Australian Weather News -- 04 OCT 2002

Australian Weather News

Friday, 04 OCT 2002

Low brings storms but not much rain to Victoria

A slow-moving, multicentred low meandered east across Victoria today giving widespread thunderstorms but not much in the way of rain. Storms fired up around midday from Ballarat to Wangaratta along a rain-bearing troughline that had slowly amplified east and south across Victoria from the northwest overnight. The storms developed rapidly, continuing to amplify east and south with the trough, and by 4pm there was a near-continuous band of thunderstorms from west of Ballarat through the Central and West Gippsland districts to the Snowy Mountains. Only Lake Eildon recorded significant rain - 12.6mm in the hour to 4pm - but hail was reported from Corryong, a severe thunderstorm with hail from East Sale and a supercell thunderstorm from Broadford.

National weather extremes for today Data provided by the Bureau of Meteorology Last updated at 17:24 EST on 05/10/02
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 (previous record and years of computerised record shown in brackets): Lowest daily minimum temperature for October: Marla Police Station SA: 3.2 (4.8, 17)
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. 24.4 MOUNT LOFTY CHANNEL 9 Mt Lofty Ranges SA 20.4 ASHTON MARBLE HILL ORCHARD Mt Lofty Ranges SA 19.8 CRAFERS WEST Mt Lofty Ranges SA 17.8 HEATHFIELD WORKS DEPOT Mt Lofty Ranges SA 17.4 PENSHURST (POST OFFICE) W Coast VIC *SOUTH AUSTRALIA* Mt Lofty Ranges 24.4 MOUNT LOFTY CHANNEL 9 20.4 ASHTON MARBLE HILL ORCHARD 19.8 CRAFERS WEST 17.8 HEATHFIELD WORKS DEPOT *VICTORIA* W Coast 17.4 PENSHURST (POST OFFICE)	High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. *VICTORIA* *Wimmera S* LONGERENONG 1.6mm in 1 min to 16:19 96.0mm/h *N Central* EILDON FIRE TOWER 12.6mm in 1 hr to 16:00 12.6mm/h 16.0mm in 3 hr to 18:00 5.3mm/h
Todays highest & lowest temperatures
Maximum	Minimum
41.0 FITZROY CROSSING AERO W Kimberley WA 39.7 CURTIN AERO W Kimberley WA 39.0 WYNDHAM AERO N Kimberley WA 38.6 WARMUN E Kimberley WA 38.3 WEST ROEBUCK W Kimberley WA	28.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR Islands 26.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT 26.0 DUM IN MIRRIE Darwin-Daly NT 26.0 WARRUWI Arnhem NT 24.7 TROUGHTON ISLAND N Kimberley WA
4.9 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 6.7 MOUNT LOFTY Mt Lofty Ranges SA 7.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 7.6 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW 9.1 LAKE LEAKE (ELIZABETH RIVER) E Coast TAS	-4.0 EYRE Eucla WA -1.9 LIAWENEE AWS Central Plateau TAS -0.8 LAKE ST CLAIR NATIONAL PARK Central Plateau TAS 0.6 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 0.8 TARRALEAH CHALET Derwent Valley TAS
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal
Maximum	Minimum
+8.1 31.5 PROSPECT DAM Sydney--west NSW +7.8 31.3 BANKSTOWN AIRPORT AWS Sydney--east NSW +7.5 31.0 GOSFORD (NARARA RESEARCH STATION) AWS Hunter Valley NSW +7.3 31.0 PARRAMATTA NORTH (MASONS DRIVE) Sydney--east NSW +7.2 31.0 CAMDEN AIRPORT AWS Illawarra NSW	+6.8 23.4 ISISFORD POST OFFICE Central West QLD +6.5 16.4 WELLINGTON RESEARCH CENTRE CW Slopes S NSW +6.3 11.6 TUMBARUMBA POST OFFICE SW Slopes S NSW +6.2 17.5 PEAK HILL POST OFFICE CW Plains S NSW +5.9 15.0 DUNEDOO POST OFFICE CW Slopes N NSW
-8.3 14.2 MURRAY BRIDGE Lower Murray SA -7.9 13.8 ROSEDALE (TURRETFIELD RESEARCH CENTRE) County Light SA -7.9 16.0 LOXTON RESEARCH CENTRE Upper Murray SA -7.6 12.8 EUDUNDA Lower Murray SA -7.5 14.2 ADELAIDE (KENT TOWN) Adelaide Plains SA	-11.2 3.7 KULGERA Alice Springs NT -11.0 3.2 MARLA POLICE STATION NW Pastoral SA -8.4 6.4 ALICE SPRINGS AIRPORT Alice Springs NT -7.6 14.0 WAVE HILL Victoria NT -7.6 6.4 CURTIN SPRINGS 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. None reported	Other extremes ..