Temperature
extremes in east and west|
Australian Weather News |
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Monday, 02 DEC 2002 |
| Temperature
extremes in east and west |
| Perth Airport experienced its coldest December minimum temperature in over 50 years when the thermometer dropped to 4.8° just on sunrise at 5.03am. The previous record of 5.2 was set back on 29/12/1957. The city site got down to 8.4 which is lower than the previous record of 8.6, also set in 1957, but a site change makes comparison of the records questionable. Minima were 6 to 10 below average across a large swathe of the Lower Southwest, Great Southern and southern Central Wheat Belt as winds dropped after a cold change yesterday dropped airmass temperature significantly. Meanwhile, centres around Melbourne and west to the SA border sweltered in daytime temperatures up to 13° above normal today in hot northerlies ahead of the same change. |
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National
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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): Lowest daily minimum temperature for December: Perth AP WA: 4.8 (5.2, 58) |
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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.
63.0 MARLOW'S LAGOON Darwin-Daly NT |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less.
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Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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44.8 BIRDSVILLE POLICE STATION Channel Country QLD 44.7 BIRDSVILLE AIRPORT Channel Country QLD 44.1 BOULIA AIRPORT Channel Country QLD 44.0 JULIA CREEK AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD 44.0 CAMOOWEAL TOWNSHIP Northwest QLD 44.0 PHOSPHATE HILL AIRPORT Northwest QLD 44.0 WINTON AIRPORT 44.0 MARBLE BAR E Pilbara WA |
31.0 FITZROY CROSSING AERO W Kimberley WA 30.1 TENNANT CREEK AIRPORT Barkly NT 30.0 CADJEBUT W Kimberley WA 30.0 WATARRKA Alice Springs NT 29.1 BLACK POINT Darwin-Daly NT |
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14.5 MOUNT BARKER SW & S Coast WA 15.6 ALBANY TOWN SW & S Coast WA 15.7 ALBANY AIRPORT SW & S Coast WA 16.0 SHANNON SW & S Coast WA 16.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW |
-1.0 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW 1.0 PERISHER VALLEY SKI CENTRE Snowy Mtns NSW 2.0 WANDERING Gt Southern WA 2.7 WANDERING COMPARISON Gt Southern WA 2.7 THREDBO VILLAGE Snowy Mtns NSW |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
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+13.4
37.0 LAVERTON RAAF W Central VIC +13.0 33.8 PHILLIP ISLAND PENGUIN RESERVE E Central VIC +11.9 34.5 CRANBOURNE BOTANIC GARDENS E Central VIC +11.5 35.3 MOORABBIN AIRPORT E Central VIC +11.4 33.6 HEYWOOD FORESTRY W Coast VIC |
+8.1
30.0 WATARRKA Alice Springs NT +6.9 27.2 CURTIN SPRINGS Alice Springs NT +6.8 18.3 YONGALA Upper North SA +6.7 17.1 MOUNT BARKER Mt Lofty Ranges SA +6.5 22.4 HAWKER Upper North SA |
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-9.8
14.5 MOUNT BARKER SW & S Coast WA -9.2 23.8 SOUTHERN CROSS Goldfields WA -9.1 23.0 BADGINGARRA RESEARCH STN Lower West WA -9.1 23.4 BENCUBBIN Cent Wheatbelt WA -9.0 18.5 BRIDGETOWN POST OFFICE SW & S Coast WA |
-10.2
3.5 BROOKTON Gt Southern WA -10.0 4.8 PERTH AIRPORT Lower West WA -9.9 5.1 MEDINA RESEARCH CENTRE Lower West WA -9.9 5.5 CUNDERDIN Cent Wheatbelt WA -9.9 4.0 HYDEN Gt Southern WA |
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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.
BUSSELTON AERO SW & S Coast WA : 106 (250/ 33 ) at 15:24 |
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