Australian Weather News -- 14 DEC 2002

Australian Weather News

Saturday, 14 DEC 2002

Hot across the western tropics

Pre-wet season heat is building up across tropical WA and NT with top temperatures today above 42° across parts of northern and western NT and central northern WA. Roebourne WA reported a maximum of 47, while Milingimbi NT, on a coastal island 450km east of Darwin, reached 38°, a December record and just 1.6° shy of its all-time top temperature.

National weather extremes for today Data provided by the Bureau of Meteorology Last updated at 04:46 UTC on 15/12/02
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): Highest daily maximum temperature for December: Milingimbi NT: 38.0 (37.7, 24)
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. 125.0 MUSGRAVE S Peninsula QLD 45.0 THORAK CEMETERY Darwin-Daly NT 41.0 GLENEAGLE ALERT N Coast--Herbert QLD 31.0 COPPERLODE DAM ALERT N Coast--Barron QLD 29.0 GLEN HARDING N Coast--Barron QLD *NORTHERN TERRITORY* Darwin-Daly 45.0 THORAK CEMETERY *QUEENSLAND* S Peninsula 125.0 MUSGRAVE N Coast--Barron 31.0 COPPERLODE DAM ALERT 29.0 GLEN HARDING N Coast--Herbert 41.0 GLENEAGLE ALERT	High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. *WESTERN AUSTRALIA* *N Kimberley* KALUMBURU 5.8mm in 6 min to 15:43 58.0mm/h 30.8mm in 1 hr to 16:00 30.8mm/h 33.0mm in 3 hr to 18:00 11.0mm/h *QUEENSLAND* *N Peninsula* WEIPA AERO 8.6mm in 18 min to 15:30 28.7mm/h *Warrego* CHARLEVILLE AERO 2.8mm in 2 min to 14:02 84.0mm/h
Todays highest & lowest temperatures
Maximum	Minimum
47.0 ROEBOURNE AERO E Pilbara WA 46.2 ROEBOURNE E Pilbara WA 45.3 MARBLE BAR COMPARISON E Pilbara WA 45.0 MARBLE BAR E Pilbara WA 43.5 CARNEGIE Interior WA	31.4 WITTENOOM W Pilbara WA 31.0 ROEBOURNE AERO E Pilbara WA 30.8 ROEBOURNE E Pilbara WA 30.0 NARAWILLI Arnhem NT 30.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR Islands
13.1 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 14.5 MAATSUYKER ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE Southeast TAS 14.6 CAPE BRUNY LIGHTHOUSE Southeast TAS 15.0 TASMAN ISLAND Southeast TAS 15.0 CAPE BRUNY (CAPE BRUNY) Southeast TAS	-2.1 LIAWENEE AWS Central Plateau TAS 0.3 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 0.9 TUNNACK FIRE STATION Southeast TAS 1.7 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 1.8 LAKE LEAKE (ELIZABETH RIVER) E Coast TAS
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal
Maximum	Minimum
+10.7 37.0 NULLARBOR ROADHOUSE W Agricultural SA +9.6 38.5 POLDA (GUM VIEW) W Agricultural SA +8.4 35.6 MURRAY BRIDGE Lower Murray SA +8.3 34.7 MAITLAND Yorke Peninsula SA +8.2 39.0 KYANCUTTA W Agricultural SA	+6.0 31.4 WITTENOOM W Pilbara WA +5.9 30.8 ROEBOURNE E Pilbara WA +5.1 21.2 PARRAMATTA NORTH (MASONS DRIVE) Sydney--east NSW +4.3 23.3 TAMBO POST OFFICE Central Highlands QLD +4.2 29.9 ELCHO ISLAND Arnhem NT
-5.1 27.0 BADGINGARRA RESEARCH STN Lower West WA -4.6 26.4 KALBARRI Central West WA -4.5 23.8 KARNET Lower West WA -4.2 24.0 MEDINA RESEARCH CENTRE Lower West WA -3.8 16.0 CAPE OTWAY LIGHTHOUSE W Coast VIC	-8.3 16.1 WAVE HILL Victoria NT -8.1 14.6 URANDANGIE Northwest QLD -7.4 15.6 MOUNT ISA AERO Gulf Country QLD -7.2 17.0 DALY WATERS AWS Roper-McArthur NT -7.0 14.0 JERVOIS Alice Springs NT -7.0 6.0 TENTERFIELD (WOOD ST) N Tablelands W NSW
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. KALUMBURU N Kimberley WA : 93 ( 40/ 65 ) at 15:31	Other extremes ..