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Icy temperatures around the country especially in the morning
Australian Community Media
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7/4/2024
Parts of Tasmania could be colder than -4C, while parts of South Australia experienced one of the coldest days in a century on Wednesday, July 3, 2024.
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Hello, it's Angus here at the Bureau, it is Wednesday so we can check out the weather
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for the rest of the week and we really have to start with temperatures.
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It was icy this morning, it's another cold one on Thursday morning, that is where we
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will begin.
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Thursday morning's temperatures are going to be very chilly across southern Australia
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once again.
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Parts of Tasmania could be colder than minus 5 degrees, we've got a minus 4 degree kick
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off in Launceston, Victoria is going to be cold again, Melbourne going for 1 degree,
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that would match what we had this morning in Melbourne, which was the coldest day in
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a couple of years.
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As for South Australia, likely to be not quite as chilly on Thursday as what it was on Wednesday
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when Adelaide kicked off the day at 0.6 degrees, which was one of the coldest days in the past
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hundred years there.
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It will be a chilly start through central parts of the country on Thursday as well.
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And then a cool afternoon, many places between 11 and 15 degrees across southern Australia
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for the Thursday afternoon maximum temperatures, a little bit higher along the coastline but
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still breezy and cloudy in Sydney and Brisbane and that is going to be keeping those temperatures
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feeling a little cooler than what you see here on the map.
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Now at this time of year I don't really like to use the word warmer because it's not warm
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on Friday morning, it's still winter, it's still a cold morning but perhaps a little
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milder or not as cold as what it was earlier in the week as most places on Friday morning
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see their temperatures 1 or 2 degrees higher than what they were earlier in the week and
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the same holds true for the afternoon as well.
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Temperatures 1 or 2 degrees higher than where they were on both Wednesday and Thursday as
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we do see these marginally more mild conditions come in before the weekend.
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So that's temperature, how about rainfall?
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Well the main weather system driving the patterns around the country this week are these big
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high pressure areas across the south and high pressure doesn't bring a lot of rainfall and
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that's the case through this week.
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We're not seeing a lot of rainfall but there's always a few spots to watch out for, so for
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Thursday it's a little low down here in southern WA to bring some rain there but aside from
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that we're really looking at the east coast of the country, onshore flow.
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We've seen it a lot over the past couple of months and that just means that the wind is
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pushing from the ocean to the land and it's bringing showers with it and the wind follows
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these white isobar lines and we will see those showers push onto the country all the way
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from the southern New South Wales coast all the way up to the northern tropical coast
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of Queensland.
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Now it's not heavy rain, it's not extensive widespread flooding rain but it is just these
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intermittent spells of wet weather again on Thursday, then again on Friday along this
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eastern coastline with all spots likely to pick up at least a couple of showers.
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Elsewhere we will see a broader area of rain on Friday develop through the centre of the
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country, initially just around the pastoral districts in northern parts of South Australia,
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and potentially the Eyre Peninsula as well, but we'll also see some spotty wet weather
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before the end of the day in far western Queensland and perhaps southern parts of the NT.
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Now this region of rain developing through the centre of the country to round out the
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week will become a more significant weather system through the weekend and into next week
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as the rain gets more widespread, a little heavier, and eventually moves east across
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these eastern states.
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But for now it's just a little bit of patchy rain through the middle over the next couple
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of days.
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In terms of which, here's the total forecast rainfall from Wednesday through to Friday,
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that's the next three days of rain all on one map, and I really just wanted to look
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at the east coast of New South Wales because that's where we'll probably see the largest
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accumulations over that three day span, even if it's only 10 to 20mm each day we could
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see 50mm through the second half of the week for coastal parts of the Illawarra, the Hunter,
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the Mid North Coast, up to the Northern Rivers and even South East Queensland.
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And a look at how much rain we might get out of that system developing on Friday.
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Not a lot, remembering that the green and blues, that's single digit rainfall total,
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so 5 to 10mm over large parts of the pastoral districts, potentially 15 to 25mm here through
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northern parts of the Eyre Peninsula.
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But that will be more significant next week, so do keep an eye on your longer range weather
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forecast at the Bureau website and app, thank you very much for checking in.
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