Cold front moving through southeast Australia

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Rain to lighten over the east coast as the cold front continues to push through the interior of the country.

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00:00G'day from the Bureau, with a look at your midweek forecast around the country.

00:05So today we saw showers and thunderstorms through parts of WA with gusty winds and that

00:11rain band is now approaching the South Australia border.

00:13And as we move into tonight and into tomorrow, we will see that cold front move across much

00:18of South Australia with a band of rain, gusty winds and cooler temperatures.

00:23While behind the front, conditions will ease quickly as a high ridges in along WA.

00:28But along the east coast, after what has been a wet week or two, finally sunshine returning

00:34to many of us along the east coast.

00:36So a good time to get out there and get some sunshine.

00:38While in the southeast, winds will be freshening ahead of this cold front, which is going to

00:43move through parts of Victoria, Tasmania and Western New South Wales late Thursday and

00:48into Thursday night with a band of rain, gusty winds and cooler temperatures.

00:53But note how this front quickly weakens as it moves into Friday.

00:57So we're seeing little, if any, rainfall across eastern parts of New South Wales and

01:01Queensland as that front really weakens and moves away.

01:05And high pressure starts moving into much of the country by Friday night, bringing fine

01:10and clear conditions to all but the far southern coastline with showers about parts of Tasmania

01:16and southern Victoria as well, with a cold start as we head into the weekend period.

01:21So let's look at that total rainfall though in these coming days.

01:25Firstly, this rain has already fallen, but note some of the light to moderate falls picking

01:29up through parts of South Australia and Victoria with that front.

01:32But also note how the rain stops through central parts of New South Wales and we're looking

01:37at very little, if any, rainfall along the coast of New South Wales after what has already

01:41been a wet few weeks.

01:43Pretty wet though through parts of Tasmania, most of that falling as we see in the next

01:4612 to 24 hours and then very dry across the rest of the country.

01:51So let's look at those minimum temperatures in the coming days.

01:54When we wake up tomorrow morning, we're going to see single figure minimums across much

01:59of central and eastern inland Australia and getting pretty close to zero through some

02:03areas where we'd like to see some frost patches, particularly through elevated areas.

02:07Elsewhere staying pretty cool as well, 8 degrees in Perth, 10 in Adelaide, 8 in Melbourne,

02:135 in Hobart, 1 in Canberra, like to see some frost there, 8 in Sydney, cooler in the western

02:19suburbs and 12 in Brisbane.

02:22That's going to warm up to a cool day across the south as we'd expect this time of year

02:26being winter, but pretty warm through parts of Queensland into the mid-20s as well and

02:31across our tropical north with temperatures in the low 40s, 30s I should say.

02:36Then as we get into Friday morning, again continuing this theme of cold conditions right

02:40across the country with even getting up to 9 degrees at Mount Isa and cool mornings right

02:45across the south.

02:47Then Friday, similar day with temperatures in the mid to high teens across the south

02:51and getting up into the 20s as we get further to the north.

02:54And let's look at our first glimpse of what Saturday is looking like.

02:58We can see that cold air really starting to move northwards on Saturday and dropping down

03:02as well, only 11 in Hobart on Saturday, 13 in Melbourne, 19 or 18 on the central coast

03:08of New South Wales, 19 as well in Perth, 22 in Brisbane and only 13 in Canberra.

03:15So if you're heading out in the next couple of days and want the latest forecast for your

03:18area, remember you can always get it via our website, app and social media.

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