Rain increasing across east of the country

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Warmer weather on its way as rain returns to parts of the east.

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00:00Hello from the Bureau. It's Monday the 19th of August and we're going to take a

00:04look at the weather for the first half of this week. I want to show you here a

00:08bit of a weather system in the Bight in South Australia. It's a low-pressure system

00:11and a trough, associated trough, through South Australia at the moment. This is

00:15the same weather system that we saw across Western Australia across the

00:19weekend, which did bring moderate to heavy rainfall totals, as well as your

00:23damaging wind gust as it moved through that part of the world across the

00:27weekend. We are expecting it to be a little bit less intense as it crosses South

00:31Australia today, but we'll get to that in just a moment. I wanted to point out as

00:34well we do have a bit of an easterly trajectory of winds across the east

00:37coast of the country at the moment, and that's bringing some onshore showers

00:41everywhere from southeast Queensland through to the southern New South Wales

00:45coast. And similarly on the other side of the country in Western Australia, we do

00:49have some showers in the wake of the cold front, which we saw cross over the

00:53weekend. As we play this loop for the rest of today, we can see the system sort

00:59of move towards the east. Like I said, the forecast for South Australia is a bit

01:02less intense than that for Western Australia. Isolated showers and the

01:06chance of a gusty thunderstorm is the forecast, and that includes Adelaide

01:09which does have the chance of a thunderstorm on the forecast. Now if we

01:13move into tomorrow, we can see the system continue to move towards the east, and by

01:18the time we get to the afternoon we can see it spread across much of southern

01:22New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Rainfall totals could be around that 20

01:26millimetre mark through the northern slopes of Victoria there, and as well as

01:29the mountainous parts of northern Tasmania. The capitals though, Melbourne

01:34and Hobart, will be a fair whack drier with only a few millimetres on the

01:37forecast. Could be a windy day in Melbourne as well as the system comes

01:41through. Now as we play the animation through the day on Wednesday, we can see

01:48this system sort of continue to move to the east as we see another cold front

01:54move towards the southeast of the country from across the Bight. By the time

01:58we get to a late Wednesday, all that's going to do is keep that shower activity

02:02going for another day through southern parts of South Australia, Victoria and

02:06Tasmania there. Now in terms of temperatures for the Tuesday, we are

02:11looking at warmer than average temperatures across much of the

02:14country, especially southwest Queensland and northwest New South Wales, where it

02:18will be quite a bit warmer than average. Southwestern parts of Western Australia

02:23are a notable exception with temperatures cooler than average in the wake of that

02:26cold front, as well as the southeastern parts of Queensland and northeastern

02:31parts of New South Wales with that onshore shower activity a little bit

02:34cooler than average. And a very similar story for the Wednesday as well, with

02:38temperatures across the central parts of the country really quite warm, remaining

02:42closer to average across southwest WA and southeast Queensland, northeast New

02:48South Wales. A bit of a spoiler alert for this week and we are expecting some of

02:51these warmer temperatures from central Australia to be dragged into the

02:54southeast of the country for a weekend that is much warmer than the one we've

02:59just had. Right, that's all we've got for today. You can keep up to date with our

03:02forecasts and warnings on the Bureau app and on the website, and we'll see you

03:07next time.

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