Thunderstorms expected for large parts of east over Anzac weekend

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Wet weekend for south-east Australia; mostly settled elsewhere.

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00:00Hello Miriam at the Bureau with your national weather forecast for tomorrow Friday the 25th

00:05of April and we'll take a quick look ahead at the weekend as well as tomorrow is the Anzac Day

00:09public holiday. Let's start by taking a look at tomorrow's weather map and we can see that the

00:14main weather feature of interest is this low pressure system moving towards South Australia

00:19pushing low pressure troughs into the southeast of the country. Now this is going to generate a

00:24cool and gusty change with plenty of showers and thunderstorms for southeastern Australia over the

00:30long weekend. We can see that for tomorrow for Friday we have rain areas developing through

00:35Victoria and New South Wales in particular. In the west it's a much more settled story as a ridge of

00:41high pressure pushes across the west coast bringing cool but generally clear conditions. Fairly settled

00:47across the north as well apart from a few isolated showers and storms across our tropics. Let's take

00:52a state-by-state look at tomorrow's forecast now starting with Queensland. For Queensland tomorrow

00:58showers and coastal thunderstorms across the southeast of the state with the risk of moderate to locally

01:03heavy falls particularly during the morning about the coastal areas. Those are likely to ease back

01:08during the day but it is likely to remain fairly showery. Drier weather across the central coast and those

01:14western and inland areas although we do have a few isolated showers and storms continuing across the

01:19Cape York Peninsula. For Brisbane tomorrow we're looking at a showery day and a top of 25 degrees.

01:24In New South Wales tomorrow a few morning fogs in the east and then some coastal showers continuing

01:29along the east coast with generally lower rainfall totals than what we've seen over the past few days.

01:34The exception may be the northeast where those showers are likely to remain a little bit more

01:39persistent with the risk of some coastal thunderstorms continuing. Moderate to locally heavy falls will be

01:45once again possible. Later in the day we're going to see cloud building across those western parts of

01:50the state. Rain and showers with the chance of thunderstorms building as well particularly

01:55impacting the southwest. Severe storms may bring some locally heavy falls leading to flash flooding

02:00through the afternoon and evening in particular. For Sydney tomorrow we're looking at a shower or two

02:05on the forecast and a top of 25 degrees. Down in Canberra partly cloudy and a top of 24 degrees.

02:13A cloudy day across Victoria tomorrow with showers increasing mostly across those western central

02:18districts a little bit more isolated through the east. Now showers may tend to rain areas with embedded

02:24thunderstorms particularly across those western and northern parts of the state through the course of

02:29tomorrow and we may actually see some severe thunderstorms bringing heavy falls leading to flash flooding.

02:34So be on the lookout for severe thunderstorm warnings through the course of tomorrow.

02:38Melbourne can expect showers increasing with a top of 24 degrees.

02:44Down in Tasmania a partly cloudy day with a few isolated showers moving through more scattered

02:49through the north and across the southwest of the state. Hobart is expecting a shower or two

02:54developing and a top of 20 degrees. Across South Australia tomorrow mostly cloudy conditions

03:00particularly through the south with isolated showers continuing. The rainfall totals will be on the

03:05lower side of things for South Australia even through those agricultural areas in the east.

03:11Cloud and showers will start to clear up and ease back from the west later in the day. Adelaide is

03:16looking at a mostly cloudy day tomorrow and a top of 25 degrees. Across Western Australia tomorrow we are

03:24expecting some coastal showers along the south coast and some morning fogs through the southwest. Then a cool

03:30cloudy day continuing for those southern parts of the state. Perth can expect a mostly sunny top of 22

03:36degrees. It will be milder and sunnier the further north we go across Western Australia. For the Northern

03:42Territory tomorrow we are expecting temperatures generally within a couple of degrees of the average

03:47but sunny and dry weather continuing for the most part particularly through those southern and central

03:51parts of the territory. A few showers and storms continuing mostly about the eastern parts of the top

03:57end and Darwin is heading for a mostly dry day atop of 33 degrees. Taking a quick look at our weekend

04:04weather now. For Saturday we're expecting to see rain continuing mostly across New South Wales with the

04:11risk of heavy falls through parts of central New South Wales and along the east coast of New South Wales.

04:17Patchier showers will push in behind these systems for parts of South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania and it

04:24will become drier the further north and west we go. So particularly for parts of inland Queensland,

04:29Central Australia and Western Australia we're looking at a mostly dry and settled Saturday. A few

04:35showers and thunderstorms continuing in the tropics. For Sunday we're likely to see the wet weather

04:40continuing across the east coast of New South Wales in particular with that risk of heavy falls

04:45persisting right through to the end of the weekend. A few isolated showers continuing in the south and some

04:50cooler weather on the way for that end of the weekend. Again we are expecting mostly dry and sunny weather

04:56for remaining parts of Australia with the exception of a few more showers and storms in the far north.

05:03Now you can find the detailed weekend forecast for your area via the Bureau's website,

05:08the BOM Weather app or via our social media. Have a great weekend and we'll catch you next week.

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