City lashed by record-breaking rain after wettest start to August in nine years
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Following a weekend drenching, Sydneysiders are likely in for yet more rain this week. Those in the Harbour City can expect a thunderstorm on the coast and up to 15mm of rain on Monday. This comes after more than 40mm of rain fell across the city at the weekend. The Bureau of Meteorology rain gauge at Sydney Airport recorded 25.2mm in the 24 hours to 9am on Sunday, and another 15.6mm since. The rain stretched to Bellambi near Wollongong on Sunday night, with 14.5mm falling between 6pm and 10pm. Following Monday's showers, Sydney is forecast to potentially see a shower or two on Tuesday and Wednesday, with steady maximum temperatures in the high-teens. The rains are expected to move inland, hitting Wagga Wagga at the end of the week before clear skies plunge the inland city into frost on Sunday. Much of the rain on the radar for Monday is forecast to stay out over the ocean. Bureau of Meteorology Credit: Supplied Sheep graziers in the NSW Snowy Mountains can expect frost and dangerous conditions for animals on Tuesday, the Bureau says. Melbourne could see up to 10mm of rain on both Tuesday and Friday. Canberrans will wake to frosts of -1°C on both those days as well, the forecast predicts. Brisbane is forecast for a mostly sunny week, while Perth could see up to 25mm of rain across Wednesday and Thursday. Adelaide and Hobart are in for drizzly weeks, while Darwin's dry season proves true to form. The Bureau is predicting a wetter than usual spring, with above average and potentially record-breaking rainfall for most of the eastern two-thirds of the country between August and November. 'Daytime temperatures for August to October are likely to be above average for northern, western, and southeastern Australia, with below-average daytime temperatures likely for the interior and some eastern parts of the country,' senior climatologist Lynette Bettio told NewsWire this week. 'This is consistent with the wetter-than-average forecasts and associated cloud cover,' Dr Bettio said. 'Night-time temperatures are very likely to be above average for most of Australia.'
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More rain expected after Sydney, parts of NSW drenched
Following a weekend drenching, Sydneysiders are likely in for yet more rain this week. Those in the Harbour City can expect a thunderstorm on the coast and up to 15mm of rain on Monday. This comes after more than 40mm of rain fell across the city at the weekend. The Bureau of Meteorology rain gauge at Sydney Airport recorded 25.2mm in the 24 hours to 9am on Sunday, and another 15.6mm since. The rain stretched to Bellambi near Wollongong on Sunday night, with 14.5mm falling between 6pm and 10pm. Following Monday's showers, Sydney is forecast to potentially see a shower or two on Tuesday and Wednesday, with steady maximum temperatures in the high-teens. The rains are expected to move inland, hitting Wagga Wagga at the end of the week before clear skies plunge the inland city into frost on Sunday. Sheep graziers in the NSW Snowy Mountains can expect frost and dangerous conditions for animals on Tuesday, the Bureau says. Melbourne could see up to 10mm of rain on both Tuesday and Friday. Canberrans will wake to frosts of -1°C on both those days as well, the forecast predicts. Brisbane is forecast for a mostly sunny week, while Perth could see up to 25mm of rain across Wednesday and Thursday. Adelaide and Hobart are in for drizzly weeks, while Darwin's dry season proves true to form. The Bureau is predicting a wetter than usual spring, with above average and potentially record-breaking rainfall for most of the eastern two-thirds of the country between August and November. 'Daytime temperatures for August to October are likely to be above average for northern, western, and southeastern Australia, with below-average daytime temperatures likely for the interior and some eastern parts of the country,' senior climatologist Lynette Bettio told NewsWire this week. 'This is consistent with the wetter-than-average forecasts and associated cloud cover,' Dr Bettio said. 'Night-time temperatures are very likely to be above average for most of Australia.'
ABC News
4 hours ago
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'Settled' run of weather forecast for Qld with below-average temperatures
Temperatures could be up to four degrees below average in Queensland this week, with weather conditions expected to ease after a rainy spell in central and southern parts of the state. "After some pretty wet days … we are in for a more settled run into the new week," Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Jonathan How said. He said a slow-moving high-pressure system that was forming in southern Queensland would direct a drier wind pattern across the state. The bureau forecasted dry conditions inland on Monday with some showers in coastal areas, including from the New South Wales border up towards Wide Bay, Capricornia and the Mackay coast and into the northern tropics. "Not expecting any big totals, but we'll see maybe a couple of millimetres or so, including around the south-east of the state for the Ekka [agricultural show] activities down there," Mr How said. "We're still looking at some cooler air lingering after that cloud cover late last week. He said while it would be chilly across the southern interior, the bureau was not forecasting any significant frost. Mr How said conditions on Tuesday would be similar. "Showers across the coast will gradually start to clear away, but we will start to see some increased shower activity across the Tropical North, areas from Ingham, up towards Cairns, to the Cassowary Coast," he said. Cooler temperatures are expected to continue into the weekend. Last week modelling had forecast in excess of 100 to 200 millimetres of rain from south of Rockhampton towards Bundaberg. But Mr How said those predictions did not eventuate, as most of the rain sat offshore at the weekend. "For the week we still did see about 25 to 55mm from up towards Yeppoon, Saint Lawrence, that pocket there and also did see some higher falls down around Hervey Bay and K'gari [formerly known as Fraser Island]. "Inland we did see some moderate falls for the central and south-western parts of the state, still pretty unseasonal for this time of year given it's the dry months. "But we didn't really see anything cracking triple digits like some of the models were suggesting, and it does come down to just how far off the coast these systems lie."
