Icy temperatures around the country especially in the morning
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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00:00Hello, it's Angus here at the Bureau, it is Wednesday so we can check out the weather
00:03for the rest of the week and we really have to start with temperatures.
00:06It was icy this morning, it's another cold one on Thursday morning, that is where we
00:11will begin.
00:12Thursday morning's temperatures are going to be very chilly across southern Australia
00:15once again.
00:16Parts of Tasmania could be colder than minus 5 degrees, we've got a minus 4 degree kick
00:21off in Launceston, Victoria is going to be cold again, Melbourne going for 1 degree,
00:25that would match what we had this morning in Melbourne, which was the coldest day in
00:29a couple of years.
00:31As for South Australia, likely to be not quite as chilly on Thursday as what it was on Wednesday
00:36when Adelaide kicked off the day at 0.6 degrees, which was one of the coldest days in the past
00:41hundred years there.
00:43It will be a chilly start through central parts of the country on Thursday as well.
00:47And then a cool afternoon, many places between 11 and 15 degrees across southern Australia
00:52for the Thursday afternoon maximum temperatures, a little bit higher along the coastline but
00:57still breezy and cloudy in Sydney and Brisbane and that is going to be keeping those temperatures
01:01feeling a little cooler than what you see here on the map.
01:04Now at this time of year I don't really like to use the word warmer because it's not warm
01:08on Friday morning, it's still winter, it's still a cold morning but perhaps a little
01:12milder or not as cold as what it was earlier in the week as most places on Friday morning
01:18see their temperatures 1 or 2 degrees higher than what they were earlier in the week and
01:22the same holds true for the afternoon as well.
01:24Temperatures 1 or 2 degrees higher than where they were on both Wednesday and Thursday as
01:29we do see these marginally more mild conditions come in before the weekend.
01:33So that's temperature, how about rainfall?
01:35Well the main weather system driving the patterns around the country this week are these big
01:40high pressure areas across the south and high pressure doesn't bring a lot of rainfall and
01:45that's the case through this week.
01:46We're not seeing a lot of rainfall but there's always a few spots to watch out for, so for
01:50Thursday it's a little low down here in southern WA to bring some rain there but aside from
01:55that we're really looking at the east coast of the country, onshore flow.
01:59We've seen it a lot over the past couple of months and that just means that the wind is
02:02pushing from the ocean to the land and it's bringing showers with it and the wind follows
02:07these white isobar lines and we will see those showers push onto the country all the way
02:12from the southern New South Wales coast all the way up to the northern tropical coast
02:16of Queensland.
02:17Now it's not heavy rain, it's not extensive widespread flooding rain but it is just these
02:22intermittent spells of wet weather again on Thursday, then again on Friday along this
02:27eastern coastline with all spots likely to pick up at least a couple of showers.
02:31Elsewhere we will see a broader area of rain on Friday develop through the centre of the
02:35country, initially just around the pastoral districts in northern parts of South Australia,
02:40and potentially the Eyre Peninsula as well, but we'll also see some spotty wet weather
02:44before the end of the day in far western Queensland and perhaps southern parts of the NT.
02:49Now this region of rain developing through the centre of the country to round out the
02:52week will become a more significant weather system through the weekend and into next week
02:57as the rain gets more widespread, a little heavier, and eventually moves east across
03:01these eastern states.
03:03But for now it's just a little bit of patchy rain through the middle over the next couple
03:07of days.
03:08In terms of which, here's the total forecast rainfall from Wednesday through to Friday,
03:12that's the next three days of rain all on one map, and I really just wanted to look
03:15at the east coast of New South Wales because that's where we'll probably see the largest
03:18accumulations over that three day span, even if it's only 10 to 20mm each day we could
03:24see 50mm through the second half of the week for coastal parts of the Illawarra, the Hunter,
03:28the Mid North Coast, up to the Northern Rivers and even South East Queensland.
03:34And a look at how much rain we might get out of that system developing on Friday.
03:38Not a lot, remembering that the green and blues, that's single digit rainfall total,
03:41so 5 to 10mm over large parts of the pastoral districts, potentially 15 to 25mm here through
03:48northern parts of the Eyre Peninsula.
03:50But that will be more significant next week, so do keep an eye on your longer range weather
03:54forecast at the Bureau website and app, thank you very much for checking in.