Australian Weather Forecast

For Friday

NOWSATSUNMONTUE
MinMax
Cloudy
Adelaide

14°C

18°C

Clear skies
Alice Springs

7°C

17°C

Fair
Brisbane

13°C

21°C

Clear skies
Broome

22°C

29°C

Clear skies
Cairns

22°C

28°C

Mostly cloudy
Canberra

4°C

13°C

Clear skies
Darwin

21°C

32°C

Rain
Hobart

10°C

14°C

Cloudy
Melbourne

12°C

16°C

Clear skies
Perth

12°C

23°C

Clear skies
Sydney

9°C

20°C

National Summary

A wintry cold front is bringing strong winds, showers, small hail & highland snow to Tas, Vic & NSW. A large high is causing brisk winds to ease & most showers to clear in SA & southern WA, & is keeping the interior dry. Patchy rain is affecting WA's north & Qld in troughs.

State Forecasts

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Warnings

NSW

Fri 10:00 AEST

Gale Warning for Eden Coast. Strong Wind Warning for Sydney, Illawarra and Batemans coasts. Cancellation for Hunter and Macquarie coasts

TAS

Fri 10:00 AEST

Gale Warning for Upper East & Lower East coasts

SA

Fri 09:30 ACST

Cancellation of Wind Warning for Lower South East Coast

VIC

Fri 10:00 AEST

Gale Warning for Central Gippsland & East Gippsland coasts. Strong Wind Warning for Central Coast. Cancelled Western Port & West Coast

National

Fri 09:40 AEST

Gale Warning 8 For Southern And Southeastern Areas

WA

Fri 07:01 AWST

Gale Warning for Pilbara Coast East and Pilbara Coast West. Strong Wind Warning for West Kimberley and Ningaloo coasts

NT

Fri 08:30 ACST

Strong Wind Warning for Saturday for Roper Groote Coast

QLD

Fri 09:00 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for Peninsula, Cooktown, Cairns and Townsville coasts

NSW

Fri 06:40 AEST

Cancellation Severe Weather Warning (Damaging Winds) for Lord Howe Island

TAS

Fri 05:03 AEST

Severe Weather Warning (Damaging Winds) for parts of North West Coast, Central North, Central Plateau, Midlands and Western

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