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

23°C

Clear skies
Broome

22°C

29°C

Clear skies
Cairns

22°C

28°C

Mostly cloudy
Canberra

4°C

15°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 southwesterly airstream between a cold front clearing to the east an high pressure to the west is bringing gusty showers, small hail and alpine snow to southeast Aus. Onshore winds over north Qld is bringing some light showers. Dry and mostly clear elsewhere under the high.

State Forecasts

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Warnings

TAS

Fri 16:05 AEST

Strong Wind Warning Fred Hen Bay & Norfolk Bays, Storm Bay & Far North West, CN, Upper East, Lower East, South East & South West coasts

WA

Fri 13:01 AWST

Strong Wind Warning for Pilbara Coast East, Pilbara Coast West & Ningaloo Coast. Cancellation for West Kimberley Coast

NT

Fri 14:30 ACST

Cancellation of Wind Warning for Roper Groote Coast

QLD

Fri 15:00 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for Peninsula, Cooktown and Cairns coasts. Cancellation for South East Gulf of Carpentaria & Townsville Coast

NSW

Fri 10:56 AEST

Cancellation of Sheep Graziers Warning for Northern Tablelands, Illawarra, Central Tablelands, Southern Tablelands and Snowy Mountains

NSW

Fri 10:43 AEST

Severe Weather Warning (Damaging Winds) for parts of South Coast and Snowy Mountains

NSW

Fri 10:43 AEST

Severe Weather Warning (Damaging Winds) for parts of South Coast and Snowy Mountains

NSW

Fri 10:42 AEST

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

VIC

Fri 10:42 AEST

Severe Weather Warning (Damaging Winds) for parts of East Gippsland

VIC

Fri 10:42 AEST

Severe Weather Warning (Damaging Winds) for parts of East Gippsland

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