Australian Weather Forecast

For Saturday

NOWSUNMONTUEWED
MinMax
Fair
Adelaide

12°C

20°C

Rain
Alice Springs

20°C

32°C

Severe thunderstorms
Brisbane

22°C

27°C

Clear skies
Broome

28°C

34°C

Fair
Cairns

23°C

31°C

Mostly cloudy
Canberra

15°C

23°C

Partly cloudy
Darwin

30°C

33°C

Cloudy
Hobart

13°C

20°C

Rain
Melbourne

13°C

17°C

Mostly cloudy
Perth

17°C

27°C

Cloudy
Sydney

20°C

30°C

National Summary

Low pressure troughs and unstable air masses are generating widely scattered showers and thunderstorms across the northern half of WA, the NT, Qld and northeast NSW. Bands of rain with troughs have moved from SA to NSW and Vic. Dry over much of WA's southeast in high pressure.

State Forecasts

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Warnings

QLD

Sat 15:52 AEST

Severe Thunderstorm Warning (Damaging Winds) for parts of Maranoa and Warrego and Darling Downs and Granite Belt

QLD

Sat 15:52 AEST

Severe Thunderstorm Warning (Damaging Winds) for parts of Maranoa and Warrego and Darling Downs and Granite Belt

NSW

Sat 16:49 AEDT

Severe Thunderstorm Warning (Damaging Winds, Hail & Heavy Rain) Upper Western, North West Slopes & Plains & Central West Slopes & Plains

NSW

Sat 16:49 AEDT

Severe Thunderstorm Warning (Damaging Winds, Hail & Heavy Rain) Upper Western, North West Slopes & Plains & Central West Slopes & Plains

VIC

Sat 16:15 AEDT

Strong Wind Warning for Central Gippsland and East Gippsland coasts

TAS

Sat 16:05 AEDT

Bush Walkers Weather Alert for Western

NSW

Sat 16:05 AEDT

Strong Wind Warning for Illawarra, Batemans and Eden coasts

TAS

Sat 16:05 AEDT

Strong Wind Warning Banks St & Franklin Sound, East of Flinders Is & CN, Lower E, South East & South West coasts. Cancelled Upper E Coast

VIC

Sat 16:03 AEDT

Sheep Graziers Warning for Central

WA

Sat 13:01 AWST

Severe Thunderstorm Warning (Damaging Winds, Large Hailstones And Heavy Rainfall) for parts of Central Wheat Belt district

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