Australian Weather Forecast

For Wednesday

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MinMax
Clear skies
Adelaide

8°C

16°C

Mostly cloudy
Alice Springs

8°C

15°C

Clear skies
Brisbane

14°C

21°C

Clear skies
Broome

19°C

29°C

Partly cloudy
Cairns

20°C

24°C

Drizzle
Canberra

1°C

12°C

Clear skies
Darwin

22°C

31°C

Mostly cloudy
Hobart

4°C

12°C

Mist
Melbourne

6°C

12°C

Fair
Perth

8°C

21°C

Mostly cloudy
Sydney

11°C

17°C

National Summary

South to southeasterly winds are bringing showers to eastern parts of Qld and NSW. A trough over WA's northeast interior is triggering showers and storms. A trough over far southwest Qld is bringing the odd shower. High pressure keeps elsewhere settled.

State Forecasts

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Warnings

QLD

Wed 05:53 AEST

Hazardous Surf Warning for Sunshine Coast Waters, Gold Coast Waters & K'gari Coast

NSW

Wed 05:21 AEST

Severe Weather Warning (Damaging Surf) for Lord Howe Island

TAS

Wed 04:07 AEST

Road Weather Alert for icy Roads for Central North, Midlands, Upper Derwent Valley and Central Plateau

NSW

Wed 04:00 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for Byron Coast. Cancellation for Coffs Coast

National

Wed 03:43 AEST

Gale Warning 8 For Southern Area

National

Wed 03:40 AEST

Gale Warning 7 For Western And Southern Areas

NSW

Wed 03:29 AEST

Hazardous Surf Warning for Byron, Coffs, Macquarie, Hunter, Sydney and Illawarra coasts

QLD

Wed 03:00 AEST

Strong Wind Warning Torres St, Sun Cst Waters, Gold Cst Waters & Peninsula, Cooktown & Cairns coasts. Cancelled K'gari, Townsville & Mackays

SA

Tue 16:27 ACST

Frost Warning for Lower South East

VIC

Tue 16:57 AEST

Frost Warning for Mallee, Wimmera, Northern Country, North Central, North East, South West and Central

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