Australian Weather Forecast

For Wednesday

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MinMax
Fair
Adelaide

10°C

15°C

Mostly cloudy
Alice Springs

8°C

21°C

Partly cloudy
Brisbane

13°C

24°C

Clear skies
Broome

14°C

28°C

Fair
Cairns

18°C

25°C

Mostly cloudy
Canberra

2°C

11°C

Clear skies
Darwin

19°C

29°C

Fair
Hobart

4°C

8°C

Partly cloudy
Melbourne

8°C

12°C

Mostly cloudy
Perth

6°C

18°C

Clear skies
Sydney

9°C

19°C

National Summary

A cold front is bringing blustery winds, showers and small hail to SA, Tas and Vic. Showers for parts of Qld's east coast in moist onshore winds. A high is causing brisk winds to ease and most showers to clear in WA's south while keeping elsewhere dry.

State Forecasts

Forecasts for Wednesday

Warnings

NSW

Wed 22:51 AEST

Sheep Graziers Warning for Thursday for Snowy Mountains. Cancellation of Sheep Graziers Warning for Thursday for Central Tablelands

TAS

Wed 22:47 AEST

Severe Weather Warning (Damaging Winds) for parts of Western and South East

TAS

Wed 22:47 AEST

Severe Weather Warning (Damaging Winds) for parts of Western and South East

TAS

Wed 22:45 AEST

Road Weather Alert for snow covered Roads for Central Plateau and Western

TAS

Wed 22:44 AEST

Bush Walkers Weather Alert for Western and Central Plateau

TAS

Wed 22:44 AEST

Sheep Graziers Warning for Midlands, Upper Derwent Valley and South East

SA

Wed 21:30 ACST

Strong Wind Warning for Thursday for Lower South East Coast

NSW

Wed 22:00 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for Thursday for Hunter, Sydney, Illawarra and Eden coasts

VIC

Wed 22:00 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for East Gippsland Coast. Cancellation for Central and Central Gippsland coasts

TAS

Wed 22:00 AEST

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

ELDERS NEWS

News from across Australia

Huge pool of cold air surging towards SE Australia

A large pool of cold air with origins in the polar region is surging across the Great Australian Bight and is set to chill Tasmania and the southeastern corner of mainland Australia in coming days.

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The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) has gone negative – what this means for Australia

Plenty of Sydney sunshine and heavy rain and snow in Tasmania will be some of the impacts caused this week by a negative Southern Annular Mode (SAM) that has just developed in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Low-level snow coming to Tasmania this week

Snow could fall in higher parts of Hobart later this week as a polar air mass causes temperatures to plummet across Tasmania.

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Cold mornings and persistent fog chills southeastern Australia

A strong high pressure system has delivered some of the coldest weather in years across parts of Australia, with many residents reaching for an extra blanket overnight as freezing mornings gripped the southeast, as well as unusually chilly conditions extended far north into Western Australia and the Northern Territory under a very dry atmosphere.

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