Australian Weather Forecast

For Thursday

NOWFRISATSUNMON
MinMax
Rain showers
Adelaide

8°C

14°C

Clear skies
Alice Springs

6°C

18°C

Partly cloudy
Brisbane

13°C

24°C

Clear skies
Broome

17°C

29°C

Fair
Cairns

18°C

25°C

Mostly cloudy
Canberra

2°C

11°C

Clear skies
Darwin

20°C

30°C

Fair
Hobart

4°C

8°C

Partly cloudy
Melbourne

8°C

12°C

Clear skies
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 Thursday

Warnings

TAS

Thu 04:39 AEST

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

TAS

Thu 04:39 AEST

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

TAS

Thu 04:39 AEST

Bush Walkers Weather Alert for Western and Central Plateau

TAS

Thu 04:32 AEST

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

TAS

Thu 04:32 AEST

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

SA

Thu 03:40 ACST

Strong Wind Warning for Lower South East Coast

VIC

Thu 04:10 AEST

Gale Warning for Central, Central Gippsland and East Gippsland coasts. Strong Wind Warning for West Coast

NSW

Thu 04:00 AEST

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

TAS

Thu 04:00 AEST

Gale Warning Banks St & Franklin Sound, East of Flinders Is, Channel & Far NW, CN, Upper East, Lower E, South East, South West & CW coasts

QLD

Thu 03:27 AEST

Road Weather Alert for reduced visibility in fog for Brisbane

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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