Australian Weather Forecast

For Friday

NOWSATSUNMONTUE
MinMax
Mostly cloudy
Adelaide

6°C

14°C

Clear skies
Alice Springs

6°C

16°C

Fair
Brisbane

11°C

22°C

Fair
Broome

21°C

29°C

Clear skies
Cairns

16°C

25°C

Clear skies
Canberra

-1°C

10°C

Mostly cloudy
Darwin

22°C

31°C

Rain
Hobart

4°C

11°C

Mostly cloudy
Melbourne

8°C

13°C

Clear skies
Perth

5°C

18°C

Clear skies
Sydney

6°C

16°C

National Summary

A front is bringing blustery winds & showers to SA, Tas, Vic & southern NSW. Highland snowfalls in Tas are easing. Showers for the far NE tropics in moist onshore winds. A strong high is keeping elsewhere dry with gusty SE winds, turning a chilly morning into a mostly sunny day.

State Forecasts

Forecasts for Friday

Warnings

TAS

Fri 10:56 AEST

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

NSW

Fri 10:55 AEST

Sheep Graziers Warning for Central Tablelands and Snowy Mountains. Cancellation of Sheep Graziers Warning for Southern Tablelands

TAS

Fri 10:54 AEST

Cancelled Road Weather Alert for Central Plateau and Western

NSW

Fri 10:00 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for Eden Coast

TAS

Fri 10:00 AEST

Gale Warning Banks Strait & Franklin Sound, East of Flinders Is & Far North West, Lower East, South East, South West & Central West coasts

SA

Fri 09:30 ACST

Strong Wind Warning for Lower South East Coast

VIC

Fri 09:37 AEST

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

WA

Fri 07:01 AWST

Strong Wind Warning for Pilbara Coast East, Pilbara Coast West & North Kimberley and West Kimberley coasts

QLD

Fri 09:00 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for South East Gulf of Carpentaria & Peninsula and Cooktown coasts

NT

Fri 08:30 ACST

Strong Wind Warning for Beagle Bonaparte, Arafura and Roper Groote coasts

ELDERS NEWS

News from across Australia

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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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