Australian Weather Forecast

For Friday

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MinMax
Mostly cloudy
Adelaide

8°C

14°C

Fair
Alice Springs

5°C

16°C

Clear skies
Brisbane

12°C

22°C

Mostly cloudy
Broome

19°C

29°C

Clear skies
Cairns

17°C

25°C

Clear skies
Canberra

-2°C

10°C

Mostly cloudy
Darwin

22°C

30°C

Mostly cloudy
Hobart

5°C

11°C

Fair
Melbourne

8°C

14°C

Clear skies
Perth

7°C

18°C

Clear skies
Sydney

7°C

16°C

National Summary

A front will bring strong winds & showers to Tas, Vic's south & SA's south. A high will cause brisk winds to ease & for most showers & alpine snowfalls to clear in NSW & SA. The high will clear skies in much of the inland & east & west coasts, leading to a cold morning & dry day.

State Forecasts

Forecasts for Friday

Warnings

TAS

Wed 16:31 AEST

Strong Wind Warning Banks St & Franklin Sound, East of Flinders Is, Fred Hen Bay & Norfolks, Storm & Far NW, CN, Lower E, SE, SW & CW coasts

VIC

Wed 16:15 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for Central, Central Gippsland and East Gippsland coasts

TAS

Wed 16:11 AEST

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

TAS

Wed 16:11 AEST

Bush Walkers Weather Alert for Western and Central Plateau

NSW

Wed 16:05 AEST

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

SA

Wed 15:30 ACST

Strong Wind Warning for Thursday for Lower South East Coast

WA

Wed 13:01 AWST

Strong Wind Warning for Thursday for Pilbara Coast East, Pilbara Coast West & West Kimberley Coast

NSW

Wed 11:01 AEST

Sheep Graziers Warning for Thursday for Central Tablelands and Snowy Mountains

TAS

Wed 11:00 AEST

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

TAS

Wed 10:49 AEST

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

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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