Australian Weather Forecast

For Friday

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MinMax
Fair
Adelaide

13°C

21°C

Clear skies
Alice Springs

19°C

34°C

Clear skies
Brisbane

19°C

27°C

Fair
Broome

28°C

32°C

Partly cloudy
Cairns

23°C

31°C

Clear skies
Canberra

7°C

22°C

Mostly cloudy
Darwin

28°C

33°C

Mostly cloudy
Hobart

9°C

17°C

Fair
Melbourne

11°C

21°C

Fair
Perth

16°C

29°C

Clear skies
Sydney

14°C

23°C

National Summary

A cold front will bring showers and gusty winds to Tas and coastal Vic. Moisture should combine with heatwave conditions over the northern tropics to bring thunderstorms, extending into inland northwest WA. High pressure keeps the remainder dry and settled.

State Forecasts

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Warnings

QLD

Thu 20:17 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for Gold Coast Waters

WA

Thu 17:05 AWST

Cancellation Of Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Pilbara, Gascoyne and South Interior districts

WA

Thu 17:05 AWST

Cancellation Of Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Pilbara, Gascoyne and South Interior districts

NSW

Thu 17:07 AEDT

Sheep Graziers Warning Snowy Mountains. Cancelled Sheep Graziers Warning Central Tablelands, Southern Tablelands & South West Slopes

TAS

Thu 17:06 AEDT

Bush Walkers Weather Alert for Western and Central Plateau

VIC

Thu 16:15 AEDT

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

NSW

Thu 16:05 AEDT

Strong Wind Warning for Byron, Coffs, Macquarie, Hunter, Sydney, Illawarra, Batemans and Eden coasts

TAS

Thu 16:05 AEDT

Strong Wind Warning Banks Strait & Franklin Sound, East of Flinders Island & Central North, South East, South West & Central West coasts

WA

Thu 13:01 AWST

Strong Wind Warning for Perth Local Waters & Geraldton, Lancelin, Perth and Bunbury Geographe coasts

WA

Thu 13:00 AWST

Heatwave Warning Western Australia

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