Australian Weather Forecast

For Thursday

NOWMONTUEWEDTHU
MinMax
Partly cloudy
Adelaide

8°C

17°C

Clear skies
Alice Springs

7°C

23°C

Clear skies
Brisbane

11°C

22°C

Clear skies
Broome

17°C

29°C

Partly cloudy
Cairns

17°C

25°C

Fair
Canberra

0°C

13°C

Fair
Darwin

21°C

30°C

Fair
Hobart

5°C

14°C

Partly cloudy
Melbourne

8°C

15°C

Clear skies
Perth

8°C

20°C

Clear skies
Sydney

6°C

17°C

National Summary

A weakening trough will bring showers to parts of southern and western WA. Onshore winds will send showers onto the Qld coast, western Tas, and coastal Vic. Otherwise dry under high pressure.

State Forecasts

Forecasts for Thursday

Warnings

QLD

Sun 18:05 AEST

Hazardous Surf Warning for Gold Coast Waters

QLD

Sun 18:05 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for Torres Strait & Peninsula and Cooktown coasts. Cancellation for Cairns Coast

NSW

Sun 17:12 AEST

Hazardous Surf Warning for Byron, Coffs, Macquarie, Hunter, Sydney, Illawarra, Batemans and Eden coasts

NSW

Sun 17:05 AEST

Cancellation of Sheep Graziers Warning for Snowy Mountains

VIC

Sun 16:15 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for West Coast

TAS

Sun 16:05 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for Far North West Coast. Cancellation for South West and Central West coasts

SA

Sun 15:30 ACST

Strong Wind Warning Investigator Strait & Central, South Central, Upper South East & Lower South East coasts. Cancelled Lower West Coast

National

Sun 15:12 AEST

Gale Warning 7 For Southern Area

WA

Sun 13:01 AWST

Strong Wind Warning for Monday for Esperance Coast

NSW

Sun 10:03 AEST

Cancelled Road Weather Alert for Canberra

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