Australian Weather Forecast

For Saturday

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MinMax
Heavy rain showers
Adelaide

11°C

15°C

Clear skies
Alice Springs

6°C

15°C

Mostly cloudy
Brisbane

15°C

24°C

Clear skies
Broome

14°C

26°C

Fair
Cairns

19°C

26°C

Cloudy
Canberra

5°C

12°C

Clear skies
Darwin

23°C

30°C

Rain
Hobart

7°C

12°C

Rain
Melbourne

11°C

14°C

Fair
Perth

7°C

17°C

Cloudy
Sydney

13°C

19°C

National Summary

Rain & storms, some heavy, should extend from the country's southeast to the northern tropics, in a trough ahead of a slow-moving low. Blustery showery winds are likely to persist in Vic, SA & WA's south in the wake of the low. Isolated showers & moist winds in the NE tropics.

State Forecasts

Forecasts for Saturday

Warnings

SA

Tue 22:59 ACST

Severe Weather Warning (Heavy Rainfall) for Lower Eyre Peninsula, Eastern Eyre Peninsula & West Coast & North West Pastoral districts

SA

Tue 22:59 ACST

Severe Weather Warning (Heavy Rainfall) for Lower Eyre Peninsula, Eastern Eyre Peninsula & West Coast & North West Pastoral districts

SA

Tue 21:30 ACST

Strong Wind Warning for Wednesday for Spencer Gulf & Far West, Upper West, Lower West, Central and South Central coasts

VIC

Tue 22:00 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for Wednesday for Port Phillip

WA

Tue 19:01 AWST

Strong Wind Warning for Esperance Coast. Cancellation for Pilbara Coast West & Eucla Coast

QLD

Tue 21:00 AEST

Strong Wind Warning for Peninsula, Cooktown, Townsville and Mackay coasts. Cancellation for Cairns Coast

WA

Tue 16:48 AWST

Severe Weather Warning (Damaging Winds And Heavy Rainfall) for parts of South East Coastal district

WA

Tue 16:48 AWST

Severe Weather Warning (Damaging Winds And Heavy Rainfall) for parts of South East Coastal district

WA

Tue 16:41 AWST

Sheep Graziers Warning for South East Coastal. Cancellation of Sheep Graziers Warning for Great Southern and Central Wheat Belt

National

Tue 15:52 AEST

Final Gale Warning 8 For Southern Area

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