G'day from the bureau, David here to take a look at the weather around the country for tomorrow, the end of the working week.
The main features on the map, this big ridge of high pressure across the middle of the country that's going to bring beautiful, clear, sunny skies through New South Wales, southern Queensland, much of South Australia, as well as southern WA.
To the south of this high, we've got a cold front here that's going to slide across Tasmania during the day and then reach southern SA and western Victoria later in the day on Friday.
In the north, showers and storms continue north of the trough line here, and showers and storms also developing around this heat low in the Pilbara and inland WA on Friday.
Let's go around the grounds now, starting with Queensland, where beautiful blue skies are the order of the day right through southern Queensland and right up the east coast as well. Much cooler than the last couple of days for Brisbane and south-east Queensland in general, with south-easterly winds taking the edge off the temperatures, so a top of 28 °C in Brisbane. But that warmer air persists further north, so temperatures 2 to 6 degrees above average for central and northern Queensland. You see those temperatures reaching up into the mid-30s for all the major centres along the east coast: Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville and Cairns, both going for 33 °C. Showers and storms are confined really to only the far west of Queensland, where temperatures are really heating up into the 40s. So many of these northern districts are seeing Severe Heatwave conditions, which are persisting right through the week.
Down in New South Wales and for the ACT, beautiful blue skies pretty much state and territory-wide. A little bit of morning fog about the ranges, including possibly for Canberra, where there'll be a sunny top of 23 °C to follow that, and a mostly sunny top of 24 °C in Sydney. So beautiful conditions right across New South Wales and the ACT.
Now Victoria, another breezy day on the way as we'll see this cold front approach later. Temperatures around 20 °C, give or take a little in the south, and warming up in the north, reaching a top of 29 °C in Mildura. We'll see a couple of little showers around during the day in the south-west, and then those showers will thicken up and increase later in the day before reaching Melbourne late in the evening on Friday, as well as Gippsland. That front will then continue on Saturday morning across Victoria, and behind it much colder air, which will bring a cold outbreak on Saturday with snow down to about 800 m also on Saturday in Victoria.
For Tasmania, we'll see that front slide slowly across the island state during the course of Friday, so bringing persistent showers, bands of showers and patchy rain at times to all of Tasmania. Hobart, a top of 18 °C, with showers more likely in the first half of the day before drying out a little later, as those showers move further north along the east coast. And again, behind that front, much colder air, small hail in showers there and snow on the western tiers down to about 800 m late in the day on Friday, with colder conditions to come during Saturday.
For South Australia, a dry and sunny day for the most part. Still quite warm to hot in the north. Obviously much milder in the south. 20 °C on the forecast for Mount Gambier, with showers mainly confined to the south-eastern parts of the Southern Agricultural District later in the day on Friday as that front slides through there. Adelaide, mostly sunny, top of 23 °C, becoming a little windy later in the day, though, with maybe a possible shower late in the evening. Just as those showers and that front just clip the Adelaide area.
Over in Western Australia, a bit of a mixed bag here. Quite warm along the east coast, so Perth going for a top of 31 °C with north-westerly winds in place there. Much cooler on the south coast, where the winds will be coming from the south-east, and then inland. We'll see this heat trough that's going to be driving showers and thunderstorms through the Pilbara, into the interior and through the south-eastern district as well. Severe thunderstorms are possible with damaging winds about the inland parts of the Pilbara and extending down through into the interior as well on Friday afternoon and evening.
And in the Top End of the Northern Territory, lastly, we see that trough line that's going to delineate where the showers and storms are possible north of that trough line and up through the Top End. So a shower or two and a possible storm for Darwin, with a top of 35 °C, and really hot temperatures continuing around this trough system, where a Heatwave Warning remains in place for severe heatwave conditions across the Top End and into parts of the Northern Territory as well.
That's all we've got for you now. For now, enjoy your Friday. You can always find the latest warnings and forecasts on our website, on our app, and follow our social media channels for
