Weather Alert: Showers Hit South and East

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Showers along the east coast and a front crossing the Bight. G'day from the Bureau. David here with your forecast for tomorrow, Tuesday August 18th.

Let's take a look at the national map to start with. And there's two main features to keep an eye on here. This high over the southern Tasman Sea. It's pushing showers right up along the east coast.

And this front, which is crossing the south coast of Western Australia and into South Australia during Tuesday, that's going to bring showers, patchy rain and some thunderstorms to large parts of particularly South Australia, but also western New South Wales and western Victoria during tomorrow.

In the north, dry season continues with dry and mostly sunny conditions across most of the area.

Let's take a look around the grounds now, starting with Queensland, where we'll see a ridge of high pressure extend along the east coast. It's bringing quite cool south-easterly winds and plenty of showers to the coast.

More exposed parts like the Sunshine Coast and parts of the North Tropical Coast could see more than 20 mm of rain again tomorrow.

We can also see in the far south-west some showers and possibly a thunderstorm about the very far south-west corner there, but in between, plenty of dry and mostly sunny weather.

For Brisbane, a shower or two coming in from the south-east and a top of 21 °C.

For New South Wales and the ACT. Starting in the far west, we'll see showers and patchy rain and even a thunderstorm or two across the very far west of the state there, 5 to 15 mm of rain possible broadly there.

In the east, we'll see easterly winds pushing more showers ashore as well. And in between, about the western slopes, dry and partly cloudy. Just 1 or 2 showers around in the afternoon.

For Sydney, a shower or two and a top of 19 °C.

For Canberra, a shower or two as well and a top of 16 °C.

Down to Victoria, it's starting to feel a little like spring, with temperatures nudging 20 °C in parts of central and eastern Victoria tomorrow.

That's due to northerly winds bringing relatively warm air down from the interior.

Those northerly winds will strengthen during the day tomorrow, so it'll be a bit breezy at times, particularly in the west.

We'll see showers and patchy rain moving into western districts during the day and then central districts at night, including for Melbourne. So Melbourne, a top of 20 °C.

Plenty of sunshine to start with, but then some of that rain reaching the city, perhaps late in the evening tomorrow. And quite a breezy day for Melbourne.

Tasmania will see the influence of that warm northerly flow as well, with quite mild temperatures, showers as well about parts of the north coast and the east coast where it will be quite cloudy.

Drier further south and west. Hobart, a top of 18 °C and partly cloudy.

For South Australia, bands of showers and patchy rain extending east ahead of the cold front.

We'll see that cold front reach the west coast during the day and then extend through to the Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island later.

When it gets there, it'll bring some heavier showers and possibly a thunderstorm or two as well. Thunderstorms also in the mix for the north-east pastoral districts of SA.

For Adelaide, a top of 19 °C and showers on the forecast, although Adelaide should see some lengthy dry spells during the day.

For Western Australia, we'll see that front influence the south coast early in the day, bringing gusty winds and plenty of showers there, those will ease later.

As you head further north and inland and also along the west coast generally dry and partly cloudy. Perth, a top of 19 °C and cloudy skies there.

For the Top End.

We'll see a few patchy showers around the red centre at first, including for Alice Springs where there's a shower or two on the forecast there.

As you head further north, of course, it gets hotter and generally drier. Darwin, a sunny top of 33 °C. There's 1 or 2 showers about the north-eastern Top End otherwise.

That's all from us for now.

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