Category: Weather
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WEATHER: A FINE START TO THE WEEKEND
It’s partly cloudy along the coast today, but the shower activity has eased. Things will fine up even further across the Central Coast, Hunter and MNC. For now, it is still dry inland across the North West. The north eastern corner of NSW and south east QLD will still receive the occasional isolated shower. From…
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IMPRESSIVE OVERNIGHT RAIN FOR THE NORTHERN NSW COAST
Up to 80mm fell at Lake Ainsworth, 70mm at Minnie Water and Evans Head, Coffs and Cape Byron received 60mm. Some of the heaviest coastal rain for northern NSW since last April. About 1500 lighting strikes were also recorded with and impressive light show happening offshore. The active trough that has been causing the heavy…
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WEATHER: HEAVENS OPEN UP OVER THE GOLD COAST
This morning was a wash on the Gold Coast with an incredible 42mm falling in 40 minutes and within 3 hours half of Aprils average rainfall had been accumulated. Most of the rain came down as everyone was leaving to go to work. Some of the rain but no where near as heavy fell across…
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WEATHER: COASTAL SHOWERS ON THE WAY
A freshening southerly started to build along the coast this afternoon. This onshore airflow is going to settle in for most of the week. Cloud will build on the eastern slopes of the Great Divide to the beaches and showers are going to become a regular occurrence. It is on the western side of the…
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WEATHER: A LITTLE BIT OF WET WEATHER OVER THE WEEKEND
The blanket of cloud that engulfed the region today will largely clear for the Central Coast and Greater Hunter making for a predominantly fine weekend but further north a stalled trough line is going to help produce more rain in the form of patchy showers and a possible storm or two on the Northern NSW…
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WEATHER: TEMPERATURES SLOWLY DROPPING
PHOTO: Nic Rewitt taakes us under the sea at Newcastle’s Cowrie Hole. The southerly change moved through Newcastle at 2am. Today it was cooler and cloudy across the Central Coast and Hunter. Northern NSW and SE QLD is still very warm to hot as this latest southerly was yet again very weak. We are going to…
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WEATHER: SYDNEY’S HOTTEST APRIL DAY ON RECORD
Today Sydney ended up reaching 34.2 making it the hottest April day in 150 years of record taking. Averages for our region have been incredibly high for April, 4 to 9 degrees above normal. A cooler change is now making it’s way up the coast but it will run out of puff as it reaches…
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GAV’S WEATHER CHAT: APRIL HEAT
Temperatures remain way above average for April and tomorrow the heat will peak. Warm to hot NW winds will strengthen fighting to hold out the seabreeze along the coast. From Thursday a change will move in. Showers and storms will develop but it is far from a rain event which is desperately needed inland across…
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GAV’S WEATHER – VERY WARM START TO THE WEEKEND
Get out and enjoy tomorrow. Daylight saving ends on Sunday. Tomorrow is going to be warm and mostly sunny with North-West winds. On Sunday a southerly change will mostly affect the Central Coast and Newcastle delivering only a few small showers. Cover image courtesy Tim Knobbs of Woolgoolga, who took this photo of his dog…
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WEATHER: CLASSIC AUTUMN WEATHER IS HERE
PHOTO: Little Beach shot by Dyl. Classic Autumnal weather is finally here. Cool, crisp mornings followed by clear sunny days with low humidity, dust and pollen count. Morning westerly winds and afternoon seabreezes for the coast. This will continue until the new week begins.