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A big chunk of Australia is in a “never-ending cycle” of frankly atrocious weather, forecasters have said, with a rinse and repeat pattern across southern Australia of strong winds, rain and chilly temperatures.
The rest of the week will see heavy rain and storms for Perth, more rain is due for Adelaide as the mercury gets set to plummet, it’s much the same in Melbourne, while Tasmania will struggle to get into a high of double digits in the coming days.
And yet there’s a winter heatwave in the centre of the country with Alice Springs set to peak at 33C in the coming days and Sydney could also be unseasonably warm.
Essentially the country is spilt in two. From Sydney up, it’s warm and dry. Below that line it’s cold and wet.
So let’s begin south of that weather frontier.
“Australia’s relentless weather pattern this month of wind storms, snow, repeat has continued in earnest this week,” said Sky News Weather meteorologist Alison Osborne.
Severe weather warnings for damaging winds are in place for South Australia including close to Adelaide, NSW along the Great Dividing Range as well as Wollongong and almost all of Victoria including Melbourne
This is due to a cold front sweeping in from Western Australia towards the east. As it brings blustery winds another front is brewing in the west which will also head east as the conveyor belt keeps on chugging along.
In Perth, expect heavy rain until at least Sunday with 10-15mm most days and possible storms on Friday and Saturday.
Temperatures will drop from a high of 20C on Thursday to 16C on Saturday with overnight lows of 12C down to 8C early on Saturday.
Windy with a possible shower in Adelaide on Wednesday evening. Thursday and Friday will be dry but then that next front comes through on the weekend bringing up to 10mm of rain on Saturday and more showers on Sunday.
A high of 19C on Friday will drop to just 15C on Sunday. Minimums of 7C early on Thursday and 9C on Sunday.
