With choking heat in the west and significant rain in the east, Australia is set to be bookended by weird weather in the coming days.
Showers and thunderstorms are set to unfold in southern, central and eastern parts of the country toward the end of the week, with a “desert soaking” forecast Thursday through to Sunday across some of the country’s driest parts.
“This will result from a pool of cold air from the Southern Ocean a few kilometres above the surface, moving north and interacting with tropical moisture from the north,”“The best rain will fall across western and northern South Australia, and southwest Queensland, where around 20 to 50mm is likely to fall, up about two months’ worth of rain for these regions.”
It’s the kind of weather system Australians can expect in the coming months, Mr Saunders said, “as La Nina becomes established in the Pacific, a phase which brings abundant rain to much of Australia”. Showers and thunderstorms are set to unfold in southern, central and eastern parts of the country toward the end of the week. Picture: Sky Weather
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