Australia's weather will serve up a smorgasbord of variability this weekend, with an expected drenching for the east, wintry nights in the southern states and ongoing heat in the west.
Australia's weather will serve up a smorgasbord of variability this weekend, including another bout of heavy rain for the eastern seaboard.
The rain will result from a similar set-up to the previous deluge – a humid airstream off the Tasman and Coral seas clashing with a mass of cold air over the inland.But thankfully a repeat of the severe floods which ravaged Sydney and the Illawarra is unlikely due to a low pressure system forming well offshore, as opposed to a fortnight ago when a low developed right on the coast.
The bureau currently indicates there is only a 10 per cent chance the low will deepen into a cyclone, however regardless of the system's status, its movement is still of critical importance. The drop in cyclone numbers this century is the result of climate change shifting the structure of broadscale tropical circulations, despite the warmer waters providing extra energy to fuel stronger systems.
Melbourne and Adelaide can expect the coldest temperature so far this year between Saturday morning and Monday, and while a brief spell of warmer northerly winds will arrive during Monday and Tuesday, cool southerlies will again return to southern states by midweek.The last six months has been the warmest and driest on record for western parts of WA.
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