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Forecast issued at 4:30 pm EDT on Tuesday 8 October 2024.
Weather Situation
A gusty southerly change has reached the northern border, while a high pressure system centred over the Bight extends a ridge over the western inland. The high is expected to cross the Bass Strait and reach the Tasman Sea on Wednesday. After this, a cold front is forecast to sweep the south of the state and bring a gusty southerly change to the coast on Friday.
Forecast for the rest of Tuesday
Scattered showers about the north coast. Thunderstorms possible about elevated parts of the Hunter and New England and severe storms about the Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers. The main risks in severe storms are for damaging winds and large hail. Drizzly conditions on the remainder of the east coast and dry conditions inland. South to southwesterly winds along the western slopes and adjacent inland plains. South to southeasterly winds on the coast, fresh at times.
Wednesday 9 October
Isolated showers across the northern half of the coast and adjacent ranges becoming more scattered closer to the border. Thunderstorms are possible along the far north coast, northern ranges, slopes and inland plains during the afternoon and evening. Severe storms are possible along the northern slopes bringing damaging winds and large hailstone with the likelihood being higher closer to the Queensland border. Dry and mostly sunny elsewhere. Morning frost along the southern and central ranges and the southern inland. Daytime temperatures well below average in the east and only slightly below average west of the Divide. East to southeasterly winds, fresh along the north coast and tending northeasterly along the southern coast in the afternoon.
Thursday 10 October
Isolated showers along the north coast and adjacent ranges. Small chance of a shower on the south coast in the evening. Partly cloudy elsewhere in the east, dry and mostly sunny in the west. Patchy morning frost about the southern ranges. Patchy fog along the central ranges. Daytime temperatures below average in the northeast and near or slightly above average elsewhere. Northeast to northwesterly winds, freshening in the south ahead of a gusty south to southwesterly change arriving in the evening.
Friday 11 October
Isolated showers along the coast and adjacent ranges. Dry west of the ranges. Patchy morning fog along the southern and central ranges. South to southwesterly winds west of the Divide and east to northeasterly along the coast turning south along the south coast later in the evening.
Saturday 12 October
Isolated showers on the northern half of the coast, becoming more scattered closer to the northern border. Thunderstorms are also possible along the north coast, adjacent ranges and slopes. Dry elsewhere, with increasing cloud in the far west during the day. Patchy morning fog along the ranges and frost along the far southern ranges. South to southeasterly winds inland and on the central and south coasts. Winds are northerly in the morning along the north coast, but turn south during the day as the southerly change reaches the northern border.
The next routine forecast will be issued at 4:30 am EDT Wednesday.
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