South Australia Forecast

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Forecast issued at 4:30 pm CST on Thursday 8 June 2023.

Weather Situation

A broad westerly flow with embedded fronts will persist about the south for the rest of this week. A high pressure system in a ridge of high pressure over the north will maintain the westerly flow in the south. The high will move across NSW at the weekend with the flow tending northwesterly over SA ahead of an approaching front early next week.

Forecast for the rest of Thursday

Showers about the southern agricultural area and near western coasts, possibly reaching into the northern agricultural area late evening. Possible thunderstorms about coastal fringes. Cool to mild with fresh and gusty northwest to westerly winds in the south, tending light to moderate west to southwesterly in the north.

Friday 9 June

Showers about the agricultural area, easing and contracting to southern coasts and ranges by evening. The chance of small hail about the Lower South East in the morning. Cool to mild. Fresh and gusty winds in the south moderating during the day. Light winds in the north.

Saturday 10 June

Partly cloudy in the south with isolated showers about the southern agricultural area, mostly contracting to southern coasts and ranges during the morning. Cloud increasing in the far northwest. Cool to mild with light winds tending northeast to northwesterly about the agricultural areas and in the west.

Sunday 11 June

Isolated showers about the north. Partly cloudy in the south with isolated showers about southern coasts. Mild throughout. Northeast to northwesterly winds, shifting westerly in the west during the afternoon and evening.

Monday 12 June

Showers developing about the southwest and extending across the agricultural area and south of the Pastoral districts during the day, reaching eastern districts in the evening. Isolated thunderstorms developing about southern coasts, extending to Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island during the evening. Mild to warm initially with northerly winds, shifting cooler west to southwesterly from the west, reaching central parts in the evening. Cumulative rainfall totals until the end of Monday are expected to be generally less than 2 mm, increasing to 2 to 5 mm about the southern agricultural area and west coasts, and to 5 to 15 mm about windward coasts and ranges and the Lower South East, with local falls of 10 to 20 mm about windward coasts and ranges possible.

Tuesday until Thursday

Showers about the agricultural area and south of the Pastoral districts, contracting to the southern agricultural area on Wednesday. Isolated thunderstorms about the southeast on Tuesday, contracting east and clearing by evening. Cool to mild with moderate west to southwesterly winds, fresh at times in the south on Tuesday. Winds shifting northerly from the west on Wednesday, extending throughout on Thursday before shifting westerly in the west later.

The next routine forecast will be issued at 5:30 am CST Friday.

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