Hello and happy Wednesday. It's Angus here at the Bureau of Meteorology. This is the national weather forecast with a focus on Thursday's weather forecast.
There’s plenty of fine patches around the country for Thursday, but definitely a few things to keep us on our toes – including this cold front across Tasmania. It is cold, wet and windy down there on Thursday. This trough line and general area of storminess extending through parts of South Australia, the Territory and Western Australia will continue to bring some wet weather to the interior on Thursday.
And one extra thing that you can’t really see on this map is the potential for a view of the aurora. That’s tonight and overnight – so late Wednesday into early Thursday – people between Sydney and Perth, or anyone south of that, may get a view of the aurora after dark tonight. Try and head to a dark area and look to the southern horizon if you’re interested in taking a peek.
For the country on Thursday – starting in Queensland – a mostly fine, settled and sunny day here. Twenty-seven degrees is the high for Brisbane and, broadly speaking, high twenties in the south-east, tending to low thirties up the coastline. In the afternoon, we could see some showers and storms develop over inland areas from the Maranoa and Warrego through the Central West, up towards the northern Goldfields and across the Cape York Peninsula. That could bring some moderate rainfall totals to some of those central areas.
New South Wales will have a fine day. It’s another fairly cool morning on Thursday, although not as cold as it was on Wednesday morning when we saw some record-setting minimum temperatures. After that fresh start, it’s much warmer in the afternoon – the sun comes out and really heats things up, heading towards 28 °C in Sydney, but that could be 30 °C for other parts of the east coast and mid-twenties to low thirties for inland and western areas.
Also a mostly fine day in terms of overhead weather for Victoria, although the wind will be blowing across the state – many places seeing gusts between 40 km/h and 50 km/h, and even slightly stronger in the mountains and far north. That will lead to some elevated fire danger, including the potential for some Extreme Fire Danger around the Mallee. Daytime temperatures are likely to be in the mid-twenties for most of the state, but there will be an afternoon wind change down south, which cools things off a couple of degrees and might bring a quick shower to the far south-west coast.
Cold, wet and windy on Thursday is the name of the game for Tasmania. We have some Damaging Wind Warnings across the north, east and south of the state, with winds gusting up to or over 100 km/h in those areas through parts of Thursday. There will be a spell of rain across the entire state, so no matter where you live, you’ll probably see a bit of wet weather – unless you’re up in the mountains, where that rain will fall as snow as the snow level lowers to about 600 m during Thursday.
For South Australia, there’ll be a band of showers and storms that starts off in the west and, through the morning, pushes into the Eyre Peninsula and then into the afternoon. While thunderstorms look less likely after lunch, we could see some showers throughout Adelaide, across the Murraylands and Riverland as well – fairly extensive wet weather through the second half of the day. In terms of how much rain falls though, it’s not a lot – between 2 mm and 5 mm for most areas, with higher totals of 15 mm to 20 mm possible around the Peninsula and western districts.
A fine and settled day is in store tomorrow for Western Australia, and it’s a little bit cooler than it has been through the week so far. That’s because a southerly wind has developed across the south of the state, from Geraldton southwards, and temperatures in those areas are back into the twenties after they’ve mostly been in the thirties earlier this week. There are some showers and thunderstorms expected in the far east of WA, and that continues across the Kimberley, the northern interior and into some southern parts of the Northern Territory. We could even see some severe thunderstorms – that means pockets of heavy rain or damaging wind around Uluru and Yulara, as well as other inland areas.
At this time of year, temperatures are always going to be at the high twenties at a minimum – most places are in the thirties, and some spots are reaching the high thirties, like Tennant Creek, heading towards 39 °C.
If you’d like any more weather info for this week or the weekend, you can hit the BOM Weather app or the Bureau of Meteorology website. Thanks very much for watching.
There’s plenty of fine patches around the country for Thursday, but definitely a few things to keep us on our toes – including this cold front across Tasmania. It is cold, wet and windy down there on Thursday. This trough line and general area of storminess extending through parts of South Australia, the Territory and Western Australia will continue to bring some wet weather to the interior on Thursday.
And one extra thing that you can’t really see on this map is the potential for a view of the aurora. That’s tonight and overnight – so late Wednesday into early Thursday – people between Sydney and Perth, or anyone south of that, may get a view of the aurora after dark tonight. Try and head to a dark area and look to the southern horizon if you’re interested in taking a peek.
For the country on Thursday – starting in Queensland – a mostly fine, settled and sunny day here. Twenty-seven degrees is the high for Brisbane and, broadly speaking, high twenties in the south-east, tending to low thirties up the coastline. In the afternoon, we could see some showers and storms develop over inland areas from the Maranoa and Warrego through the Central West, up towards the northern Goldfields and across the Cape York Peninsula. That could bring some moderate rainfall totals to some of those central areas.
New South Wales will have a fine day. It’s another fairly cool morning on Thursday, although not as cold as it was on Wednesday morning when we saw some record-setting minimum temperatures. After that fresh start, it’s much warmer in the afternoon – the sun comes out and really heats things up, heading towards 28 °C in Sydney, but that could be 30 °C for other parts of the east coast and mid-twenties to low thirties for inland and western areas.
Also a mostly fine day in terms of overhead weather for Victoria, although the wind will be blowing across the state – many places seeing gusts between 40 km/h and 50 km/h, and even slightly stronger in the mountains and far north. That will lead to some elevated fire danger, including the potential for some Extreme Fire Danger around the Mallee. Daytime temperatures are likely to be in the mid-twenties for most of the state, but there will be an afternoon wind change down south, which cools things off a couple of degrees and might bring a quick shower to the far south-west coast.
Cold, wet and windy on Thursday is the name of the game for Tasmania. We have some Damaging Wind Warnings across the north, east and south of the state, with winds gusting up to or over 100 km/h in those areas through parts of Thursday. There will be a spell of rain across the entire state, so no matter where you live, you’ll probably see a bit of wet weather – unless you’re up in the mountains, where that rain will fall as snow as the snow level lowers to about 600 m during Thursday.
For South Australia, there’ll be a band of showers and storms that starts off in the west and, through the morning, pushes into the Eyre Peninsula and then into the afternoon. While thunderstorms look less likely after lunch, we could see some showers throughout Adelaide, across the Murraylands and Riverland as well – fairly extensive wet weather through the second half of the day. In terms of how much rain falls though, it’s not a lot – between 2 mm and 5 mm for most areas, with higher totals of 15 mm to 20 mm possible around the Peninsula and western districts.
A fine and settled day is in store tomorrow for Western Australia, and it’s a little bit cooler than it has been through the week so far. That’s because a southerly wind has developed across the south of the state, from Geraldton southwards, and temperatures in those areas are back into the twenties after they’ve mostly been in the thirties earlier this week. There are some showers and thunderstorms expected in the far east of WA, and that continues across the Kimberley, the northern interior and into some southern parts of the Northern Territory. We could even see some severe thunderstorms – that means pockets of heavy rain or damaging wind around Uluru and Yulara, as well as other inland areas.
At this time of year, temperatures are always going to be at the high twenties at a minimum – most places are in the thirties, and some spots are reaching the high thirties, like Tennant Creek, heading towards 39 °C.
If you’d like any more weather info for this week or the weekend, you can hit the BOM Weather app or the Bureau of Meteorology website. Thanks very much for watching.
National weather forecast: Inland storms, wet in Tas
12 November 2025
Video current: 12:30 pm AEDT Wednesday 12/11/25.