The satellite images below show cloud associated with a cold front and low pressure system passing over southern Australia on Tuesday morning. Several days of rain and thunderstorms are about to soak southeastern Australia, adding more water to already flooded rivers in the Murray-Darling Basin. Today, 2:28AM UTC Murray-Darling Basin flood risk as rain returns to southeastern Australia It's going to stay good and windy too, so this system will feel seriously chilly until at least the weekend. But there is the potential for falls up to 10 mm or higher on each of the next few days. Not a huge amount of rain fell over SA overnight and into this morning in that rainband you can see above, with readings of just a few mm in Adelaide and surrounds. And as you can see in the image above, rain is also a feature of this system.Īs we've mentioned in another story today, there's a fair amount of rainfall expected over most of eastern Australia in coming days, with several days of rain and storms topping-up already flooded rivers in the Murray Darling Basin. So there's a mid-spring burst of very wintry weather for the southern half of SA which has already kicked off today in the state's southernmost parts. That'll change in coming days, as a series of fronts – each ushering in slightly cooler air than the next – pushes a frigid Southern Ocean airmass further north and drops Adelaide max temps to just 15☌ on Friday and Saturday. As you can see on the graphic below which shows live temps just before midday, the cool air hasn't yet penetrated too far north. Then just after 9 am local time, cooler air moved in with a cold front. The mercury actually kept rising in the small hours after midnight, touching 18☌ just after 6 am in what is usually the coldest hour of a typical 24-hour cycle. While at midnight, it was a comparatively balmy 15.9☌. The temperature in Adelaide was sitting on just 14.5☌ at midday. ![]() You know that a classic spring cold front has moved through South Australia when the middle of the day feels a lot colder than the middle of the night.Īnd that's exactly what has happened this Wednesday. Today, 2:55AM UTC Adelaide colder at midday than midnight
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