A cold front and tropical moisture are teaming up to drag rain from coast to coast, across the desert, this week.An atmospheric river is set to bring widespread rain from the north-west to the south-east this week
According to senior forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology Sarah Scully, thunderstorms are forecast to develop on Thursday through south-west Queensland, central New South Wales and even central parts of Victoria.Then there is the rain. "So they are huge and when they hit mountains or interact with cold fronts, as we are about to observe, they rain out this water and can typically cause heavy rainfall, floods, snow and strong winds."Keen watchers of Australia's weather might be familiar with the term north-west cloud band. Such a phenomenon is associated but not quite the same thing.
An atmospheric river is feeding in tropical moisture from the north-west just as a cold front is pushing across the south of the country from west to east. According to Ms Reid, atmospheric rivers are not particularly uncommon because there is usually one in our region around once a week.Desert rainIt is a part of the world where rain gauges are few and far between but they have already recorded 31mm at the Bureau's weather station at Giles ."This is a really good news story for many … agricultural areas of South Australia ...
It is winter.
I hate it when that happens
Bugger I just put the clothes out
Sexy clouds!
Fascinating
lovely we need rain here
Atmospheric River. Well I be a dingos dinner I believe iv never heard that one.
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