Showers and storms for the south-west of Australia
Warm temperatures are expected for much of the country.
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00:00Hello from the Bureau. It's Wednesday the 21st of August. We're going to look at the weather for the back half of this week.
00:06For the remainder of today, things looking reasonably settled across the country.
00:10We can see a big ridge of high pressure covering most of the continent, clear skies across the central parts of the country.
00:16That's really helping to bring the temperatures up and that's going to be a bit of a weather story for the next week or so.
00:21We'll get to that towards the end.
00:23We can see a bit of a lingering shower around the southeast of the country and as well
00:27around the southwest and a bit of a line of showers coming in this evening to the southeast of the country.
00:32It's not going to do much in terms of significant rainfall totals
00:35but it will keep that shower activity going through the exposed parts of SA, Vic and Tasmania.
00:40As we move into tomorrow, we can see a low pressure system move towards southwestern parts of WA there.
00:46Showers on the forecast for Perth from the morning period and as the low moves closer to the southwest
00:53during the afternoon and evening, do have a thunderstorm on the forecast for southern suburbs of Perth
00:58down to the southwestern capes of WA there.
01:01There's quite a bit of wind aloft with this system.
01:03We could see some of that drag down with some of the heavier showers and thunderstorms that are on the forecast.
01:08You'll need to keep an eye on the radar and our forecast as we get into tomorrow.
01:14Across in the east of the country for the rest of Thursday, you can see we do have a big ridge of high pressure
01:19keeping things largely pretty settled, although we do have the chance of a thunderstorm on the forecast
01:23around the Vic NSW border as well as up in the northeast of NSW.
01:28As we move into Friday, we can see this low start to move across the Bight.
01:32It does a couple of things with that.
01:34So it starts to concentrate some of the temperatures over the central parts of the country
01:38and begin to drag them down towards the south and southeast ahead of the weekend.
01:42I'll show you some of that temperature information in just a moment.
01:46By the time we get to later parts of Friday, we can see some of the shower activity associated with this trough
01:52pick up through southern parts of NSW, Vic and Tasmania,
01:55as well as another trough crossing southwestern parts of WA,
01:59keeping that shower and thunderstorm activity going a little bit longer.
02:03Now, as we move into late Friday, we can see a cold front sitting offshore of WA there.
02:08We're expecting that one to cross southwestern parts of WA on the Saturday.
02:13It's probably looking like the most significant system for that part of the world in the short to medium term.
02:18Likely we'll end up with some severe weather as this system crosses,
02:21so it'll be important to keep abreast of forecasts and warnings as we get closer to the time with that one.
02:26Now, I promised I'd talk about temperatures. We'll do that now.
02:29We can see temperatures across large parts of the country above average for this time of year,
02:34especially central parts of the country as we move into tomorrow.
02:38Now, as we move into Friday, as that low transits across the Bight,
02:41we can see some of these temperatures raise up just a little bit and move further south,
02:45so northern parts of South Australia here really bearing the brunt of those warmer temperatures on the Friday,
02:50and that trend continues into the weekend as these temperatures get dragged further to the southeast,
02:56with some August maximum temperature records potentially under threat in that part of the world over the weekend.
03:03That's all we've got for today.
03:04You can keep up to date with our warnings and forecasts on our weather app and on our website,
03:08and we'll see you next time.
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