The national weather forecast predicts that storms will continue on the east coast and that WA is set to experience a cool change. Video by The Bureau of Meteorology
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00:00Hello and Happy New Year from the Bureau.
00:02Today's the 2nd of January and yesterday,
00:05the first day of the year,
00:06brought us severe thunderstorms and flash flooding
00:08for parts of Queensland,
00:10intense heat in Western Australia,
00:12even a beautiful aurora visible from southern areas
00:15overnight last night.
00:16But in between all of that,
00:18there was plenty of settled,
00:20sunny, fine weather across the country
00:22and that's really the trend that is continuing
00:24as we look ahead to the weather forecast for Friday.
00:27And this high pressure over here,
00:29east of Bass Strait,
00:30is really controlling conditions
00:32across the eastern half of the country.
00:33It will push showers onto the northern New South Wales
00:36and Queensland coast,
00:38but by the same token,
00:39will bring fine weather over inland parts of those states,
00:42as well as fine and warming weather
00:44across South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania.
00:47Meanwhile, on the western side of the country,
00:49a cooler wind change has moved through,
00:51which will be welcome relief
00:52after the very hot weather there in recent days.
00:56Let's fly around the states
00:58and it has been very stormy over the last few days
01:00for central Queensland,
01:01but on Friday, the peak of the storm activity,
01:04the most widespread and vigorous storms
01:06are expected to move out to the east coast,
01:08particularly between Rockhampton and Cairns,
01:11where we could see some severe thunderstorms
01:13that may bring heavy rain and flash flooding
01:16along this stretch of coast here.
01:17Further south across the southeast,
01:19storm risk looks low,
01:21but a few showers expected around Brisbane
01:23and the rest of southeast Queensland.
01:25Not too much rain there,
01:26with plenty of sunny breaks as well.
01:29Inland, it is hot, sunny and dry.
01:32We've seen a lot of storms
01:33across New South Wales recently as well,
01:35but the area of storms on Friday
01:36is shrinking away to the north.
01:38We could still see some thunderstorms
01:40over the northern Tablelands and the northern rivers,
01:43potentially north of about Coffs Harbour,
01:45but the storm risk is way down everywhere else.
01:48A couple of showers possible
01:49for the central and southern coastline,
01:51lots of clear, dry breaks of weather
01:54throughout the day on Friday for those areas,
01:56with just minimal rainfall totals expected,
01:58but temperatures are a good few degrees cooler
02:01than the usual January maximums,
02:03a high of 26 in Sydney.
02:05It is warm inland though,
02:0630 for Canberra and 35 to 37 for many western parts.
02:11A clear sunny day expected on Friday
02:13right across Victoria,
02:14a touch of a chilly morning,
02:16but the afternoon highs really warming up nicely,
02:1829 across Melbourne,
02:20mid-30s for northern parts of the state.
02:24And a little bit of a chilly morning for Tasmania,
02:26about five or six degrees in some areas,
02:28then a cracking day of clear, summery weather.
02:31Temperatures into the mid-20s.
02:33If you're hoping for rain,
02:35there is nothing there for you on Friday, I'm afraid,
02:38but other than that,
02:39the weather should not disrupt any plans at all.
02:43South Australia starting to warm up again on Friday,
02:45the first real wave of heat for the year coming on Friday,
02:49then continuing into the weekend.
02:50So we'll see temperatures from the mid-30s
02:53to the low 40s across the state.
02:55That will bring us some elevated fire danger
02:57across many areas,
02:59potentially extreme fire danger
03:01around the Mount Lofties near Adelaide,
03:03with a bit of increased wind across that region.
03:06And out to Western Australia now,
03:08slightly cooler southwest winds
03:10across the southwest land division here.
03:13Brings temperatures back into the high 20s
03:15after they have been in the high 30s for the last few days.
03:19So a nice, pleasant day around Perth.
03:21Generally across this part of Western Australia,
03:23very little rainfall on Friday,
03:25maybe a couple of millimetres around the south coast,
03:27particularly Esperance,
03:29and one or two storms could develop
03:31across the southern interior here,
03:33as well as around the far northwest,
03:34but very scattered rainfall,
03:36with most places seeing nothing at all.
03:39And for Northern Australia on Friday,
03:41an actual increase in storm activity
03:43across the top end of the Northern Territory
03:46through Friday afternoon.
03:48That could bring areas of heavy rain and flash flooding
03:51around the Northern NT,
03:52but it will also bring temperatures down a couple of degrees
03:55after we have seen heatwaves there
03:57over the last week or so.
03:59Elsewhere across the central and southern desert areas,
04:02no such rain is coming.
04:04It's another hot, dry day there
04:05with temperatures of around 40 degrees,
04:07and humid without much rain for Northern WA.
04:11So if you wanna see how the weather continues
04:13through Friday and into the weekend,
04:14find your local forecast on the Bureau website and app.
04:17Thanks for watching.
04:18Have a great day.