00:03Hello Northern Australia, it is Sunday the 8th of November and this is your weather update for the
00:06week ahead. Starting off just having a look at the mean sea level pressure chart, I wanted to let you
00:10know that we're going to see a lot of these sorts of little low central blobs and then troughs that
00:15extend out from them this week which is driving a lot of the rainfall that we're seeing. I know
00:19that there's also been some record-breaking heat up in the north with some heatwave warnings that
00:24have been issued for quite a while because those minimum overnight temperatures aren't backing off
00:28as much. There might be some reprieve this week hopefully for some of those areas but I'm still
00:33seeing a few more days of heatwave warnings being issued. If we have a look at where the rainfall
00:38totals are falling this week, along this sort of Northern Territory WA border we obviously have
00:43quite a bit of intense rainfall 25 to 50 mils that we're seeing with some localized pockets above 75
00:48mils and then we also have that in sort of this central southern Queensland area that extends up
00:52here into the northern coast. Okay so a bit of rain on the week, all of that rain that we're
00:57going to
00:58see and discuss this week, has the possibility of also becoming thunderstorms just so that you know
01:03that as we progress and have a look at the forecast. I want to start off though with the current
01:07warnings
01:07so we still have some moderate and minor flood warnings in central Queensland. These could be
01:14extended this week with some more of that extended rainfall and some moderate to major rainfall coming
01:19so I don't think the flooding is over yet. There might be some days of reprieve but I feel like
01:23those
01:23warnings will still likely be issued for a lot of the week. If we head here onto Tuesday I just
01:28want
01:28to show you where those heatwave warnings are being issued. I'm going to get rid of the fire risk
01:33warnings just so you know that we've obviously got high fire risk across a lot of western Queensland
01:37and a lot of western WA as well. Turning off the fire danger rating though, up in the north you
01:43can see
01:43that pretty much all of northern Queensland has a severe heatwave warning with some areas of extreme
01:48warnings being issued. If we go ahead here to Wednesday, again I'll turn off this fire danger
01:52rating, you can see that again northern Queensland is especially affected but then also around the
01:57Darwin region. So yeah there are heatwave warnings in place. Let's have a look at the rainfall, actually
02:03just talking about these heatwave warnings you can see this is Monday 2 p.m. So you know these are
02:09the temperatures are standard I suppose of what we would see but if we go into the wee hours of
02:15the
02:15morning here we go 3 a.m you can see let's see it's still 25 to 30 degrees which is
02:20where those
02:20heatwave warnings are coming from the fact that it doesn't cool down overnight so that's what we're
02:24talking about there. Cool let's get into the day-by-day rainfall forecast. Right starting here on Monday
02:30you can see a lot of action in this region up to sort of what we got 25 to 50
02:36mils local as possible
02:37again thunderstorms likely. This is a little low pressure center here as well as here and this is
02:42connecting to a front down in the south so that's what's driving this long interior band of rain there
02:48on Monday. Same here for Tuesday a little bit lighter in the rainfall forecast. Queensland
02:53maybe a shower likely nothing and then northern WA probably a good shower there between one and five
03:00mils as possible. Wednesday we've got some pretty strong rainfall 25 to 50 mils again thunderstorms
03:07likely in the WA Northern Territory border down the south here but also across northern WA there is
03:12some moderate rainfall on the way here and through this central line of Queensland so Wednesday is
03:17definitely a day where there's moderate to severe rainfall risk on the way. Thursday similar story
03:22here maybe a little bit less intense across the Northern Territory but definitely in the central
03:27interior parts of WA and along these so yeah more central parts of Queensland maybe a little bit more
03:32intense. Friday most of that intensity is gone we're still seeing between one and ten mils available
03:38across many places of the north although WA is starting to dry out. Saturday WA in the coastal
03:45regions still dry and we still have this sort of arced band that we saw there for Saturday and very
03:51similar again for Sunday maybe slightly more intense 15 to 25 mils. All right that is the forecast for
03:57northern Australia so yeah more rain on the way as we enter our wet season but it's those hot temperatures
04:03without a lot of overnight reprieve that we're seeing that could be cause for concern for some areas.
04:07Just very briefly I will mention that there is some strong wind this week so if you are down
04:14it doesn't fully extend to the very tropical coastline but if you're in any of these interior
04:19parts of the country we're definitely seeing gusts over 40 kilometers an hour for multiple days this
04:24week so wind could definitely play a key part of your decision making this week. I'd have a look at
04:29the
04:29day-by-day breakdown if you've got any decisions related to that that are important. Okay do
04:33have a great week stay safe and we'll see you next time. Bye!
