Saturday 11th of January 8.57a.m. We had some hefty downpours around midnite and the garden is looking pretty springy today. Light 5.5 / 7.4kph SSE, Hg 70%, 21.3C / 70.3F top of 23C / 73F. Cloud 6 Oktas. Rain easing to showers.
Moon is 93%
Eastern Australia braces for weekend of flooding rains, thunderstorms and a heatwave
3 hours ago
By ABC meteorologist Tom Saunders
Australia is now in the peak of the severe weather season, and this weekend will offer up an assortment of atmospheric extremes from torrential rain and powerful afternoon thunderstorms to a sprawling heatwave.
The heaviest rain this weekend should fall across eastern Queensland and north-east New South Wales, where isolated totals could exceed 100 millimetres.
In the meantime, warm and humid tropical air will spread down the entire east coast and trigger thunderstorms from central Queensland to Tasmania.
And the wet and stormy weekend could be a sign of what's ahead for the rest of summer as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirms La Niña conditions have emerged in the Pacific Ocean. And the Bureau Of Meteorology's (BOM) seasonal outlooks continue to favour above median rainfall through the coming months.
And while the eastern seaboard ducks for cover, a heatwave will spread across half the country from the western interior to the tropical Queensland coast.
Only the mozzies will be happy about this.
