While it’s far from uncommon to see storms and lightning in the northern parts of the country as the build-up to the wet season gathers pace, it’s very rare that at least part of every single state and territory would see storms and lightning concurrently.
But that was the situation on Saturday evening, as the Weatherzone radar image taken at 7pm AEDT (below) shows, with the small silver cross symbols representing lightning strikes associated with thunderstorms.
As you can see, there were lightning strikes occurring concurrently across Australia – from the tropics of Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland, down through normally dry northern South Australia, in central and eastern New South Wales, and all the way down to southern Victoria and northern Tasmania.
In everyday terms, the moist atmosphere has contributed to some extremely heavy falls, with the SA town of Naracoorte copping its heaviest day of November rainfall in 25 years – as you can see in the dramatic footage in the video at the top of this story.
“I’m on the Central Highlands and we haven’t seen much rain for many months,” farmer Renée from central Queensland told 9News.
“We are now sitting at 157.2mm of rainfall over three days. This is good news across our valley.”
Stormy weather is expected to start to ease off in many parts of the country on Sunday and into the new week.
A maximum of 39°C is expected in Perth on Sunday, before conditions start to ease with milder temperatures by Monday.
Source: 9news.com.au
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