The next couple of days should see showers and thunderstorms over wide areas of NSW and southern Queensland. Certainly nice to see some more interesting weather at this time of year.
Looks like there may have been a lightning show along and off the coast from Sydney and south this morning.
It follows some storms reaching severe criteria in SA and TAS yesterday afternoon.
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Seven homes damaged in Tas storm
Monday May 26, 2008 - 20:04 ESTResidents and businesses in Burnie in Tasmania's north-west have started cleaning up after being hit by flash flooding in the past two hours.
A thunderstorm raged in Burnie for about an hour, causing flooding across the entire city.
The main street along the waterfront is under about 20 centimetres of water and sections have been closed off.
The ABC studios have been flooded and two hotels have been inundated and parts of the university campus on higher ground are also flooded.
At least seven homes in nearby in Somerset were damaged and State Emergency Services were called.
The Weather Bureau says 23 millimetres of rain fell in half-an-hour at Wynyard west of Burnie.
The north-west SES co-ordinator, Bevis Dutton, says resources are stretched, but anyone else needing help should call immediately.
"We have had a severe storm pass over Somerset with torrential rain," he said.
"A number of people have called in with roofs collapsed and a lot of water through their premises, and we understand there's a lot of water on the Bass Highway itself in the Somerset area."
Mr Dutton says he hopes there will be no more damage tonight.
- ABC
Heavy showers and storms drench South Australia
Press Release, Monday May 26, 2008 - 17:14 ESTCoastal districts of South Australia have been drenched by heavy showers and storms today, and Adelaide is in the firing line this evening, according to weatherzone.com.au.
Parawa picked up 28mm in the six hours between 9am and 3pm, with most of that falling between midday and 3pm. This has made it their wettest day in five months and wettest May day since 2004.
Cummins, on Eyre Peninsula, received 18mm in the same time period, including 11mm in 10 minutes between 12:05pm and 12:15pm. This was also their heaviest rain in five months.
"A slow moving trough of low pressure is combining with high levels of moisture and an approaching wave of colder air in the upper atmosphere to trigger these heavy showers and storms," weatherzone.com.au meteorologist Matt Pearce said.
"The upper level winds that are steering these storms are quite light, so they have been fairly slow moving. This is allowing some pretty high rainfall totals to build up."
The main area of rain and thunderstorms will move over Adelaide over the next few hours, leading to widespread falls of 10 to 20 millimetres across the metropolitan area. Locally higher falls of up to 50mm are possible.
A Road Weather Alert has been issued for Adelaide warning of the potential for flash flooding from these storms.
"The trough will move away to the east tomorrow, so we are likely to see showers and storms easing through the morning and mostly clearing by the afternoon," Pearce said.
- Weatherzone
