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Australia's Christmas extremes

Brett Dutschke, Tuesday December 23, 2014 - 15:51 AEDT

Forecasts still suggest Christmas Day in Australia will be typically hot, humid and thundery in the north, windy in the south, wet in the southeast and dry and warm on the west coast.

With only two days to go, our computer models are still telling us that a front will cross southern Australia, bringing a cooler, gusty change while a low pressure trough causes showers and storms in the southeast and north of the country.

Potential extremes are -

Hottest - 30-degree minimum at Broome in Western Australia's north and Windorah in Queensland's west and 42-degree maximum at Julia Creek and Winton in Queensland's west
Coldest - 3-degree minimum and 11-degree maximum at Mt Read in Tasmania's west
Wettest - 60mm in the Moree area in New South Wales' north and the Jabiru area in the Northern Territory's north
Cloudiest - 2 hours of sunshine at Birdsville in Queensland's far west and Tennant Creek in the NT's interior
Sunniest - 14 hours of sunshine in Perth in WA's southwest
Windiest - 80km/h at Neptune Island in South Australia's south
Calmest - 20km/h at Tenterfield in New South Wales' north

As we get closer to the day, models will change and accuracy will improve, giving us different places and amounts, so stay tuned for updates.

Capital cities' Christmas forecasts appear on the weatherzone.com.au homepage.

- Weatherzone

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