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Thunderstorms light up desert sky in SA

Craig McIntosh, Thursday June 16, 2016 - 12:51 AEST

The night sky became electric and thunderstorms are continuing today as a low pressure trough travels across western and northern parts of South Australia.

The storms sparked up over western parts of the state around 8pm last night and remained very active into this morning, delivering good amounts of rainfall and generating plenty of lightning.

Woomera collected almost 16mm of rain overnight, a little more than the monthly average. Also in the North West Pastoral, Mount Ive recorded 23mm, their heaviest rain since November last year.

Roxby Downs continues to fill the buckets up with over 11mm falling so far today. The town is well on their way to exceeding the June rainfall average, and it is only halfway through the month.

Lightning was frequent as these storms tracked east. So far, over 90,000 strikes have been registered within a 500km radius of Tarcoola since the storms entered South Australia last night. Although still currently sparking up across eastern skyline, the storms are losing energy and lightning strikes are becoming less and less.

The storms are sticking to the north of Adelaide, however showers were pushed south within the trough. So far the capital has collected over 3mm since showers began around midnight.

The trough will continue to shift east and storm activity will weaken. It will, however, keep delivering widespread rain and further lightning on its journey into western parts of VIC and NSW.

- Weatherzone

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