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Tropical moisture will spread another rain system across the the country to end the week and over the weekend. Next week still has tropical moisture, but no connection to low pressure - and instead we'll have two cold outbreaks, and the frost events that follow.

In this series I'll take you through the drivers of our weather, highlighting any changes over time and things to watch out for (generally every Friday).It covers weather elements like temperature and rainfall, and how they are driven by moisture from the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as bursts of energy from low pressure (SAM and MJO).

See how the dew point temperature can determine if you are in the wet weather zone, as we navigate a spring and summer with plenty of moisture to feed our weather systems.

Australia's 'droughts and flooding rains' is on full show over the next week, with extreme heat, signficant rain, damaging winds and low level snow all making a mark on the landscape.

We've been in a Negative IOD since late July, we're surrounded by warmer than average moisture and we have a potential La Nina - all pointing towards plenty of moisture to fuel our weather systems, but only for those areas that are in the path of the instability.