Northwest Weather

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late shower

Wednesday Partly cloudy. Slight chance of a shower from late this morning. Winds E 15 to 25 km/h.

possible thunderstorm

Thursday Partly cloudy. Slight chance of a shower. The chance of a thunderstorm S of Mt Isa. Winds E/NE 15 to 25 km/h becoming light in the late afternoon then becoming S/SE 15 to 20 km/h in the evening.

cloud increasing

Friday Partly cloudy. Winds S/SE 15 to 25 km/h.

cloud increasing

Saturday Mostly sunny. Winds S/SE 15 to 25 km/h.

Issued Tue 23:35 EST

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QLD - Mon 13:59 EST
Flood Warning - Georgina/Eyre Ck

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Northwest Observations

Latest Observations
station
time wind dir wind spd wind gust tmp dew pt feels like rh fire rain pres
km/h km/h °C °C °C % mm hPa
12:00 EST
ENE 17 24 29.3 17.5 28.6 49 9 0.0 1015.7
12:00 EST
NE 13 20 28.4 15.7 27.7 46 9 0.0 -
12:00 EST
E 15 20 28.0 18.1 28.0 55 7 0.0 1016.3
12:00 EST
ENE 17 24 29.6 17.1 28.8 47 10 0.0 1015.7
12:00 EST
NE 13 22 28.3 17.8 28.5 53 7 0.0 -
12:00 EST
ENE 15 28 27.8 16.1 26.9 49 8 0.0 -
12:00 EST
NE 24 31 27.6 17.5 25.5 54 9 0.0 1016.7
09:30 EST
ESE 9 13 22.8 8.1 20.6 39 9 0.0 1018.5
12:00 EST
NE 24 31 27.6 16.9 25.2 52 9 0.0 1017.6
12:00 EST
SE 9 15 27.4 10.2 25.7 34 12 0.0 1016.9

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