![]() Image: Sequence of Himawari-9 satellite and radar imagery during the three hours ending at 9:50am AEST on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. The sequence of satellite images below shows the cold air and showers arriving over Tasmania as the sun rose on Wednesday. ![]() , 10:57AM UTC Snowy Wednesday in TasmaniaĪ burst of wintry weather will cause chilly winds, showers and highland snow across Tasmania today, with Hobart expected to have a near-isothermal day of unwavering temperatures.Ī mid-autumn cold front swept across Tasmania on Wednesday morning, bringing showers and a surge of cold air from the Southern Ocean. Image: View of Thursday's partial solar eclipse through a pinhole projector, from Perth. Image: Total solar eclipse as seen from Barrow Island, WA. Carnarvon Airport cooled by 3.5✬ between 10:23am and 11:38am local time, before reheating by 6✬ in the afternoon sunshine.īelow are a few more images of the event captured by the Weatherzone community in WA. ![]() Impressively, the temperature dropped by several degrees during the darkness of the eclipse. The video below shows the shadow of the Moon passing across Earth’s surface on Thursday, initially moving over the Indian Ocean before skimming WA and then continuing towards the Timor Sea and Indonesia. Every other part of the country only saw a partial eclipse, where the moon only covered a portion of the sun.īut while the view of the eclipse from Earth was limited to a thin sliver of land and ocean, the Himawari-9 satellite, sitting 36,000 km above Earth’s surface, captured an impressive top-down view of the phenomenon for all to see. This rare spectacle occurs when the moon passes between Earth and the Sun, causing the Moon to briefly cast a shadow on the Earth’s surface.Įxmouth and the surrounding Ningaloo Coast region was the only place on the Australian mainland to witness Thursday’s solar eclipse in its entirety. More than 20,000 people converged on Exmouth in the far northwest corner of WA on Thursday to witness a total solar eclipse. , 2:31PM UTC Satellite captures Moon's shadow during solar eclipseĪ satellite just captured the shadow of the Moon darting across the Indian Ocean and glancing northwestern Australia during today’s total solar eclipse. Otherwise, that great big high is delivering fine conditions that should stick around for a few days, which is good news for anyone taking a four-day break ahead of Anzac Day.įor those planning to attend a dawn service on Tuesday, we'll have an update on the expected conditions in the capital cities and beyond by Monday. The influence of those easterlies extends as far north as the NT, with the territory's Arnhem Coast currently experiencing showers, which you can see as the only green blob of rain on the radar in the chart aboveĭown south, you can see how the anti-clockwise circulation means westerlies for Tasmania, and those should bring showers for the next couple of days for western parts of the state, as well as a very light shower or two for coastal Victoria from about Melbourne to the SA border, easing over the weekend The east coast is under the influence of moist onshore winds circulating anti-clockwise around the high, meaning showers for the next few days from the NSW south coast to the northern Queensland coast Gaze upwards from the SA capital and you could just about see the big red H in the sky!Īs you probably know, high pressure systems generally usher in fine weather to most of the country, although there are exceptions. Take a look at that whopping great high pressure system centred almost exactly over Adelaide. It's not often you can say that a single feature on the synoptic chart is responsible for the weather across pretty much the whole of Australia, but that's the case this Friday.
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