Recent days have been all about the mild, sunny weather, but the cold overnight temperatures thanks to high pressure. Not much changes on Tuesday. There’s a couple of high pressure areas on our map, one here, one over here and another one off the south-west coast of the country, all ensuring mostly fine winter weather will persist across the nation.
Rainfall is really at a minimum tomorrow, with a little bit around the fringes: some down here in Tasmania, a little bit around coastal parts of the WA-SA border, and a little bit for coastal parts of Queensland thanks to south-easterly winds blowing up from this direction here. That’s really been the hallmark of this winter so far: lots of south-easterlies and lots of coastal showers.
That’ll bring a little bit of rainfall to this coast here, a little bit of rainfall to Mackay and the Central Coast as well. Just low rainfall amounts, 1 mm to 4 mm around those parts. Slightly heavier falls are possible between Cairns and Cardwell in the North Tropics. Rain shouldn’t push inland, so it will be a dry, sunny winter’s day over the interior.
A cool night tonight means a cold morning tomorrow in New South Wales. That’ll give us some areas of fog and frost in equal measure, but that should unfurl to a lovely, crisp winter’s day. We’re actually seeing some reasonable temperatures around the state as well, with highs of 20 °C across the coast. That’s a sunny 20 °C in Sydney, and after a cold morning, it’s a bright 15 °C afternoon in Canberra.
We will also have some cloud, fog and frost through Victoria tomorrow morning. We could actually get really foggy conditions around western parts of the state, and maybe one of those days where the cloud and fog doesn’t clear up all day. So quite gloomy for the south-west and the north-west. But for central and eastern parts of Victoria, after a cool morning tomorrow, it should clear up to a bright and sunny day, including around Melbourne, where we’re tracking for 16 °C.
We’re likely to see fairly frequent showers across western and elevated parts of Tasmania tomorrow. Showers will also impact the northern coast from Launceston across to Burnie, not as frequently, but you could get one or two, particularly from the afternoon onwards. Across eastern areas, maybe an early shower, then most of the day should be dry, although we will see a more significant band of rain sweep over the entirety of Tasmania overnight.
We’ve got some cold mornings, we’ve got some frost, and we’ve got some fog around South Australia tomorrow as well. That will clear up and we expect to see sunny conditions, mild conditions and, in fact, quite warm conditions, with temperatures between 2 °C and 4 °C above the seasonal average for the state tomorrow. It will be dry everywhere almost all day, but in the evening we’ll see a little bit of rainfall move onto southern parts of the Eyre Peninsula, maybe Port Lincoln, Kangaroo Island and down to the south-east coast. Perhaps Mount Gambier gets a shower in the last hour or two before midnight.
Across to the west we’ve got a very weak cold front moving across parts of the south-west coast, and all we’re likely to squeeze out of that is one or two quick showers and perhaps some cool winds from Perth around to Esperance along the coastline. That won’t push inland. So inland areas get a cool, frosty morning, then a clear, fine day, and through western and northern parts of WA it will also be bright and sunny for Tuesday.
South-easterly winds across northern Australia once again on Tuesday. That means the humidity is at the low end of the spectrum and temperatures 1 °C or 2 °C below seasonal averages, so lots of upper 20s around the north of the country. Bright sunny skies are expected pretty much all day, followed by some crisp overnight temperatures through the interior.
And that’s pretty much it. A fairly simple story this time around, but if you want to check in for more, we’ll be back tomorrow with another update.
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Video current: 12:30 pm AEST Monday 20/07/26.
