Adelaide’s Christmas Pageant weather forecast
It will be a bit cool at Adelaide's much-loved Christmas Pageant, but will the rain stay away?
There’ll be some chilly weather to start the day as families set up their picnic rugs and camp chairs to watch the Adelaide Christmas Pageant.
With the sun expected to make an appearance earlier in the morning, it will be a cloudy and cool day as Father Christmas comes to town.
Temperature forecasts peak at 18C later in the day.
It will be 15C when the pageant kicks off from South Tce at 9.30am but only feel like 9C.
As it winds around Victoria Square and makes its way toward Beehive Corner, things will get a bit warmer by 11.30am with the forecast showing 17C, feeling like 11C.
While some parts of the state are expecting a bit of rain on Saturday morning, the radar shows pageant-goers will make it out drizzle free.
Southerly winds will blow through the city, but aren’t forecast to reach more than 15km/h
More than 300,000 people are expected at Adelaide’s 93rd Christmas Pageant.
SA’s record-breaking rainfall as spring storm smashes state
Wild weather lashed parts of South Australia on Monday, with hail battering the coast and CBD off the back of one of the state’s wettest Octobers on record.
BOM senior meteorologist Sarah Scully said rainfall was 36 per cent above average and the highest since 2022.
In the state’s Far West, October was in the wettest 10 per cent since 1900 and, overall, the state recorded rainfall in the wettest 30 per cent of Octobers since 1900.
Ms Scully described notable rainfall ranging from 10mm-15mm across much of the state at the weekend, with Heathfield in the Mount Lofty Ranges topping the chart with 16.6mm.
Ceduna, on the Eyre Peninsula, received 16.2mm in the 24 hours to 9am Monday while Maitland on the Yorke Peninsula had 14.6mm.
The highest rainfall total in Adelaide was 13.4mm.
Andrew Brooks caught footage as an intense hailstorm rolled through Denial Bay, near Ceduna, overnight, leaving behind huge slabs of ice and shredding through local gardens.
“I was fast asleep in bed and woke to this roaring noise of the rain and hail on the tin roof … it woke me up … my dog was sleeping on the floor next to my bed, she jumped on bed with me and was shaking,” he said.
“My the veggie patch took a bit of a beating.”
Mr Brooks, who has lived in the Ceduna area all his life, said he was initially concerned that grain crops may have been damaged by the hail.
“I’ve got quite a few mates that are grain growers but, thankfully, haven’t heard of any damage … when I looked on the radar it was actually quite a small storm cell, it looked less than a kilometre across, possibly half a kilometre,” he said.
The storm rolled through to Adelaide early on Monday morning, with another video captured of hail pelting down at College Park.
Adelaide had a wintry top of just 15.4C on Monday, with the CBD feeling the chill at just 10.1C at midday.
More than 2300 were left without power across the state on Sunday – some for more than 20 hours – as wind gusts of up to 60km/h tore through the city on Sunday and lightning sparked several blazes.
As of 11.30am Monday, 1300 were left in the dark as SA Power Networks battled multiple outages.
South Australia’s Melbourne Cup racegoers were urged to pack a brolly with several millimetres of rain across Adelaide on Tuesday.
As of 11.30am Monday, 1300 were left in the dark as SA Power Networks battled multiple outages.
South Australia’s Melbourne Cup racegoers were urged to pack a brolly with several millimetres of rain across Adelaide on Tuesday.
Barry Humphries set to be immortalised in Adelaide
