New Year’s weather forecast for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide
STORMS, heat and possibly even a cyclone will hit our shores this New Year’s Eve as most of our capitals get ready to party.
HEADING out tomorrow night? Planning on spending New Year’s Day by the water recovering?
Whatever you decide to do will depend on which state you’re in with a mixture of storms and some pretty hot weather set to hit Australia.
Brisbane will cop some rain on New Year’s Eve with showers and possible storms.
Sydney will have a rainy start to NYE, but the showers are expected to clear in time for the firework displays.
Melbourne can expect warm and mild conditions with little chance of rain over the next two days.
Adelaide, which has been scorching hot this week, is due for some milder weather in time for New Year’s while Perth should expect hot and sunny conditions on Sunday and Monday.
Sarah Fitton from the Bureau of Meteorology’s extreme weather desk said southern Australia, and in particular Victoria, could expect milder temperatures compared to the extreme heat of recent days.
However other parts of Australia aren’t looking as stable.
“Southeast Queensland is catching the remnants of a cold front which is moving southeast, creating quite a lot of moisture,” she said.
“This makes it perfect (conditions) for storms.”
Brisbane can expect between 1-6mm of rain on New Year’s Eve and 1-5mm on New Year’s Day.
Sydney can expect between 1-3mm of rain on Sunday and a relatively clear Monday.
EXTREME NEW YEAR’S END
Sky News Weather chief meteorologist Tom Saunders said extreme weather was affecting much of Australia during the final week of 2017.
He warned a cyclone was possible after a monsoon trough migrated to mainland Australia for the first time this wet season.
“This spawned a tropical low (for northwest Western Australia),” Mr Saunders said.
Mr Saunders said hot weather was spreading over the southeast in a northerly airstream.
The warm air won’t last though and Mr Saunders said a cooler change would drop temperatures over southern states by New Year’s Eve.
“A new storm outbreak will commence over southeast Queensland,” he said.
Here’s how the weather is looking across the capitals for the rest of this week.
Today 30C with possible storms.
NYE will be mostly cloudy and humid with the odd shower but mostly clearing by sunset with a top of 24C (sunset temperature around 23C). NYD will be 29C and partly cloudy.
Today 23C with possible showers. (NYE will be partly cloudy with a top of 24C (sunset temperature around 20C), NYD 23C.
Today 35C.
NYE will be warm and humid with the potential for thunderstorms through the afternoon and evening with a top of 31C (sunset temperature around 25C). NYD 30C with showers and possible storms.
Today 34C, NYE 33C (sunset temperature around 26C), NYD 33C.
Today 24C, NYE 26C (sunset temperature around 21C), NYD 25C.
Today 18C and showers, NYE 24C (sunset temperature around 20C), NYD 20C with light showers.
Today 29C and showers. NYE will be partly cloudy with a top of 28C (sunset temperature around 21C), NYD 30C.
Today 34C and mostly sunny for the rest of the week including NYE (sunset temperature around 28C) and NYD.
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