MELBOURNE - Jan 13/15 - SNS -- The current forecast for the state of New South Wales was released by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.
Weather Situation A high pressure system near New Zealand is moving southeast, maintaining a ridge towards the New South Wales coast. A low west of Bass Strait and an associated trough of low pressure extending through the west of New South Wales are moving east, and will bring a west to southwesterly change to the coast during today. A ridge of high pressure should then move over the state as the low slips away to the southeast, maintaining a southwest to southeasterly airstream on Thursday. Winds should tend back to the northwest to northeast on Friday ahead of another southwest to southerly change expected to reach the far south in the evening. Forecast for the rest of WednesdayShowers over the eastern half contracting to the northeast during the morning, and mostly clearing by the evening. Showers on and west of ranges over the southern half clearing later. Isolated thunderstorms over the northeast. Fresh northeast to northwest winds ahead of a west to southwest change spreading through the west and south.Thursday 15 JanuaryIsolated showers along the coast and adjacent ranges. Chance of isolated early morning thunderstorms on the far north coast. Fine west of the Divide. South to southwesterly winds.Friday 16 JanuaryIsolated showers along the coast and adjacent ranges. Fine west of the Divide. Northeast to northwest winds.Saturday 17 JanuaryFine throughout apart from the chance of late showers on the south coast. Northeast to northwest winds tending southwest to southeasterly during the day.The next routine forecast will be issued at 4:30 pm EDT Wednesday.Product IDN10031 Notice Board Rainfall Forecast Terminology Changes to Marine Wind Warnings Media Releases Marketing Meteorological Offices Cobar weather Coffs Harbour weather Lord Howe Island weather Moree weather Norfolk Island weather Wagga Wagga weather Other Information Fire Weather Forecast Areas Marine Reference Points Severe Thunderstorms in New South Wales Severe Weather in New South Wales Air pollution services for Sydney About Weather Forecast Services About Warning Services Warnings Water Climate Environment Tropical Cyclones Tsunami Warning Centre Agriculture - Water and the Land Marine & Ocean UV & Sun Protection Rainfall & River Conditions Graphical Views Radar Maps Rainfall Forecasts Seasonal Outlooks Climate Variability & Change Climate Data Online Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts Water Storage MetEye™ National Weather Services Aviation Weather Services Defence Services Space Weather Services Registered User Services Commercial Weather Services Business Entry Point Facebook Google+ Youtube Blog Careers Sitemap Feedback Freedom of Information Indigenous Weather Knowledge Glossary This page was created at 03:00 on Wednesday 14 January 2015 (GMT) © Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2015, Bureau of Meteorology (ABN 92 637 533 532) | Disclaimer | Privacy | Accessibility var hostname = window.location.hostname; var host = hostname.split("."); if (host[0] == "reg") var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-20386085-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); else if (host[0] == "wdev") var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-21709175-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); else var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-3816559-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); var _nol = { pvar: { cid: "abm", content: "0", server: "secure-au" } }; (function () { var s = document.createElement('script'); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true; s.src = '//secure-au.imrworldwide.com/v60a.js'; var x = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; x.parentNode.insertBefore(s, x); })();
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