Many of Australia\u2019s capitals are in for\u00a0a wet Thursday as\u00a0rainfall records tumble in the outback.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sydney, Brisbane and Darwin have an 80 per cent chance of rain over the day, while Melbourne, Canberra, Perth and Adelaide are due for partly cloudy skies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
A near-stationary tropical low over the Simpson Desert has caused widespread rain,\u00a0thunderstorms\u00a0and flooding across four states in\u00a0the\u00a0nation\u2019s interior.<\/p>\n
Mt\u00a0Isa\u2019s\u00a0monthly rain total reached\u00a0318.6mm\u00a0on Wednesday, smashing the\u00a0previous\u00a0record\u00a0of\u00a0282.5mm.\u00a0Mt\u00a0Isa\u00a0records date back to 1926.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alice Springs, up to Wednesday, saw 15 days of rain in February, beating previous streaks, but has not seen its highest rainfall total for a February, which is 241.6mm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As of Wednesday evening, the town received\u00a0180.4mm\u00a0of rain\u00a0from\u00a0the beginning of February.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unusually, the low-pressure system has hovered over the south of the Northern Territory since the beginning of the week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The system is not expected to change significantly in the next couple of days, with Sky News meteorologist Rob Sharpe forecasting \u201ca lot more [rain] still to come\u201d in the region.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
A low-pressure trough associated with the system is expected to shift westward in coming days, dragging wet weather further into South Australia and western NSW at the beginning of next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the east coast of NSW, particularly Sydney and the Central Coast, is likely to see a \u201cribbon of rain\u201d passing through.<\/p>\n
The state is likely to see rain periods on top of showers as southeasterly and easterly winds converge over the central coastal areas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Showers are tipped to increase in southeast Queensland going into Thursday night.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brisbane is looking at a maximum temperature of 30C before the rain develops later in the day.<\/p>\n
Sydney will see tops of 25C under the showers, with heavy falls\u00a0likely in\u00a0central areas surrounding Dubbo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Melbourne is expected to see a maximum of 26C under cloudy skies, while a cloudy day looms for Hobart with temperatures reaching just 20C.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adelaide will see a maximum of 32C under partially cloudy skies, while the north of the state receives heavy rain and thunderstorms particularly in the east.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Several weather warnings have been triggered in that area of the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A west coast trough is set to bring dry and sunny conditions to Western Australia\u2019s coastline, with the mercury in Perth tipped to climb to 32C during the day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The nation\u2019s tropical north can expect to see widespread rain and thunderstorms from Cape York across the Gulf of Carpentaria into the Kimberley region.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Northern Territory\u2019s eastern and southeastern regions will also receive a heavy deluge while the capital, Darwin, in for a showery day with a top of 32C.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many of Australia\u2019s capitals are in for\u00a0a wet Thursday as\u00a0rainfall records tumble in the outback.\u00a0\u00a0 Sydney, Brisbane and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,651,18630,647,44,9087,46,670,9357,1192],"class_list":["post-503733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane","tag-flooding","tag-melbourne","tag-news","tag-outback","tag-perth","tag-sydney","tag-thursday","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}