{"id":581505,"date":"2026-04-02T21:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581505\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:52:11","slug":"calm-weather-forecast-for-most-of-australia-over-easter-weekend-while-bom-watches-for-possible-cyclone-australia-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581505\/","title":{"rendered":"Calm weather forecast for most of Australia over Easter weekend while Bom watches for possible cyclone | Australia weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many Australians can expect mild temperatures and a chance of showers over the Easter weekend, while meteorologists predict a cyclone will form<\/a> in the Coral Sea on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a blend of fine days and showers for most capital cities over the coming days.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo capital city is forecast to be completely dry. At the same time, no city should be a washout,\u201d said senior meteorologist Jonathan How. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to have a period of calmer weather before a potential cyclone next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sydney would see showers \u201cfrom the get go\u201d, he said, with maximums in the low to mid 20s and some rain most days except Monday.<\/p>\n

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Brisbane would be warmer \u2013 with temperatures reaching into the high 20s \u2013 and a chance of rain for the first three days of the long weekend. It would also be \u201cpretty windy\u201d along the Queensland coast, How said, with marine wind warnings expected to be in place along parts of the coast throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n

Mostly fine weather was forecast for Melbourne from Friday to Sunday, with showers expected on Monday. Hobart would see a similar pattern.<\/p>\n

Canberra would be mostly dry, with maximums temperatures ranging between 19 and 25C. Isolated showers, storms and temperatures in the 30s were forecast for Darwin.<\/p>\n

Thunderstorms were expected to roll through inland Western Australia on Good Friday, with the possibility of some reaching Perth, How said. The city would see temperatures in the mid to high 20s over the four days.<\/p>\n

Adelaide would be fine and \u201cfairly warm\u201d, he said, until possible showers arrived on Monday. Temperatures could hit 29C on Sunday. \u201cIf you leave chocolate out in the sun, it will melt,\u201d How warned.<\/p>\n

Despite the mostly settled conditions, How reminded people to check the forecast before heading out camping or to the beach.<\/p>\n

Catchments were still soaked across Queensland\u2019s north-east tropical coast, he said, so any showers could lead to isolated river and creek rises.<\/p>\n

A tropical low labelled 37U, now located between Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, was expected to \u201cdeepen and strengthen\u201d over the weekend, How said.<\/p>\n

\"SkySky turns blood-red in Western Australia\u2019s Shark Bay before arrival of Cyclone Narelle \u2013 video<\/p>\n

The system had a high chance of becoming a cyclone on Sunday, when it was over the northern Coral Sea, and was expected to move towards the Australian coast from mid next week. \u201cIt\u2019s still a little bit too early to say whether it will cross the coast due to the range of different scenarios,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

If the cyclone did form in Australian waters it would be called Owen. But as it was located near the boundary of Papua New Guinea and Fiji\u2019s areas of responsibility, naming rights would depend on where it formed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Australians can expect mild temperatures and a chance of showers over the Easter weekend, while meteorologists predict…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-581505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581505","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=581505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}