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Twin cold fronts bringing snow to Tasmania this weekend
A burst of wintry weather will hit Tasmania this weekend, delivering a mix of snow, small hail, rain and blustery winds. A pair of cold fronts will sweep across Tasmania during the next three days, one on Friday night and another on Sunday. Image: Satellite image showing a cold front located to the south of Australia on Friday morning. The first front will cause wind and rain to increase late on Friday as temperatures take a dive into the evening. It should get cold enough for snow to fall to about 700m above sea level on Friday night into Saturday morning, possibly a bit lower. This has prompted a Bush Walkers Weather Alert in the Western and Central Plateau districts, and a Warning to Sheep Graziers in the North West Coast, Midlands, Upper Derwent Valley and the South East districts. Western parts of the state could also see small hail at times on Saturday. Wind and showers will ease briefly on Saturday morning before increasing again late Saturday into Sunday, ahead of and with the passage of the second cold front. This second frontal system will be stronger than the first, with a good chance of damaging wind gusts in some parts of the state. There will also be more rain, highland snow and small hail in the mix on Sunday. Image: Forecast wind gusts early on Sunday morning, showing powerful west-northwesterly winds affecting Tasmania ahead of an approaching cold front. While this weekend’s cold weather is not unusual for this time of year, it will cause dangerous conditions for outdoor activities and travel in some parts of the state. Bu sure to stay up to date with the latest weather warnings and road closures on Friday night and throughout the weekend.
03 Apr 2025, 10:01AM UTC
Clouds clear to reveal immense scale of Queensland flooding
Satellites have captured spectacular images of the massive floods currently affecting southwest Queensland, revealing water stretching thousands of kilometres across the Australian outback. After multiple rounds of heavy rain over the past fortnight, clear skies on Thursday allowed satellites to capture high-resolution images of the flooded landscape. While breaks in cloud allowed glimpses of the flooding late last week and earlier this week, Thursday offered the clearest view yet of the immense flooding stretching across Queensland’s vast Channel Country. The image below is a natural ‘true colour’ satellite image of the landscape on Thursday morning, offering a clear view of the earthy floodwaters in southwest Qld. Image: Visible true colour satellite image captured at 8:30am AEST on Thursday, April 3. While the floodwaters are easy enough to make out on the image above, they are better highlighted using false colours that help distinguish water from the surrounding landscape. The image below uses false colours that enhance floods by making liquid water on the ground appear blue, with sediment-heavy water appearing darker blue. Image: Corrected reflectance image captured by the Terra satellite on Thursday, April 3. Source: NASA Worldview The video below also uses this technique to show the immense scale of the flooding, with the flooded rivers clearly standing out against the Australian outback. Video: Himawari-9 satellite image using corrected reflectance to show flooding in southwest Queensland on Thursday, April 3. The main rivers that can be seen in the images and video above are the Georgina, Diamantina and Bulloo Rivers and the Cooper Creek. Some sections of these rivers have bulged to about 70 km in width as the floodwater inundates the notoriously flat landscape of Queensland’s Channel Country. These flatland floods will continue for weeks to months as the water slowly drains through the landscape. Some of this water will eventually reach Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, although that’s not going to happen until late-April into May.
03 Apr 2025, 5:10AM UTC
Daylight saving ends: how to remember which way to turn your clocks
Do you turn your clocks forwards or backwards at 3am this Sunday, April 6, in the Australian states and territories where daylight saving ends (NSW, ACT, SA, Vic, Tas)? That might seem like a simple question, but even great minds have occasionally seized up as people ask themselves, "Wait, is it forward or back? Are we adding or subtracting an hour here?" The answer is that you turn the clocks backwards (if indeed your home or personal effects include any timepieces that require manual changing), and there’s a weather-related way to remember. “Spring forward, fall back” Simple as that. That’s the simple mnemonic (handy phrase to help you remember things) to remind you to turn your clocks forwards in the spring and backwards in the fall – or in the autumn as we Australians call it. READ MORE: Don’t make this common daylight saving mistake Reverting back to Australian Eastern Standard Time as daylight saving ends means that: From 3am this Sunday, there will be no gap between clocks in Australia’s three largest cities, as Brisbane catches up to Melbourne and Sydney. Adelaide, Darwin and Alice Springs will all be back on the same time, rather than the NT being an hour behind SA. Perth will now be just two hours behind the southeastern states, not three. If you live in a state where daylight saving is about to end, you will get to relive the hour between 2am and 3am in the closest your life will ever come to the movie Groundhog Day. While you’ll have less light for outdoors activities in the evenings from Sunday onwards, you will gain some extra light in the morning – although this will be negated as days shorten with winter approaching. READ MORE: Our story from 2023 about Australia’s smallest, strangest (unofficial) time zone From a meteorological reporting point of view, maximum temperatures can now be expected to occur slightly earlier in the day in states that revert back to regular time. And for those wondering, the official term is daylight saving (singular), not daylight savings (plural).