澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-09-19

Hello, Mellissa Hamilton with the National Weather. 

Checking the satellite image first and you can see cloud over the interior in a trough. That’s causing a few showers and storms inland. A streaky band of cloud is extending all along the South Australian coast, but isn’t causing any rain. Cloud in the tail end of a front is clipping southwest Western Australia, causing light showers.

 Around the states now, it will be cloudy but dry over much of Queensland today. Just some scattered¹ showers above the far Northern Tropics and South Coast. Much the same in New South Wales, there will be patchy rain above the coast, but mostly fine over the rest of the state. You need to keep your brolly handy in Victoria-there will be rain in most areas with morning fog in the east. Tasmania is also in for some wet weather, there will be showers across the state with snow to 1000 meters. There also be scattered showers in South Australia’s southeast, but it should be cloudy but fine elsewhere. Western Australia could expect some coastal² drizzle³ in the south, but it should be mostly sunny and hot elsewhere, much the same in the northern territory, mostly fine and dry in the top end, but chance of a light storm around Alice Springs. 

Looking ahead to Sunday now, cloudy but mostly dry in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, showers for Hobart and Perth, mostly sunny in Adelaide and in Darwin.

1 scattered   

adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的

参考例句：

• Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。

2 coastal   

adj.海岸的，沿海的，沿岸的

参考例句：

• The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
• This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。

3 drizzle   

v.下毛毛雨；n.毛毛雨，蒙蒙细雨

参考例句：

• The shower tailed off into a drizzle.阵雨越来越小，最后变成了毛毛雨。
• Yesterday the radio forecast drizzle,and today it is indeed raining.昨天预报有小雨，今天果然下起来了。