澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-11-08

Hello, Kirsty Heenan with the National Weather.

Cloud bands over northeastern New South Wales and central Queensland in a trough are causing showers and storms. Cloud being driven over the east coast in moist easterlies is bringing patchy showers. And cloud over parts of WA in a trough is causing potentially severe thunderstorms

Queensland can expect to widespread showers and storms in the southern and central interior and along the tropical coast, rain across the central coast and in the far south.

Heavy showers in northeastern New South Wales with the a chance of storms, staying mostly fine in the south and far west.

Fine and mainly sunny in Victoria, apart from early fog in Gippsland. 

A mostly mild day for Tasmania, becoming hot inland during the day with moderate northeasterly winds around the coast.

South Australia is in for a dry and very warm day before a fresh south-easterly change in the west.

Isolated¹ showers and storms in the southwest land division and a gust² coined mainly in the afternoon. Further north, the Kimberley and the Pilbara are in for scattered³ showers with gusty⁴ storms in the territories' far northwest. Warm with late showers in the Alice.

Looking ahead to conditions for Monday now, showers will continue in Brisbane, partly cloudy but dry in the southern capitals, sunny for Adelaide, and late storms for Darwin.

1 isolated   

adj.与世隔绝的

参考例句：

• His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
• Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。

2 gust   

n.阵风，突然一阵（雨、烟等），（感情的）迸发

参考例句：

• A gust of wind blew the front door shut.一阵大风吹来，把前门关上了。
• A gust of happiness swept through her.一股幸福的暖流流遍她的全身。

3 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。

4 gusty   

adj.起大风的

参考例句：

• Weather forecasts predict more hot weather,gusty winds and lightning strikes.天气预报预测高温、大风和雷电天气将继续。
• Why was Candlestick Park so windy and gusty? 埃德尔斯蒂克公园里为什么会有那么多的强劲阵风？