澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-01-30

 Let's take a look at the weather now. On the satellite image, you can see cloud around Tropical Cyclone¹ Bianca producing showers for southwestern WA. And there's cloud over the coast of Queensland associated with Tropical Cyclone Anthony producing showers. Cloud over the western interior in a trough is triggering storms.

 

Around the states today:

 

In Queensland, isolated² showers and thunderstorms over the northern tropics and extending from the northwest district right through to the southern interior.

 

In New South Wales, isolated showers on the far north coast, fine and mostly sunny elsewhere.

 

In Victoria, a hot to very hot and mainly sunny day. A cooler southwest to southerly change will develop later in the southwest. Forty degrees in Melbourne today. 

 

In Tasmania, mild to warm with some patchy rain about the south. 

 

A very hot day for South Australia. It's doing a couple better than Melbourne. Adelaide is going for a top of 42 today, dry apart from possible isolated showers and thunderstorms developing in the far west. 

 

In WA, rain areas and isolated thunderstorms in the southwest associated with Bianca, with moderate to heavy falls and localised flooding possible in the south. Showers and storms near the west coast, and isolated showers and thunderstorms in the Kimberley and Pilbara. 

 

In the Northern Territory, fine over the southwestern Alice Springs District, isolated showers and gusty³ storms elsewhere in the afternoon and evening. A hot day, south of the Top End.

 

Looking ahead to tomorrow: Sydney, sunny, at top of 32; Canberra, sunny, 37; Melbourne, mostly sunny, 39; Hobart, some rain, 23; Adelaide, dry and sunny, 40.

1 cyclone   

n.旋风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
• The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。

2 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。

3 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？