澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-01-19

 We're very hot. Northwesterly winds across New South Wales, triggering record heat through central and southern parts of the state, that includes Sydney and Canberra, but we have got a cooler change moving through and it's now triggering severe thunderstorms and it will linger about the northeast of the state tomorrow, with clearing conditions about the south, but the monsoon¹ remaining very active through the far north.

 

So for Queensland, anywhere about the far northern tropics, but potentially of some very heavy rain and squalling monsoonal² showers, turning isolated³ through the southern parts of the tropics, and that cool change moving into south of Queensland is also likely to trigger isolated showers and storms.

 

Showers and storms are also isolated about the north coast and the northern inland of the state. Some isolated showers along the remainder of the coast, but it should remain dry through the southern inland.

 

Victoria, a mostly dry day, any showers about the southern coast are likely to clear during the morning, and we should also say lengthy⁴ sunny periods.

 

Also looking at some showers at towns about the west and south Tasmania, but that'll turn to drizzle⁵ in the afternoon, and then just clear to the southwest by the evening.

 

In South Australia, mostly dry across central parts, a morning shower about the far southeast, with showers and thunderstorms possible about the far north of the state.

 

We're also looking at dry conditions apart from some morning drizzle about the south. But at once we hit the Pilbara and the Kimberley, then we got monsoonal showers, rain and thunderstorms with heavy falls extending across into the territory, that'll become isolated in the south.

1 monsoon   

n.季雨，季风，大雨

参考例句：

• The monsoon rains started early this year.今年季雨降雨开始得早。
• The main climate type in that region is monsoon.那个地区主要以季风气候为主要气候类型。

2 monsoonal   

季风的

参考例句：

• In the east, the water is mainly oceanic with relatively minor dilution from direct monsoonal rainfall and runoff from small streams. 东部水域主要为海水，而直接的季候雨及小溪溢流，把海水稍为冲淡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• China has a marked continental monsoonal climate characterized by great variety. 中国有明显的大陆性季风气候的特点是种类繁多。 来自互联网

3 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。

4 lengthy   

adj.漫长的，冗长的

参考例句：

• We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
• The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。

5 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。