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Natural air-conditioning over the outback

Jessica Trevena
It may be the sticky build-up, with the Top End in the mid-thirties and horribly humid, but further south, widespread cloud has turned on the cool. Much of the southern NT and eastern inland WA were more than 7 degrees below average today, with some places, like Leinster in the Goldfields of WA, not making it to more than 17 below average. World famous Uluru stayed below 20 degrees - 2 degrees cooler than the overnight minimum last Friday! This makes it the coldest day since at least early September. Kalgoorlie's top of just 16 is the coldest November day since 2005. Alice Springs, Meekatharra and Laverton have all also stayed 10 degrees or more below average. Most locations have recorded at least a little rain, which helped keep temperatures down. Some, like Leinster have recorded lots of rain: 39mm and the highest in a day since January, 2006. Kalgoorlie aside, it's not that unusual for a cool spell like this weekends' to occur when the rains come. Though that certainly doesn't mean it isn'twelcome, when the area is full of European and southern Australian tourists and temperatures where in the high thirties or low forties just days ago.
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