澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-10-04

Hello, Kirsty Heenan with the National Weather.

Cloud over eastern New South Wales and Victoria in cool onshore winds is bringing widespread rain mainly near the coast. Patchy cloud over the northern tropics¹ is causing isolated² showers while cloud over southern WA in a weak trough is only causing patchy drizzle³ and light rain.

It should be dry in most parts of Queensland today apart from isolated showers above the southeast coast and the northern tropics, scattered⁴ showers over northeast New South Wales and the southeast, fine in the west with moderate southwesterly winds. Widespread fog in Victoria before a cool to mild day with showers in the east, patchy drizzle in Tasmania's north with showers developing in the west by late afternoon. Isolated large showers on south Australia's far south coast and ranges. But they should gradually clear by the evening, a few showers developing over southern agricultural areas later in the day. Isolated morning showers in the Southwest land division with storms building in the Southern Goldfields. Further north, the Kimberley and the Territories’ northwest coast during the light showers and storms while the Alice Springs district will be partly cloudy ahead of a cooler suddenly change.

Checking conditions for Monday now: Partly cloudy in Brisbane and Perth, Cool and wet in the southeastern capitals, light showers in Darwin and storms this evening.

1 tropics   

(名)热带

参考例句：

• The disease is thought to have originated in the tropics. 这种疾病据说起源于热带地区。
• I went to the tropics for the first time last year. 我去年第一次去了热带地区。

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 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。

4 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。