澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-10-18

Hello, Kathryn Stolarchuk with the National Weather.

A high pressure system is driving onshore winds and cloud over the southeast coast is causing the odd¹ shower over western Tasmania. That high is keeping skies clear across most of the country, but some patchy cloud above the New South Wales coast is triggering² a little rain.

In Queensland, there will be some rain above the east coast in the morning. Showers will develop over eastern inland districts in the afternoon with one or two thunderstorms on the way. A little rain is expected above the central and northern New South Wales coasts. Later it will clear from the south.

Rain and drizzle³ along Victoria’s coast will clear to a cloudy afternoon. It should be a fine and mostly sunny day inland.

Down to Tasmania, there will be rain mostly above the west and south.

In South Australia, the drizzle above the southeast coast will clear by the afternoon. Across the Western Australia now, it should be mostly fine throughout the state with just a little cloud over the southwest.

And it’s also fine and dry throughout the Territory, but there is an extreme fire warning for northern parts where it’s going to be a hot day.

Looking ahead to Monday’s forecast now, there will be some rain in Perth, Cloudy conditions for Cairns, Brisbane, Sydney and Hobart. And it’s looking fine and sunny for Darwin, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide, where it will reach a top of 27 degrees.

1 odd   

adj.奇特的；临时的；奇数的；n.[pl.]机会

参考例句：

• She looks a bit odd.I wonder what has happened to her.她的神色有些异样，不知出了什么事。
• He's an odd character and no mistake!他的确是个怪人！

2 triggering   

起动，触发，控制

参考例句：

• To set off an H-bomb, a special triggering device is required. 要爆炸氢弹，就需有一个特殊的引爆装置。
• This is triggering a second stage of new star formation. 由此触发了第二阶段新恒星的形成。

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。