澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-05-22

 Checking the weather now, and you can see widespread cloud over South Australia and the west of New South Wales, that's causing patchy rain and isolated¹ storms. Onshore winds are pushing more cloud along the Queensland coast, triggering scattered² showers there. While light cloud about Western Australia is generating isolated falls above the south coast. 

 

Around the states, and Queensland can expect isolated showers and storms about the central west with morning drizzle³ along the south coast and about the southern interior. Rain about New South Wales will start to extend across the state this morning, and there is the chance of thunderstorms over the northern rivers and mid-north coast. 

 

A cool and cloudy day for Victoria, scattered showers in the west should start to spread across the state by mid-afternoon. In Tasmania, there will be isolated afternoon and evening showers in the west and north, with possible light thunderstorms in the far north. Severe weather warnings for South Australia have eased, but rain is expected in most parts with the heaviest falls over the interior and the east. 

 

In Western Australia, isolated showers in the south should start to contract to the coast by mid-afternoon. It should be mostly fine elsewhere. Mostly fine too in the Northern Territory apart from some isolated showers in the Top End.

 

And looking ahead to Monday, rain and a chance of afternoon showers in Brisbane, possible showers too in Sydney

1 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。

2 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。

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。