澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-11-22

Taking a look at the satellite picture first and you can see cloud streaming across the south and east. That’s generating areas of rain and storms. Ragged¹ cloud over the northern tropic is bringing a little light rain. Cloud sweeping² over the southern part of Western Australia is only causing the odd light shower.

Around the States now, a fine day across most of Queensland, isolated³ showers and thunderstorms around the central west with patchy rain developing over the Channel Country.

There’s an extreme fire danger warning for much of New South Wales today. It will be very hot across the state despite showers in the northeast.

Wet in Victoria with heavy fogs and localized flash flooding that would contract to southeast by the afternoon.

A cooler change for Tasmania, rain across much of the state tending to showers during the afternoon.

Rain’s also forecast for parts of the South Australia’s southeast. It should be mostly fine elsewhere though.

Across in the west, isolated showers and drizzle⁴ around the southern interior and above the south coast.

Further north, the chance of a light storm in the western Pilbara and Kimberley. The rest of the northern territory should be partly cloudy and dry.

Looking ahead to tomorrow’s weather forecast in the major centers, a few showers in Sydney, fine in Brisbane, showers in Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart, sunny in Perth.

1 ragged   

adj.衣衫褴褛的，粗糙的，刺耳的

参考例句：

• A ragged shout went up from the small crowd.这一小群人发出了刺耳的喊叫。
• Ragged clothing infers poverty.破衣烂衫意味着贫穷。

2 sweeping   

adj.范围广大的，一扫无遗的

参考例句：

• The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
• Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？

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 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。