澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-03-07

Hello, Jessica Askin with the National Weather.

 

A mix of thick cloud in a deepening¹ low is producing showers and storms over eastern South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Cloud over southeastern Queensland and northern New South Wales is causing a few showers.

 

More rain for southern Queensland today, especially above the Wide Bay, Burnett and Capricornia regions. Some afternoon showers over far northern Queensland, but fine in the west with drier southwesterly winds.

 

In New South Wales, there will be rain and isolated² thunderstorms. Heavy falls are expected to over the southern inland. It should be fine in the far northwest.

 

Heavy rain for Victoria with possible flash flooding, especially in the central and northeastern regions. Thunderstorm will become widespread in the afternoon.

 

Tasmania can expect a warm day, with isolated showers above the east coast and the north, increasing later in the northwest. It should be fine elsewhere.

 

Some isolated showers for southern South Australia, they should increase over the west.

 

Fine in WA today apart from some isolated showers for the south, moving eastwards³ in the afternoon.

 

Some afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms in the Kimberley and the Top End, fine and sunny in the south of Territory with some light northwesterly winds.

 

For tomorrow, rain for most of southeastern coast, cloudy in Perth and sunny in Broome.

1 deepening   

n. 加深, 深化 动词deepen的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• With the deepening of the economic crisis, unemployment shot up. 经济危机加剧，失业人数激增。
• The sky, deepening to ochre, is broken by two or three seagulls. 两点三点白鸥划破了渐变为赭色的天空。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译

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 eastwards   

adj.向东方（的），朝东（的）；n.向东的方向

参考例句：

• The current sets strongly eastwards.急流迅猛东去。
• The Changjiang River rolls on eastwards.长江滚滚向东流。