澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-18

The satellite image shows a cloud band stretching across southern Australia. A cold front is producing some scattered¹ showers. Cloud extending through WA in a trough is generating² rain across the northwest. There will be some isolated³ showers along Queensland's east coast, fine elsewhere, with southerly change spreading across the southwest late in the day.

New South Wales will see some patchy rain developing over the southwest with some snow showers forming on the Alps. A fine and sunny day across the rest of the state.

It will be cool and cloudy across Victoria with areas of rain developing across the state. Snow showers are above 1,200 metres and some isolated thunderstorms possible, along the south coast.

Cold conditions across Tasmania today with some showers in the north and west.

South Australia will see some showers in the southwest with clear skies elsewhere and some warm northerly winds later.

A band of cloud pushing into the southwest corner of WA is bringing some showers to the coast and the centre.

And a few patches of high cloud across the Northern Territory's Top End are not bringing any rain. The skies should stay clear across the state.

Across the country for tomorrow. Cloudy and cool in Sydney. Melbourne and Adelaide will be cool and rainy. Cloudy in Perth and a cold and rainy day for Canberra.

And that's the National Weather Forecast.

1 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。

2 generating   

n.发生，产生v.生（儿、女）( generate的现在分词 )；（通过物理或化学过程）发生；生成；引起

参考例句：

• There are many ways of generating a two-dimensional representation of an object. 有很多制作物体二维图的方法。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Generating functions are an ideal tool for studying sequences defined by recurrence. 母函数是研究用递推关系来确定的函数的最理想工具。 来自辞典例句

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。