澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-07-17

 A trough over Queensland is generating widespread cloud, rain and storms across the central western highlands. A high is keeping much of the southeast Australia clear while sending showery onshore winds into eastern New South Wales. A cold front is bringing rain to southwest Western Australia. 

 

In Queensland, morning drizzle¹ and afternoon showers will continue over the western, central and southern interior, isolated² showers about the peninsula coast. Areas of rain in the north of New South Wales, fine in the southeast. Isolated showers elsewhere.

 

In Victoria, a fine and mostly sunny day. Cloud increasing in the north of the state with isolated showers possible in the far north at night. Tasmania will see increasing cloud in the north with possible inland drizzle, otherwise fine. To South Australia where It’s cloudy with isolated showers about the Flinders and northeast pastoral districts. Isolated showers developing in the far west of the state in the afternoon and the evening. 

 

Isolated afternoon showers for the southern interior of Western Australia. Showers also along the southern and western coasts. And in the Northern Territory, cloud clearing in the Alice Springs district, partly cloudy with one or two showers about the northeast Top End.

 

And checking the capitals, rain in Brisbane; showers about Sydney and Perth; mostly sunny in Melbourne and Adelaide; fine in Hobart and cloudy in Canberra and Darwin.

1 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。

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。