澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-01-17

Hello, Melissa Hamilton with the National Weather.

 

Let's check the satellite image first. You can see cloud over Queensland and northern New South Wales that’s causing a few showers and storms. Cool southwesterly winds are pushing more cloud across the southeast triggering¹ scattered² showers there. And thick cloud in the tropics³ is causing heavy rain in the Top End.

 

Around the states now, Queensland can expect rain and thunderstorms in the far northern tropics and east coast. It should be mostly fine elsewhere though.

 

Much the same in New South Wales, there will be scattered showers in the northeast and above the south coast.

 

A little rain too for Victoria, it will fall mainly on and south of the ranges with a chance of snow on the Alps.

 

Tasmania can expect some morning drizzle⁴ on the east coast with scattered showers in the central west.

 

There'll also be some rain above South Australia's south coast, but it should be mostly fine and mild elsewhere.

 

A fairly fine day for southern Western Australia but further north. There will be showers and thunderstorms in the western Kimberley and Pilbara, and in the Top End.

 

Looking ahead to Monday's forecast now, an overcast⁵ humid day for Brisbane, showers for Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart, clear in Canberra, Adelaide and Perth, still very warm near a top of 41 degrees. There will be a light storm in Darwin with a top of 33 degrees there.

1 triggering   

起动，触发，控制

参考例句：

• To set off an H-bomb, a special triggering device is required. 要爆炸氢弹，就需有一个特殊的引爆装置。
• This is triggering a second stage of new star formation. 由此触发了第二阶段新恒星的形成。

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 tropics   

(名)热带

参考例句：

• The disease is thought to have originated in the tropics. 这种疾病据说起源于热带地区。
• I went to the tropics for the first time last year. 我去年第一次去了热带地区。

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。

5 overcast   

adj.阴天的，阴暗的，愁闷的；v.遮盖，（使）变暗，包边缝；n.覆盖，阴天

参考例句：

• The overcast and rainy weather found out his arthritis.阴雨天使他的关节炎发作了。
• The sky is overcast with dark clouds.乌云满天。