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CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR:

LAUNCESTON

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Temperature	Dew Point	Rel. Humidity	Feels Like	Wind	Gusts	Pressure	Rainfall
8.2°C	4.4°C	77%	4.8°C	NW 11km/h	13km/h	-	0.0mm / -<

Launceston Airport 5.6°C Scottsdale 5.7°C Low Head 11.1°C

Launceston 24 hour history

Central North for Friday Partly cloudy. Slight chance of a shower in the morning and early afternoon. Winds NW 20 to 30 km/h turning W 25 to 35 km/h in the late morning.
Saturday Mostly sunny. Patches of frost in the early morning. Light winds becoming N/NW 15 to 20 km/h in the late afternoon then becoming light in the evening.

7-DAY WEATHER FORECAST: LAUNCESTON 28 DAY RAINFALL FORECAST: CLICK HERE

	FRI Oct 11		SAT Oct 12		SUN Oct 13		MON Oct 14		TUE Oct 15		WED Oct 16		THU Oct 17
Summary	Mostly sunny		Mostly sunny		Mostly cloudy		Mostly sunny		Mostly sunny		Mostly cloudy		Rain
Maximum	18°C		19°C		19°C		19°C		20°C		22°C		20°C
Minimum	6°C		3°C		4°C		8°C		3°C		7°C		10°C
Chance of Rain Likely Amount	10% < 1mm		5% < 1mm		30% 1-5mm		10% < 1mm		5% < 1mm		70% 5-10mm		90% 10-20mm
UV Index	High		High		High		High		High		High		High
Frost Risk	Nil		Moderate		Slight		Nil		Moderate		Nil		Nil
	9am	3pm	9am	3pm	9am	3pm	9am	3pm	9am	3pm	9am	3pm	9am	3pm
Wind Speed	18km/h NNW	24km/h W	2km/h S	7km/h NNW	9km/h N	18km/h N	16km/h S	18km/h S	5km/h SSE	14km/h NNE	6km/h ENE	17km/h N	9km/h ENE	10km/h NNE
Relative Humidity	70%	46%	66%	42%	80%	54%	73%	43%	73%	48%	78%	53%	85%	67%
Dew Point	6°C	6°C	3°C	5°C	7°C	9°C	6°C	6°C	5°C	9°C	10°C	12°C	10°C	14°C

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12 MONTH RAINFALL

Central North Weather Warnings

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TAS - Thu 21:08 EDT
Gale Warning for South East Coast. Strong Wind Warning for Lower East, South West & Central West coasts

Next 12 hours in Launceston Airport

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3am

Mostly clear

5°C

6am

Mostly clear

6°C

9am

Mostly clear

11°C

12pm

Mostly clear

16°C

Launceston Sun & Moon Times

Friday					Next Occurrence
First Light	Sunrise	Sunset	Last Light	Moon Phase	moon set	moon rise	full moon	last quarter	new moon	first quarter
06:00 EDT	06:28 EDT	19:29 EDT	19:57 EDT		Fri 02:55 EDT	Fri 11:42 EDT	Thu Oct 17	Thu Oct 24	Fri Nov 1	Sat Nov 9

Launceston Past 5 Days

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	Minimum	Maximum	Rainfall
Thu Oct 10	7.7°C	17.5°C	0.0mm
Wed Oct 9	3.4°C	15.3°C	0.0mm
Tue Oct 8	2.8°C	15.9°C	0.0mm
Mon Oct 7	11.2°C	15.8°C	0.0mm
Sun Oct 6	8.9°C	18.0°C	7.4mm

Launceston Year To Date

average rainfall to Oct

578.8mm

113.1 day(s)

total for 2024

508.2mm

87 day(s)

total to this day 2023

483.3mm

109 day(s)

wettest day

31.8mm

Jul 20

lowest temperature

-4.1°C

Jul 5

highest temperature

31.6°C

Jan 3

Launceston Almanac

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October minimum temperature

lowest this month

2.8°C

8th

lowest on record

-1.4°C

21st 2006

average this month

7.4°C

+0.4°C

long-term average

7.0°C

October maximum temperature

highest this month

19.9°C

3rd

highest on record

28.7°C

18th 2017

average this month

17.3°C

-0.8°C

long-term average

18.1°C

October rainfall

wettest this month

7.4mm

6th

total this month

11.8mm

2 day(s)

long-term average

53.4mm

11.4 day(s)

wettest on record

121.4mm

2000

driest on record

1.4mm

2015

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