The next all state and territory rain system is kicking off

While parts of the southeast will be wondering late in the first week of Spring whether Spring really has sprung, thanks to the next cold outbreak spreading through, it is important to remember that the weather doesn’t instantly shift when the calendar does - and that Spring is actually the fight between hot and cold.

It is a time when tropical weather slowly wakes up again, but there is a lot of lingering bitter air just to our south, and the weather pattern likes to pitch these two against each other, ensuring a temperature roller coaster for the southern states.

Some of these ‘fights’ can result in a lot of rainfall, and one of these rain systems is about to kick off in the west and slowly work its way across the country.

Every state and territory should see a drink from this one. Not every spot across the country (it would be very rare to get a system that somehow drove the rain to every single part of Australia), but large parts of the country.

It kicks off in the west on Friday and Saturday, moves into the east on Sunday and continues well into next week in the east. 

This will have a feed of tropical moisture coming down from the north in a juicy rainband, meeting up with low pressure that comes through in waves. So, we may experience a period of rain, then a break, then another period of rain and repeat - or if you are under the tropical feed then it just keeps raining for days, very slowly moving eastwards. 

Thanks to the path of the tropical feed and the low pressure that it meets up with, this is a system for western Queensland rather than the east; and western NSW more so than the east coast. Much of Victoria should see a soak, while northern and western Tasmania see the bigger falls thanks to the direction of the weather systems. 

The tropical feed doesn’t kick off until it has moved into the east, so this one is for southern and far eastern SA; and southern WA. Much of the NT and northeast WA see this rain as that is where the tropical link occurs (this system crosses Kununurra to Darwin rather than Port Hedland to Broome). 

We’ll have more of these fights between hot and cold as Spring settles in, and depending on how strong the battle is, the ferocious winds that can come with them.