Widespread showers and storms will continue across a broad area of Australia in coming days due to an extremely moist airmass that is in no hurry to go anywhere.
Weatherzone Meteorologist Anthony Sharwood says it’s a continuation of the recent pattern where much of the country has seen heavy downpours at times.
Mr Sharwood says moisture being drawn across the country, a broad trough of low pressure sitting across inland parts of the continent and a slow-moving high centred over the Tasman Sea are the drivers of the current weather patterns.
He says in super-simple terms, dew point is a measure of atmospheric moisture adding the more moisture the air contains, the higher its dew point – and the harder it becomes for our bodies to cool by sweating.
