Damaging wind, high tides and snow across south-east Australia

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Wild, damaging scenes across much of the south-east.

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00:00Hello it's meteorologist Angus Hines here at the Bureau of Meteorology.

00:03Today is Wednesday the 25th of June and today is the last day of the severe weather event

00:08which has impacted southeastern parts of the country.

00:11It will be subsiding tomorrow but before that happens we've got more damaging winds,

00:15more very high tides and more snow in the forecast.

00:19Let's get into it with this severe weather update.

00:21This is the weather situation, it is a cold front causing most of the issues at the moment

00:26but we'll see through Wednesday afternoon this cold front is peeling off the country out into the Tasman Sea

00:31and conditions are really settling down for Thursday.

00:34So it is really the next 6 to 12 hours where we need to be alert and aware of what's going on

00:39and for many people over that time the main thing will be damaging wind gusts.

00:44We've seen the damaging winds ease across South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania

00:48but those damaging winds are continuing across New South Wales for Wednesday afternoon.

00:52We're mostly looking at strong winds in the Great Dividing Ranges which is these inland areas here

00:58but notice the warnings go out towards the coast as well and that does include Wollongong, Sydney

01:03and the Hunter region and Newcastle so there's some pretty big urban areas affected by these strong winds

01:08through the next few hours.

01:10Also note the warning just reaches the border and goes into the far south of inland Queensland.

01:16In these yellow areas we could see gusts up to 110km an hour over the next few hours

01:21and that is still enough to cause some damage through the afternoon.

01:25We could see fallen trees and branches, we could see dangerous driving conditions

01:28especially in those higher roads and alpine passes

01:31and there's a chance that we could see some power outages as well.

01:35This should all wind down as those winds subside tonight or overnight.

01:39Alongside the wind we have some powerful ocean conditions

01:42including some 6 to 8 metre waves across the stretch of coastline today

01:46as well as some large waves building around New South Wales.

01:50These powerful waves will be accompanied by very high tides

01:54particularly across the Victorian coastline including around Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne

01:58also southeastern parts of Tasmania including around that Hobart area.

02:03In these yellow regions we could see the tide levels significantly higher

02:07than what you would typically see at high tide.

02:10If you add these high tides and those big waves together

02:12we're talking about the risk of coastal inundations,

02:15sea water up and over low-lying coastal areas.

02:18We'll also see hazardous conditions on the water

02:21if you're out on your boat swimming or surfing

02:23and there's a chance for some coastal erosion

02:25with those powerful waves maybe causing some damage to exposed beaches.

02:29I would also like to mention snow.

02:31Now there's no warnings out for snow

02:33but it's a big part of the weather situation for the day today

02:36because we've got fairly extensive snow

02:38across all alpine areas through southeastern Australia.

02:41The snow will fall to relatively low levels as well.

02:43I've just overlaid the levels

02:45and we could see snow at or anywhere above

02:48500 metres in altitude for Tasmania,

02:51800 metres for the Grampians in western Victoria,

02:54600 metres for the northeast ranges of Victoria,

02:57700 metres for the Snowys and the Canberra Hills

02:59and 700 metres up around the Blue Mountains inland of Sydney.

03:03Some of these areas up in the Alps through here

03:05could see half a metre of snow today.

03:07We've already seen about 30 centimetres

03:09so another 20 would give us that half a metre mark.

03:12For Tasmania and for some of these other areas

03:14it's likely to be closer to 2 or to 10 centimetres worth of snowfall.

03:19So we've got another 6 to 12 hours of severe weather

03:22before the end is in sight.

03:24Much calmer conditions heading in our way on Thursday.

03:27Stay up to date with the latest on the Bureau's website and app.

03:29Thanks for watching.

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