Violent thunderstorms are likely across eastern Australia this Christmas, rivalling some of the most intense and widespread storm outbreaks of the past few decades.
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00:00 The action really focused in terms of thunderstorms across the eastern coast, so chance of a thunderstorm
00:07 through Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
00:09 Even Canberra seeing a possibility of a thunderstorm on Christmas Day, as well as some showers
00:14 there.
00:15 But for the other capitals, generally not too bad.
00:17 Some cloudy skies in Hobart and a southeasterly wind, temperatures about 20 degrees there
00:21 but should be a dry day.
00:23 Similar story in Adelaide, a fairly pleasant day although not particularly warm, temperatures
00:27 in the low 20s.
00:29 Generally cranking up on the western side of the country, low or mid 30s and mostly
00:32 sunny conditions for Perth and much of Western Australia.
00:36 Warm conditions across the north with heatwave warnings possible through many in northern
00:40 Australia, mid to upper 30s and just one or two seasonal showers and storms across most
00:45 northern parts of the country for Christmas Day.
00:47 We're sort of seeing it ramp up at the moment, there was some severe thunderstorms around
00:50 yesterday, still one or two severe storms across the Queensland coastline at the moment
00:56 and through the course of this afternoon, Saturday afternoon, anticipating really the
01:00 border area between Queensland and New South Wales to be the prime spot for the risk of
01:05 further severe thunderstorms as we get particularly into the warmer hours of today, the afternoon,
01:09 the evening.
01:10 Into Sunday it's going to be another day of storms across eastern areas with that region
01:14 really starting to spread out, the risk of storms into coastal spots like Sydney on Sunday
01:19 and then Monday, Christmas Day, storms all down that eastern side of the country, likely
01:24 to continue into Tuesday, we could see a continuation of storms and wet weather for many eastern
01:29 and southeastern places and then a gradual improvement and clearing to this weather from
01:34 midweek onwards.
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