Damaging wind warnings are in place across the south-east with up to 110 kilometres an hour on Wednesday, August 28. Video via Bureau of Meteorology.
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00:00Damaging wind will continue across southeastern Australia throughout the day on Wednesday,
00:04before yet another bout of strong wind builds in the west tomorrow.
00:08Let's start by looking at the southeast of the country, here's the pressure pattern
00:11for today.
00:12Take a note of the isobars, these white lines, and how pitched they are together across the
00:17southeast, showing us it's a very windy day.
00:20That is reflected with the red wind arrows whistling across from the west as well.
00:24Very windy for Tasmania and Victoria, as well as southern parts of South Australia and New
00:29South Wales.
00:31Unsurprisingly there are broad damaging wind warnings in place across the southeast, including
00:36the Mount Lofty Ranges near Adelaide and far southern parts of South Australia, with wind
00:41here expected to ease late this afternoon.
00:43Much of central and southern Victoria will continue to see damaging wind gusts through
00:47the day on Wednesday, easing off this evening.
00:50Southern New South Wales, including the Illawarra and parts of the Sydney area will also see
00:55wind gusts through this afternoon and this evening, and Tasmania will see very strong
00:59winds for the north and west coast.
01:02Broadly speaking, around these yellow areas we could expect to see wind gusts around 90
01:06or 100 kmh through the course of the day today, but some places that could be even stronger.
01:12Northern and western parts of Tasmania, including the islands, could see their winds blowing
01:16up to 110 kmh, as could the Illawarra district in southern New South Wales, and potentially
01:22some of the mountaintops throughout Victoria.
01:25With winds of that speed, significant impacts are expected and we've already been seeing
01:29all of these occur last night, overnight, and this morning.
01:33Trees and branches down, potentially across roads and onto property.
01:37Power outages remain possible today across the southeastern states, and damage to loose
01:42structures like outdoor furniture, rubbish bins, fences and trampolines, all a possibility
01:47with the winds blowing through this strongly.
01:50A focus on the warnings for Victoria now, because it's not all to do with wind.
01:54If you look really closely you can see this little black line hugging the coast, and
01:57that's showing us a couple of extra warnings on top of the damaging wind warnings.
02:02These are coastal hazards warnings.
02:04Out here along the western coast from Cape Otway out to the South Australia border, that's
02:08a damaging surf warning.
02:10Significant large waves expected to impact that coastline here.
02:14Around Port Phillip, the Mornington Peninsula and the Gippsland coast, we have a warning
02:18for abnormally high tides, as the tidal levels today will be significantly above what they
02:23normally are, and that could result in some local coastal inundation for low lying areas
02:28near the water.
02:30We'll now jump across to the western side of the country, which is having a more benign
02:34day on Wednesday, but that's short lived.
02:36On Thursday, another cold front approaches, that means another spell of rain, another
02:41spell of wintry weather, and perhaps most significantly, another bout of strong winds
02:46for the southwest of the state.
02:48In anticipation of this windy day on Thursday, we have issued another damaging wind warning
02:54from southern parts of Perth, around the southwest corner of the country, through to the Esperance
02:58coastline.
02:59It will be very windy here starting on Thursday morning, continuing towards the end of the
03:04day.
03:05Many Australians to be impacted by the strong wind over the next few days so do stay up
03:09to date with your severe weather warning information and your local forecasts at the Bureau website
03:14and app.
03:15Stay safe, look after each other, thanks for checking in.