Cold in south west, warmer and windier in east

Cold moving through southern Western Australia while warmer windy weather sweeps the eastern Australia.

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00:00Hello from the Bureau with your national weather forecast for Wednesday the 4th of September,

00:04and we're keeping an eye on heat and wind redeveloping across southeastern parts of the

00:08country, but out in the west it's a different story, with a very cold day on the way, especially

00:13for southern parts of Western Australia. Let's first start by having a look at what we're

00:16expecting into Wednesday night, and on the synoptic map we can see a surface trough moving

00:21through the Bight, and that's doing two things. First, it's dragging a lot of heat from the

00:25interior and down across the southeast of the country, but it's also causing winds to ramp up

00:30yet again, and so we do have severe weather warnings current for damaging winds. They

00:34cover parts of Victoria and southeast New South Wales. At this stage we're not expecting winds

00:38to be as strong as the last few days, but do keep across the warnings and check out our dedicated

00:44severe weather video update, and that's available on our social media channels.

00:48Into Wednesday night, we'll see showers easing for a short period across southwest WA,

00:53with these two systems coming up from the south, we'll see showers re-intensifying to Thursday,

00:57and it will be a very cold day on the way. You can see that cold front pushing through the

01:01southwest of the state with local hail, and there is a possibility of snow flurries about the

01:07Stirling Ranges in the far south of the state. Across the east, showers for South Australia,

01:12Victoria and Tasmania, and this high pressure system in the Tasman Sea has been quite slow

01:16moving, so not much change across the east coast, but temperatures will start to rise across eastern

01:21parts of New South Wales. Showers for the rest of the Queensland coast, otherwise remaining dry

01:27and quite warm. So a state-by-state look starting off with Queensland, there's the chance of morning

01:32fog and frost about the Granite Belt, and after a cool day on Wednesday, starting to heat up across

01:36southeast parts of the state, 25 degrees in Brisbane, we'll still see showers across parts of the coast,

01:42particularly up towards Cairns. In New South Wales, the chance of morning fog and frost about

01:47the Tablelands, but it will be a milder night and quite a bit warmer during the day, especially

01:52along the coast. 29 degrees in Wollongong, 29 in Sydney, and it will be quite windy across the

01:57southeast, and so we do have high fire dangers for the Illawarra for Thursday. In Victoria,

02:02showers will build through the day, a little bit cooler across the south, 22 in Melbourne,

02:06but in the north, away from the cloud and showers, it will be quite warm and windy, 33 degrees in

02:11Mildura. Those northerly winds across Victoria will start to ease during Thursday afternoon and

02:16evening, but they will ramp up again into Friday. In Tasmania, we still have minor flood warnings

02:22current for parts of the state, and showers will redevelop across the west and the north, quite

02:26mild in Hobart, 20 degrees, a little bit cooler further north under those showers. But it will be

02:31quite a warm to hot day across South Australia, especially across the Air Peninsula, with maximum

02:36temperatures up to 16 degrees above the September average, a warmer 27 in Adelaide, and getting

02:42quite hot in Coober Pedy, 37 degrees. A few showers about the south coast, but not expecting

02:47too much in the way of rainfall totals. In the west, Perth will actually be our coldest capital

02:52city tomorrow, just 16 degrees with showers and hail, and also some very brisk winds about the

02:58south coast. Those colder southerly winds will also push all the way up into the Gascoyne and

03:03also up into the Pilbara, elsewhere it will be quite warm and remaining dry. Finally across northern

03:08Australia, not much changed the last few days, just a few showers about the top end, a warm day

03:13in Darwin, 34 degrees. Elsewhere though, warm to hot. So that's your forecast for today, keep across

03:19the latest information and warnings on the Bureau's website and our social media channels, and we'll

03:23see you next time.