The Bureau of Meteorology updates the weather forecast. November 17. Footage is supplied.
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00:00Heat and elevated fire dangers are now easing across southeast Australia but
00:04they are being replaced by rain, wind and storms. So starting off first with a look
00:09at the satellite loop from Sunday morning, we can see from the cloud a cold
00:12front moving through South Australia and Western Victoria. That's bringing cooler
00:16winds behind it as well as some showers and it's helping to ease those fire
00:20weather conditions across Western Victoria, but we do remind communities to
00:23stay up-to-date with the latest information from your local fire
00:26authorities. Ahead of the cold front we do see some very thick cloud and that's
00:30associated with rain and storms and that's where we do have severe weather
00:34warnings current on Sunday and they cover parts of New South Wales, northeast
00:38Victoria and northeast Tasmania for damaging winds and heavy rainfall. First
00:43for damaging winds we are likely to see further wind gusts today of above 90
00:47kilometres an hour within these areas here. We could also see locally
00:50destructive wind gusts of more than 125 kilometres an hour and we have already
00:55seen those observations for elevated parts of Victoria. For rainfall we could
00:59see six hourly totals of up to 60 millimetres and isolated intense falls
01:03for up to 80 millimetres generating flash flooding. Conditions will ease
01:07across Tasmania on Sunday afternoon and for northeast Victoria and southeast
01:11New South Wales conditions will ease heading into Sunday evening. We also do
01:15have another severe weather warning current and that's for southwestern
01:18parts of Victoria along the coast from Portland through Warrnambool and to Cape
01:22Otway. Those are for damaging winds above 90 kilometres an hour behind the cold
01:26front and that will start to ramp up from Sunday afternoon and into Sunday
01:30evening. Looking more broadly across eastern Australia though for Sunday we
01:34do have quite an extensive thunderstorm risk extending all the way from Tasmania
01:38and up into southern Queensland as indicated by these green shades through
01:42here. But within the yellow shading we could see severe thunderstorms develop
01:46from Sunday afternoon bringing heavy rainfall, damaging winds and large hail
01:50and within the red area here that's where we could see destructive wind gusts
01:54as well as intense rainfall leading to flash flooding. So if you are in these
01:57areas here do keep an eye on the radar and warnings through the day. So we could
02:02see severe thunderstorms pop up for Canberra as well as the Blue Mountains
02:05possibly even pushing into western Sydney. So step-by-step look at what we
02:09can expect. Starting off with Sunday afternoon we see this cold front sitting
02:13through Victoria and some cold air and very gusty conditions behind that with
02:17this low pressure system. Moving through the afternoon this will all start to
02:20move towards the east so heavy rain will push into the New South Wales western
02:24slopes but conditions will ease further south but it will remain quite windy
02:28especially along the coast. Conditions do clear into Monday but the risk of severe
02:32thunderstorms does push into northeast New South Wales and southern Queensland.
02:36So with the rain and storms still on the way for large parts of southeast
02:39Australia make sure you have the latest information and warnings for our website
02:43and social media. Make sure as well you follow all advice in local emergency
02:47services.