Cold front and rain band sweeping across Australia

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A severe weather warning is in place for alpine areas of NSW, Victoria, and Tasmania with winds of up to 130km in some parts. Meanwhile, the rest of the country will likely experience a very wet and cold first weekend of June, 2024.

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00:00 Hello, Sarah from the Bureau with an update on the northwest cloud band and the developing

00:04 low pressure system off the east coast of New South Wales.

00:08 But we'll start off taking a look at the current severe weather warnings.

00:11 It's been exceptionally windy over the last 24 hours about southeastern parts of the country,

00:17 and we do have wind warnings for alpine areas of Victoria and New South Wales current.

00:22 Overnight, wind gusts in excess of 130 km were recorded through this area, however we

00:27 are expecting the winds to ease later this afternoon below threshold.

00:32 But shifting the focus to Tasmania, the entire state at the moment is covered by a severe

00:38 weather warning for these damaging wind gusts in a northwesterly flow, with these winds

00:42 expected to ease below threshold later this evening.

00:46 Taking a look at the northwest cloud band that's brought all of this rainfall to Australia.

00:51 Now it's cleared Victoria but did end up bringing around 100 mm about northeastern parts of

00:56 Victoria overnight last night into this morning.

00:59 And now it extends all the way from the Kimberley through central parts into eastern New South Wales.

01:05 For the remainder of today, we're forecasting it to start to contract into northeastern

01:10 parts of New South Wales, clearing the Sydney area but continuing through southern and central

01:15 parts of Queensland.

01:17 Now we're expecting widespread rainfall totals with this of 5 to 15 mm, with isolated totals

01:23 of up to 20 to 40 mm within the band as well.

01:27 And on Saturday it will continue to track eastwards and contracting into southeastern

01:33 parts of Queensland with patchy rain and showers continuing to about eastern parts of New South

01:38 Wales and even the potential for some storms inland.

01:42 It's on Saturday night however that a low develops off the northern coast of New South Wales.

01:48 And as we move into Sunday, it starts to track eastwards and really wrapping moist air into

01:54 the coast there.

01:56 There's the potential for moderate to heavy rainfall through the central and southern

02:00 coasts including the Hunter, the Sydney Metro, the Illawarra and the Blue Mountains that

02:05 may lead to both riverine and flash flooding.

02:09 Now also there's a really tight pressure gradient with that low pressure system so gale force

02:13 winds are also possible about the marine areas and hazardous surf as well.

02:18 So if we track through to Sunday night it continues slowly moving southwards and it's

02:24 the lows, it's not too close to the east coast there and it's because of that reason we're

02:29 reluctant to call it an east coast low, where an east coast low is a high end severe weather

02:35 event.

02:36 However this is an evolving weather situation and if the low does end up nudging a bit closer

02:41 to the coast it may be upgraded over the weekend.

02:44 So it's important for residents of eastern New South Wales to stay up to date with our

02:47 latest forecasts and warnings this weekend.

02:51 Now on Monday that low will start to skirt southwards with the rain shifting out of New

02:56 South Wales and the focus moving into eastern parts of Victoria and Tasmania.

03:03 So how much rainfall are we talking with this system?

03:06 This is from this morning through until Sunday evening and you can see that the heaviest

03:11 totals are about that central coast of New South Wales where some pink areas up to 100mm

03:17 are possible.

03:19 So again if you do live across eastern parts of New South Wales it's really important

03:24 that you do stay up to date with the latest Bureau's forecasts and warnings this weekend

03:28 via the Bureau website, app and social media.

03:31 Bye for now.

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