Cold front intensifying across South Australia, Victoria, NSW, Tasmania

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Winter is about to feel a lot colder across the country!

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00:00Hello and happy Friday, Angus at the Bureau, let's check out how the weather's looking this

00:03weekend across the country. First thing, if you haven't noticed it already, you probably will,

00:08the cold weather just getting reinforced over the course of the weekend, some big waves on the way

00:12for eastern areas too but before we get into that, I wanted to take a quick look at southern

00:17South Australia which got a little bit of rainfall overnight as we can see in the early morning

00:21radar imagery from this morning. Now it wasn't huge amounts of rainfall, generally 10 to 20

00:27millimetres around Adelaide and the Mount Lofty ranges and just 1 to 5 millimetres elsewhere,

00:32but it was significant because it has been so dry in this part of the country for months on end,

00:37so a little bit of rainfall, they do want more, but a little bit of wet weather this morning,

00:41we'll see that leading band cleared up by about 5am, but just in the last couple of hours

00:46approaching lunchtime, a few further showers pushing into that part of the country, so welcome

00:51rainfall, hopefully a little more on the way next week. Elsewhere around the country, checking out

00:56what's going on on Saturday morning, a bit of wet weather around coastal New South Wales, a push

01:01of chilly southerlies bringing showers to the coast and the adjacent inland ranges,

01:05a little bit of rainfall also expected around this kind of meeting point between Victoria,

01:09New South Wales and South Australia, patchy wet weather for parts of WA with a front

01:14off the south west coast, but really it's the cold temperatures which will be taking the headlines

01:19again tomorrow, widespread temperatures in the low single digits tomorrow morning, much like

01:23they were this morning and yesterday morning, in particular parts of southern Queensland,

01:28way below average, temperatures about 0 or 1 degrees there, and low single digits all across

01:33the southeast, upper single digits through this area, and the normal smattering of 15s to 20s

01:39across the tropical north. Daytime temperatures not quite as cold, still a couple of degrees

01:44below average across eastern states including a high of just 11 in Hobart with a couple of chilly

01:50wintry showers. Now compared to the last few days, not actually as much frost in the forecast

01:54for tomorrow, part of that because there'll be stronger winds and cloud cover for some of these

01:58areas but still a bit of frost for the south as well as some elevated parts of Queensland

02:03and New South Wales. Sunday will be another cold day dominated by high pressure, now a few changes

02:09though, that rain along the New South Wales coast leaves the country, drier sunnier weather there,

02:14except for a few showers around eastern Victoria and eastern parts of Tasmania,

02:19and in the west we will get a front crossing WA but it weakens away really really quickly,

02:24and compared to the last couple of fronts in the production line which have brought some

02:27punchy changes in the weather, this one will pass without too much of an issue.

02:32What I did want to note is the waves which are impacting eastern parts of the country as the

02:36weekend comes to a close, being driven by this big low pressure area in the Tasman

02:41that is going to generate some very large surf along eastern parts of Tasmania,

02:45the far east of Victoria, but in particular the coast of New South Wales. When we're looking at

02:49these pink purple colours we're looking at waves of 6-7m, so really big surf for this area. Now

02:55don't be surprised to see coastal hazard warnings issued for some of these eastern places, very large

03:00hazardous surf around New South Wales and around the eastern islands. Jumping ahead into rainfall

03:07now, we'll take a look at the country first, a lot of places getting no rain this weekend,

03:10there will be a little bit of the Gascoyne area and northern WA which could see some moderate

03:14falls but just light 5-10mm stuff elsewhere in the west and we'll zoom in on the southeast

03:20because some slightly more significant rainfall here, particularly along the New South Wales

03:24coastline, that's probably the heaviest falls expected this weekend. Most of the rain here

03:28will be Friday night and Saturday morning when we could see 20-40mm, yet another wet start to

03:34the weekend for spots like Sydney, the Illawarra and the Hunter Coast. Elsewhere, patchy falls,

03:39really welcome rain in this area, dry through here so anything they can get will be greatly received

03:44and some really cold wintry showers for Hobart. Temperature wise it's another chilly one on

03:49Sunday, zero or sub zero degree temperatures through a broad region here are possible,

03:54low single digits as well and everyone else looking around about the seasonal average and

03:58a chilly afternoon on Sunday as well, low to mid teens all the way through New South Wales, ACT,

04:04Victoria and Tasmania, southern parts of Queensland also quite chilly and it's about

04:09seasonal elsewhere. If you want to see what your weekend has in store for your neighbourhood,

04:13you can check out your local Forecasts at the Bureau website and app,

04:16and stay up to date on social media too.

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