Melbourne residents assess damages from last night’s wild weather, conditions expected to continue

Victoria is assessing the damage caused by wild weather overnight, as it prepares for a second front forecast to hit tonight and into tomorrow.

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00:00The winds might have abated here in Melbourne, but the knock-on effects are still being felt

00:07across the state after a really quite wild night of weather overnight.

00:12It caused problems for thousands of commuters, potentially on the Glen Waverley line, when

00:18trees crashed onto the track, causing part of the line to be suspended.

00:23Thankfully, services have now resumed, but we've heard from the SES that says that there

00:29are still scores of jobs that are currently active, from about 300 calls for help.

00:35Since midnight last night, more than 232 of those around the state were for trees that

00:42had come down, and dozens were also for buildings being damaged.

00:48Out in Boronia, in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, we saw a tree crash onto a home, and also

00:54another tree crashed onto part of an apartment block, as well as a car in Collingwood, just

01:00north of the CBD.

01:01Now, this was all caused after these really wild winds packed a punch.

01:06We saw gusts of up to 146 kilometres per hour buffeting Mount Buller in the Alpine regions.

01:14Also 120 kilometre an hour winds were recorded in Warrnambool in the state's southwest, and

01:21even in Melbourne, gusts of around 93 kilometres per hour at Melbourne Airport, and 96 kilometres

01:28per hour down at St Kilda along the foreshore.

01:32But we've heard from senior meteorologist Jonathan Howell that even though there are

01:38going to be spots of milder weather, it isn't the worst of the bad winds.

01:44This is what he had to say.

01:45So if you are across south-eastern Australia, we do have another cold front coming through

01:49tonight, and we will see winds really picking up across South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania,

01:53and New South Wales again.

01:54For Saturday, it will be another very, very windy day.

01:57Then next week, we do see another round of heat developing before more winds.

02:01So it really is that sort of pattern of wind, heat, wind, heat coming on.

02:05But he says the most significant of the fronts is going to be felt on Sunday, going from

02:11Sunday afternoon into the evening and into the early hours of Monday morning.

02:16And that's when we're going to see some really significant winds moving through the south-eastern

02:22part of the country.

02:24And it's not just Victoria that has had severe weather warnings for extreme wind.

02:30Also in South Australia, in the south-east part of the state, as well as the entire area

02:36of Tasmania, also stretching up, as he mentioned, into New South Wales.

02:41And apart from those strong wind warnings across inland areas, we're also seeing gale

02:47warnings around all of the coasts, with some really strong squalls.