BOM issues a severe weather warning for damaging winds in Tasmania

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The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for damaging westerly winds across Tasmania. Senior meteorologist Dean Narramore says the state can expect winds of up to 120 kilometres an hour.

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00:00Very windy down through Tasmania at the moment.

00:05Mount Wellington has gusted to 139km this morning.

00:09We're seeing gusts of 75-80km an hour around the Hobart area and many of our exposed locations

00:15in excess of 100.

00:16Damaging wind warnings are current for much of southern, central and eastern parts of

00:21Tasmania for this morning as we could see winds anywhere from 100-120km an hour and

00:27that could bring down trees and power lines and cause some property damage.

00:30We're expecting the winds to continue through to about lunchtime and then slowly ease this

00:34afternoon and should be calm as by tonight into tomorrow.

00:36Even though it's been really wet through parts of northern and western Tasmania, it

00:40generally dries out as it's been very windy through eastern parts so these strong winds

00:44and dry air with this front, because there's not much rain with it, is causing these elevated

00:48fire dangers and that's similar further north as well through parts of New South Wales.

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