Warnings in place over the weekend for damaging winds in Victoria and New South Wales

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Southern and South-eastern Australia have been experiencing some wild weather this week. The Bureau of Meteorology says we can expect clearer skies in the near future.

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00:00Overnight and into this morning we've seen the vast majority of the severe thunderstorms

00:06both weaken and move away from the country.

00:09So the areas that were getting hit quite hard on Friday through Victoria and New South Wales

00:13in particular, for those places the threat today has passed as those thunderstorms have

00:19eased and moved away.

00:20So there are no longer any severe thunderstorm warnings, which we had all through the day

00:23yesterday and into the night as well, and the severe weather warnings have finished

00:27as well.

00:28There are a couple of slightly smaller warnings still in place.

00:31There is a coastal hazard warning or a hazardous surf warning in place I should say for parts

00:35of the New South Wales coast, but there's still some big waves along the eastern side

00:39of the country, and in the wake of yesterday's rainfall there's a couple of minor flood warnings

00:44in place.

00:45So that is the Kiwa River, which is in north-east Victoria, and the North Esk River, which is

00:49in north-east Tasmania.

00:52Those are just the two rivers with elevated river levels at the moment.

00:54So across those southeastern areas, so Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales and ACT, the thunderstorm

01:00threat has passed.

01:01We could still see a few further showers and some cool winds, particularly this morning,

01:06but from this afternoon or this evening onwards we have several calmer, more settled days,

01:11with some sunshine coming in as well, getting quite warm actually through the first half

01:14of next week.

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