Heatwave across the south east, rain to follow

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Extreme heat conditions hitting parts of the east coast over the November 23-24, 2024 weekend.

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00:00Hello, from the Bureau it is Friday the 22nd of November and southeastern Australia is

00:05gripped by a heatwave at the moment, the first for the warm season so far, so let's get

00:10straight in and look at the temperatures that are causing the heatwave.

00:13Widespread 35 degrees plus across South Australia and Victoria, 34 degrees in Melbourne, central

00:19New South Wales copping some of the heat but it is cooler, or at least a bit more mild

00:23along the coast, 26 in Sydney and mild in Tasmania, mid-20s there.

00:29A key part of the story with the heatwave is a warm night tonight, Friday night into

00:33Saturday morning, warm temperatures as we kick off the weekend, these are the minimum

00:38overnight temperatures tonight, 23 degrees in Melbourne, some pretty stifling, uncomfortable

00:43sleeping conditions there and spare a thought for anyone in central SA where we could see

00:4727 or 28 degrees as the overnight minimum temperature there.

00:52Another hot day on Saturday, again Victoria seeing some of those warmest temperatures,

00:56up to 36 in Melbourne, high 20s for Tasmania, 37s and 38s through inland parts of New South

01:03Wales and still just a touch more mild along the coast, not cooled by any stretch with

01:0728 in many of those coastal locations.

01:10Sunday we do see slightly more mild temperatures for Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, the

01:14heat really focuses in on central New South Wales and maybe some of those 30 degree temperatures

01:20do reach the eastern coastline.

01:23Heatwaves are in place across the southeast, the yellow shading here is the low intensity

01:26heatwave, now we don't have warnings for low intensity heatwaves but it does say that we're

01:31in that prolonged stretch of warm days and warm nights across Victoria, southern New

01:35South Wales, parts of elevated Tasmania as well.

01:38The warnings come into play for this here, orange severe intensity heatwaves and that's

01:43mostly focused on the southeastern corner, for Victoria that's the East Gippsland region

01:48and for New South Wales, that is the south coast and snowy mountain regions and we've

01:53got severe heatwave warnings in place for those three districts.

01:57With the hot conditions also comes some elevated fire danger, for Friday we've got extreme

02:02fire danger in parts of western and central South Australia with widespread high fire

02:06danger elsewhere and then on Saturday, parts of northwestern Victoria, the Mallee and the

02:11Wimmera could see extreme fire danger too with moderate to high fire dangers elsewhere.

02:16It would be good to see what's coming after the heat because we've got this few days of

02:20warm weather, then we get the cooling but as the cooling arrives it comes in with a

02:24reasonably significant band of rain and we're expecting to see that build in western SA

02:29on Saturday, spread across South Australia during the day on Saturday with this rain

02:33crossing Adelaide sometime during the afternoon and evening, then the rain arrives in western

02:38Victoria, then Sunday we'll see the wet weather spread across Victoria.

02:42It comes in with the cooler conditions as well, we're not expecting a really nasty frigid

02:47change to cold weather but it certainly takes us from way above average back to around about

02:52average as the wind changes direction and the rain arrives.

02:56It could be a fairly wet weekend actually, all said and told, particularly across parts

03:01of SA, 30-50mm possible in some areas which are typically quite dry, so a wet day Saturday

03:07there, then Sunday some of the rain affects parts of Victoria with potentially more on

03:12the way early next week.

03:14So you're really getting a taste of the heat, then a taste of the wet across southeastern

03:18Australia in the next few days.

03:19So pretty dynamic forecast, do stay up to date with the latest forecasts and warnings

03:23on the Bureau website and app.

03:25Thanks for watching and have a great weekend.

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