Stormy outbreak continues into the weekend

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Hot, stormy weather continues across parts of the east.

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00:00Warm and humid conditions are driving the development of thunderstorms and rain across

00:04large parts of the country.

00:06I'm here at the Bureau with the latest severe weather update to keep you in the loop with

00:09what is happening.

00:11This is radar imagery from this morning with a couple of areas of focus for thunderstorms,

00:16the first being across the tropical north, particularly the top end coast where we have

00:20seen thunderstorms rumbling away through the morning, with that set to continue for the

00:24remainder of the day.

00:26Meanwhile we've also got this band of storms here which has been moving through South Australia

00:29overnight into parts of Western Victoria this morning.

00:32It hasn't been generating huge rainfall, up to about 20mm in areas, but it has been creating

00:38damaging wind gusts through parts of South Australia overnight last night.

00:42As Friday continues, particularly once we get into the afternoon, we expect storms to

00:46become much more extensive across the southeast of the country.

00:50Pay attention to this yellow area here, that's where severe thunderstorms are possible today.

00:56Severe thunderstorms can generate areas of heavy rain which may lead to flash flooding

01:00and they can generate more damaging wind gusts, much like what we saw overnight last night.

01:05The broad region covers a lot of New South Wales, not quite all the way to the coast

01:09so it does not include Sydney, much of central and western Victoria, including the far northern

01:14outskirts of Melbourne, and much of southern and central South Australia, including the

01:18inland suburbs of Adelaide as well.

01:21Broadly speaking, around much of the rest of the country, thunderstorms to continue

01:24today across the tropical north and central areas, but the severe thunderstorm risk looks

01:28less likely in northern Australia.

01:32As we push through Friday and into the weekend, first we see the risk of storms really boom

01:36across this part of the country during Friday afternoon, then on Saturday, clears out of

01:41South Australia, continues around here until about Saturday afternoon.

01:45We will see some clearer weather coming for the second half of the weekend, although we

01:48will see the redevelopment of storms in the centre and the north of Australia.

01:53Rainfall wise, we've got a couple of spots we're watching closely for potential accumulations

01:57over the next 48 hours, which is what we're seeing on this map here.

02:01The two spots which are in our higher end, 50mm plus, firstly around these northern areas

02:06up in the tropics, could definitely see rainfall totals between 50 and 100mm here over the

02:11next couple of days.

02:12Then there's a secondary bullseye of heavier rain down here in New South Wales, which is

02:17a little bit more unusual to occur at this time of year, and that is the reason that

02:22we have focused the severe weather warning on this region down here.

02:25We'll zoom in for a slightly closer look, this warning has just been issued late on

02:29Friday morning, it is a severe weather warning covering both heavy rainfall and damaging

02:34winds around the western slopes and plains of southern New South Wales, and just across

02:39the border into the far north-eastern mountains of Victoria.

02:42Wind gusts could be over 90kmh through here, possibly over 100kmh in those alpine areas,

02:48and rainfall totals could well be between 40 and 60mm for many, with isolated areas

02:5380mm or above.

02:56With those kind of figures in this area we could definitely see damage to loose structures

03:00like fences and outhouses, we could see some flash flooding with those heavier rainfall

03:04totals coming in, particularly overnight tonight and into Saturday morning, and the combination

03:10of strong wind and heavy rain certainly could bring trees down which may cause damage to

03:14property, could spill over roads, or maybe lead to power outages.

03:19Fairly active weather as we move from the week to the weekend so stay up to date with

03:23all the latest weather warnings and forecast information on the Bureau website and app.

03:27Thanks for watching, have a safe weekend.

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