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Bureau of Meteorology severe weather update January 28
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1/28/2025
BOM warning: Heatwaves, damaging winds and severe storms in NSW on Tuesday.
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Widespread heatwaves, a powerful southerly buster and severe thunderstorms are all set
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to impact New South Wales today, Tuesday, so we've got no time to spare, let's dive
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right into it.
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First we're going to talk about the heat and the heatwaves, covering large parts of
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the country at the moment, but the focus for this severe weather video is really on New
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South Wales, so that is where we're going to hone in on.
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Low intensity to severe intensity heatwaves across northern and eastern parts of the state,
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with today, Tuesday, being the hottest day of the heatwave period.
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These are some of the temperatures we are dealing with.
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With a forecast maximum of 40 degrees in central Sydney, that could be 42 or 43 for those western
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suburbs like Penrith and Richmond.
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Newcastle high 30s, a little cooler in Wollongong at 34, we'll discuss why in a little bit,
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and inland parts are all fairly hot, up to as high as 44 for the far northwest.
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So across New South Wales there is no escaping the heat today, at least until the cold wind
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change arrives, and this is where we start talking about our southerly buster.
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So a southerly buster is a powerful change in wind to a much colder wind that comes from
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the south and it can be a very very strong damaging wind as well.
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So this is the buster here with those arrows coming up from the south up to this dashed
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blue line, and by about midday on Tuesday, it's already moved across the south coast
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of New South Wales and it will continue to move northwards through the Illawarra, perhaps
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through Wollongong at around 2 o'clock, that's why it will cool off there, reaching Sydney
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around 4 o'clock this afternoon, reaching Newcastle around 7 o'clock this evening, and
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then into the mid north coast by the end of the day.
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As that southerly wind does blow northwards up the coastline it could be very strong and
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we're seeing the potential for damaging wind gusts of 90 to 100 kilometres an hour along
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the coast, giving us a damaging wind warning.
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So we'll zoom in to have a little bit of a closer look.
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The warning is from Wollongong up to just north of Gosford and it's really covering
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exposed coastal parts including around eastern Sydney where we could see those very strong
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gusts this afternoon, upwards of 90 kilometres an hour.
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Strong winds can have a lot of impacts including bringing branches and entire trees down, potentially
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leading to power outages and it can make for difficult driving conditions, particularly
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in tall vehicles like caravans as well as on motorbikes.
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If that's not enough, the powerful southerly buster will also kick off some showers and
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thunderstorms across New South Wales this afternoon.
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Most eastern areas are going to be impacted so we'll take a look at our thunderstorm map
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for the day today.
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Large parts of eastern and northern New South Wales could see some storm activity in all
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of these shaded areas but the ones we're really interested in are the yellow and red areas
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because that is where severe thunderstorms may occur and severe thunderstorms can bring
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really nasty weather, heavy rainfall that can lead to flash flooding, damaging winds
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and large hailstones.
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The yellow region which is where severe thunderstorms are possible goes all the way from the south
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coast up and towards the northern Tablelands and we've got this slightly smaller red area
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which is where severe thunderstorms are looking most likely today, covering far western parts
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of Sydney up into the Blue Mountains and central Tablelands and up into the southern Hunter
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as well.
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If you are in that part of the state, do keep a close watch on any weather information and
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severe weather warnings which are issued throughout the day.
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You can always find the latest on the Bureau website and app.
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Thanks for watching, stay safe.
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