00:00 Hello, Sarah from the Bureau with an update on the northwest cloud band and the developing
00:04 low pressure system off the east coast of New South Wales.
00:08 But we'll start off taking a look at the current severe weather warnings.
00:11 It's been exceptionally windy over the last 24 hours about southeastern parts of the country,
00:17 and we do have wind warnings for alpine areas of Victoria and New South Wales current.
00:22 Overnight, wind gusts in excess of 130 km were recorded through this area, however we
00:27 are expecting the winds to ease later this afternoon below threshold.
00:32 But shifting the focus to Tasmania, the entire state at the moment is covered by a severe
00:38 weather warning for these damaging wind gusts in a northwesterly flow, with these winds
00:42 expected to ease below threshold later this evening.
00:46 Taking a look at the northwest cloud band that's brought all of this rainfall to Australia.
00:51 Now it's cleared Victoria but did end up bringing around 100 mm about northeastern parts of
00:56 Victoria overnight last night into this morning.
00:59 And now it extends all the way from the Kimberley through central parts into eastern New South Wales.
01:05 For the remainder of today, we're forecasting it to start to contract into northeastern
01:10 parts of New South Wales, clearing the Sydney area but continuing through southern and central
01:15 parts of Queensland.
01:17 Now we're expecting widespread rainfall totals with this of 5 to 15 mm, with isolated totals
01:23 of up to 20 to 40 mm within the band as well.
01:27 And on Saturday it will continue to track eastwards and contracting into southeastern
01:33 parts of Queensland with patchy rain and showers continuing to about eastern parts of New South
01:38 Wales and even the potential for some storms inland.
01:42 It's on Saturday night however that a low develops off the northern coast of New South Wales.
01:48 And as we move into Sunday, it starts to track eastwards and really wrapping moist air into
01:54 the coast there.
01:56 There's the potential for moderate to heavy rainfall through the central and southern
02:00 coasts including the Hunter, the Sydney Metro, the Illawarra and the Blue Mountains that
02:05 may lead to both riverine and flash flooding.
02:09 Now also there's a really tight pressure gradient with that low pressure system so gale force
02:13 winds are also possible about the marine areas and hazardous surf as well.
02:18 So if we track through to Sunday night it continues slowly moving southwards and it's
02:24 the lows, it's not too close to the east coast there and it's because of that reason we're
02:29 reluctant to call it an east coast low, where an east coast low is a high end severe weather
02:35 event.
02:36 However this is an evolving weather situation and if the low does end up nudging a bit closer
02:41 to the coast it may be upgraded over the weekend.
02:44 So it's important for residents of eastern New South Wales to stay up to date with our
02:47 latest forecasts and warnings this weekend.
02:51 Now on Monday that low will start to skirt southwards with the rain shifting out of New
02:56 South Wales and the focus moving into eastern parts of Victoria and Tasmania.
03:03 So how much rainfall are we talking with this system?
03:06 This is from this morning through until Sunday evening and you can see that the heaviest
03:11 totals are about that central coast of New South Wales where some pink areas up to 100mm
03:17 are possible.
03:19 So again if you do live across eastern parts of New South Wales it's really important
03:24 that you do stay up to date with the latest Bureau's forecasts and warnings this weekend
03:28 via the Bureau website, app and social media.
03:31 Bye for now.
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