Tropical cyclone conditions and other weather this weekend

Check out the weather this weekend across Australia.

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00:00We're tracking Cyclone Zelia.

00:04It's now about 100km north of Port Hedland as it heads towards WA's Pilbara coast.

00:11It's most likely to make landfall this afternoon.

00:13The Bureau's tracker is currently indicating around 5pm Western Standard Time.

00:19It certainly is a monster.

00:21It's already packing winds of 285km per hour and that could get to 320km per hour near

00:29its centre as it crosses the coast, bringing possibly a very dangerous storm tide and also

00:36a big dumping of rain with potential flash flooding warnings in the area.

00:42Now you can see the satellite shows that huge band of cloud, that's as that trough extends

00:49through southern NT and into NSW and also Victoria.

00:54But we also have high fire danger conditions in much of the country.

00:59That includes an out of control bushfire that is currently raging down in Carina and surrounds

01:04in Tasmania's northwest, while rain continues to soak parts of the east with severe warnings

01:11for potential flash flooding around Victoria and NSW Alps.

01:17So looking ahead, we are going to see heavy rain and storms continue in north and central

01:22WA, while those showers and storms are going to clear for much of the east coast as the

01:28change moves offshore.

01:30So the main bulk of those rain totals will be in WA.

01:34You can see the purple denoting more than 400mm.

01:37In fact, we're expecting around 500mm or so of rain in that region.

01:43So let's check the weather for the start of your weekend.

01:46And Brisbane, you've got a shower or two and 29 degrees.

01:49Sydney, you'll have the same as well as a possible storm and a top of 27.

01:54It'll be partly cloudy though in Canberra and 24.

01:57Melbourne's got a shower or two and it's going to become windy.

02:00It'll get up to 18 degrees.

02:02For Hobart, you'll have showers as well and just 16.

02:06Cloudy skies in Adelaide and 23.

02:09Perth though, you'll be sunny and it will be very hot, 35 degrees for you.

02:13And up top, Darwin, showers and a possible storm and it's getting to 31.