Brisbane and Sydney expected to experience warmer Spring weather

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Spring volatile weather is on full display this week with storms in parts of south-eastern Australia set to be replaced with a burst of summer. Some parts of the country are forecast to reach 40 degrees as warmth from the desert is funnelled towards the south and east. To discuss the road ahead Sarah Scully from the Bureau of Meteorology speaks to the ABC.

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00:00There's very high temperatures across the north, as you mentioned some places are pushing

00:06up beyond 40 degrees and we do have a heat wave warning across the top end.

00:10But for the south east this weekend will be the warmest weekend since autumn really, or

00:15since the other side of winter.

00:17For instance Adelaide is going to have a top of 29 degrees both today and tomorrow.

00:22For Melbourne today top of 25, tomorrow top 28, even down in Hobart getting up to 25 degrees.

00:29So these temperatures are 5 to 8 degrees above the October average, but there's even warmer

00:35temperatures as we head further inland.

00:38But with those higher temperatures we're also bringing in some wind.

00:41As you mentioned it's the winds that are dragging that heat down from the interior over the

00:46south east and tomorrow Sunday is going to be particularly windy and those strong winds

00:51combining with the warmth and the heat will elevate fire dangers.

00:54So they're expected to peak across northwestern Victoria in the Mallee district with fire

00:59weather warnings likely to be issued, but even reaching up to high across Tasmania over

01:05the weekend as well.

01:06And there's also a risk for some damaging wind gusts with these gusty northwesterly winds across

01:12elevated parts of Victoria and even potentially the exposed coast during Sunday and across Tasmania,

01:18but they'll ease later on Sunday by Monday.

01:22We were told I know to expect a bit of a wet spring, so is the hot weather expected to

01:26last?

01:27Look, across the south east it's expected to last until another cold front sweeps that

01:32heat away early next week.

01:35There's been some very hot weather throughout southern parts of WA, but they've got a cold

01:40front with a cloud band pushing across this weekend, bringing some fairly widespread rain

01:45to central and southern parts of WA.

01:49So at the moment we're still in that sort of transition season, transitioning from the

01:53colder temperatures of winter until eventually those more persistent warmer temperatures of

01:57summer.

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