00:00The third and final cold front for the week is crossing southern Australia, bringing wet
00:04and very windy weather to parts of the south. Once that's cleared we will finally see the end of
00:10what has been a wet and woolly week in southern areas heading towards a finer weekend. I'm Angus
00:15here at the Bureau of Meteorology, this is a severe weather update for the 2nd of July.
00:20We will start off by looking at a couple of bands of rain over the last day or two. Big
00:25band of rain
00:26yesterday, some thunderstorms embedded in that crossing New South Wales, Victoria,
00:30Northern Tasmania as well. That one is now clearing out into the ocean and we've got this next band
00:35with the next cold front moving on to the country. This one's not quite so well defined and the rainfall
00:40is not as heavy with this one but certainly still seeing some top up rainfall along this axis here
00:45and the combination of these weather systems has brought a wet week to parts of the southeast.
00:50This is some rainfall numbers that we've picked up on our weather stations across the southeast,
00:5448 hour rainfall totals here from 10am Tuesday to 10am Thursday. The largest numbers up around
01:00Northern Victoria, 132 millimetres at Mount Buffalo, about 90 millimetres around Falls Creek and across
01:06the state border into New South Wales at Threadbow there. For South Australia over 100 millimetres
01:11has been recorded around parts of the Mount Lofty ranges east of Adelaide and we've had over 50
01:16millimetres in Adelaide itself, a very wet start to July there and about 30 millimetres in the Eyre
01:21Peninsula. For Tasmania it's been wet across the north of the state with the largest accumulations
01:26being Mount Barrow in the northeast and we actually did see rain extend a good way northwards
01:30yesterday up to 50 millimetres being recorded on the central tablelands of New South Wales around
01:35Orange. That's led to some flooding across the southeast because all that rain has to go somewhere,
01:42it can't all soak into the ground, it ends up flowing down into the rivers and of course those river
01:46levels start to rise and that gives us this patchwork quilt of flood watches and flood warnings across
01:52southern areas. At the moment we've got two moderate flood warnings in Victoria for the Kiwa River and
01:58for the King River across northern parts. There are several more minor flood warnings shown in green
02:04across northern Victoria, southern New South Wales and northeastern Tasmania. And of course the purple
02:09areas on this map are flood watches. These are regions where the flooding might not be occurring at the
02:13moment but there's still a chance that it could occur because there is more rain on the way. So if
02:18you do live on or near waterways in these parts of the country, stay up to date with the warnings
02:22over
02:23the next couple of days because they'll no doubt be added to and adjusted and edited as we track
02:28where the rain falls and how that affects the rivers. Speaking of the next few days, this is what's
02:33going to happen as this next cold front crosses the southeast. It's moving in much the same direction
02:38that the last few cold fronts have moved, not quite as quickly as yesterday's weather system but still
02:43making some good steam eastwards today bringing widespread showers, cold temperatures and perhaps
02:49most significantly a risk of damaging winds. And that's where we've got our warnings in place.
02:54Damaging wind gusts possible across parts of three different states and we have got the three
02:58different warning areas. There's a damaging wind warning for the southeast coast of South Australia
03:03around Robe. Winds there are expected to be strong from Thursday evening into Friday morning
03:08where we could see gusts over 90 kilometres an hour. There's an alpine wind warning for northeastern
03:13New South Wales. Those winds could be even stronger in the mountains up to 110 or 120 kilometres an hour
03:20and that could occur really any stage of the day on Thursday and into Friday morning. Should be
03:24subsiding by around lunchtime tomorrow. Finally there's a warning a little further east for the
03:29eastern side of the ridgeline. That's affecting parts of the southeast coast and parts of the southern
03:34Illawarra in New South Wales. Really windy there through Thursday and into Friday morning and potentially
03:39it's not until Friday afternoon where the strongest of those winds will subside. So those are our
03:45warnings but there's a couple of other things I wanted to give you a heads up on as well. The
03:49first
03:49is we've got some really cold air shown by the pinks and the greys moving in behind our cold front
03:54at
03:55the moment. That's likely to deliver some snowfall to alpine parts of Tasmania, Victoria and southern
04:00New South Wales. We could see between 10 centimetres and 30 centimetres of snow up in alpine areas in the
04:06next
04:0636 hours. Alongside the snow we've also got the potential for some really hazardous conditions on
04:12the water. Some big big waves hitting the coastline of South Australia, also western Victoria pushing
04:17towards western Tasmania as well. The main area of concern here looks to be the far south of the
04:23SA coastline along this stretch here. We could see massive waves 8 to 10 metres in size coinciding
04:30with already pretty high tidal levels. That will make for some really hairy conditions on the water out
04:35there so take care on and near the coastline over the course of the next few days.
04:41And speaking of the next few days let's see how this is likely to evolve through Friday and into
04:46the start of the weekend. The main cold front moves out to the east. There will still be some further
04:50showers through the day on Friday. Cold conditions as well but we'll see those winds slowly dialing back.
04:56And by Saturday well some good news. High pressure moving into the Bight that's really going to settle the
05:01weather pattern across this part of the country. So finally it will be a brighter calmer and clearer
05:06few days from about Saturday onwards. But still a couple of days to get through first so through the
05:12next few days if you want information on the warnings or the flooding or even just to check out
05:16your local forecast you can find all of that weather info on the Bureau's website and the BOM weather app.
05:21Thank you so much for watching, stay safe and have a nice afternoon.
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