00:00South Eastern Australia copping the brunt of damaging winds and very high
00:04tides throughout the course of Monday and that is the focus of this severe
00:08weather video I'm Angus I'm here at the Bureau today is Monday the 13th of July
00:12let's dive right into it what is happening well a cold front has moved
00:16across Tasmania this morning and behind that cold front we see this burst of
00:20really strong westerly winds moving from down here through the Bass Strait
00:24funneling some really damaging wind gusts around parts of northern Tasmania
00:28and that's a little bit easier to see if we just change the map so we're looking
00:32at the wind focus on the reds focus on the purples that's the strongest wind flow
00:36here see how it really funnels through the strait that means it's really gusty
00:40around northern Tasmania parts of the the islands in Bass Strait as well it's a
00:45little tougher to see on this map but also getting very windy around the
00:48alpine areas in northern Victoria and southern New South Wales tonight as this
00:52cold front moves away notice how we drop back to greens and yellows that means
00:55the wind is easing tonight another little pulse of strong wind waiting in the wings
01:00for tomorrow although that one unlikely to be quite as windy as today so what
01:05warnings have we managed to squeeze out of the strong wind event well there's
01:08quite a few of them small areas but numerous areas now in northern Tasmania the
01:13northeast the northwest and the islands here in the Bass Strait it's really
01:17powerful westerlies throughout the course of today hundred kilometer an hour wind
01:20gusts may be stronger in a few spots that will peak this afternoon before
01:25easing off this evening a little further northwards across Alpine Victoria and the
01:29snowy mountains those winds could continue into this evening and tomorrow
01:33morning probably easing before sunrise on Tuesday the winds up here could be a
01:39hundred and ten kilometers an hour and there has been quite a bit of snow
01:41recently that means that snow could get blown around and whipped up and lead to
01:45very low visibility and blizzard like conditions alongside these wind warnings
01:50we have a separate set of warnings these are not for wind these are for
01:54abnormally high tides around the high tide time this evening Monday evening so
01:59for an example the lakes entrance high tide is around about 10 past 7 p.m. this
02:04evening that time will vary a little bit depending on where you live on the
02:08coast but generally it is going to be between 6 and 8 p.m. this evening where we
02:13could see really high tides the water sitting well above the usual high tide
02:17mark potentially leading to inundation the warning extends from the southern
02:21tip of the Mornington Peninsula down past Wilson's prom and out towards Orbost so
02:26it covers the majority of the Gippsland coast and we have a similar high tide
02:30warning for southeastern Tasmania in and around the Hobart area this one extends
02:35from Orford down to Dover the high tide here is a little bit earlier in the
02:39evening approximately 6 30 p.m. around Hobart and similar for most surrounding
02:44areas now to summarize some of the impacts that we expect to see from this
02:48severe weather over the next 12 to 18 hours of course we could see wind damage
02:53that means trees down and potential damage to property maybe some power
02:57outages but we could also see seawater inundation that means flooding at the
03:02coastline as that seawater rises onshore into places it can't normally reach that
03:07can mean flooding for walkways car parks some roads and potentially some property
03:12as well and of course both of those can lead to travel delays and travel
03:16disruption so there's a really good reason to keep an eye on your weather
03:19forecast any weather warnings if you live in southeastern Australia for today
03:23you can always get the latest updates on the Bureau's website and the BOM
03:26weather app thank you so much for watching and stay safe
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