Cold fronts to bring showers, thunderstorms, damaging winds and temperatures well below
average for this time of year across large parts of southeastern Australia. Now the driver of
this firstly is a cold front moving through yesterday and this morning and that's brought
bands of showers and thunderstorms with some severe thunderstorms seen yesterday and again
today. It also brought widespread rainfall to parts of Victoria Tasmania and southern New South
Wales with the highest Falls was 74 millimeters at Perisher Valley. Now it also brought a fair
bit of wind with it as well. Yesterday we saw winds gassing to near 100 kilometers an hour
with thunderstorms in northwestern parts of New South Wales and around 115 kilometers an hour into
northeastern parts of Victoria through our Alpine areas. Now today as this cold front moved through,
some storms have brought some damaging winds through parts of Sydney and further inland where
we've seen those really strong and gusty winds there and also still continuing to gust around
100 kilometers an hour or in excess of that through parts of elevated air areas of Victoria
and New South Wales. Now with all this wind with this system we're seeing damaging winds through
the Victorian border all the way up through the Hunter area for many of our eastern elevated parts
of New South Wales. This just means that winds are strong enough to bring down trees and power lines
and cause some minor damage to property there. Now looking at weather today and the coming days
we can see this band of rain and storms quickly moving eastwards to New South Wales and into
Southeastern parts of Queensland today where severe thunderstorms are possible with large
hail damaging winds and heavy rainfall. But west of there it'll clear out through inland New South
Wales. Then tomorrow our eyes will move southwards once again as the next cold front moves through
Victoria and Tasmania bringing showers local hail and thunder and much colder temperatures,
while the storm threat will continue through parts of southeast Queensland with severe thunderstorms
once again likely. Now it is behind this cold front that is really going to bring this really
cold air to much of southeastern Australia and that's thanks to a high pressure system in the
bite and this low pressure system out here in the Tasman Sea driving this really strong
cold southerly winds for multiple days across southeastern parts of the country that's leading
to temperatures 5 to 15 degrees below average for many locations and for some it could be the
coldest December day or December night on record particularly as we even do Thursday and Friday as
you see this continuation of this cold southerly wind. Now looking at these temperatures in a
little bit more detail we can see these maximums and minimums looking into the high yeens into the
low 20s through parts of Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales and the minimums will get even
colder as we get into the latter part of the week. Now look at these temperatures in more detail,
Monday Tuesday we're seeing temperatures in the 20s and then it really is Wednesday and
Thursday behind that really strong cold front we're going to see temperatures into the teens
getting up into Central parts of New South Wales and that's up to 15 degrees below average there
and it's also the minimums are going to be cold particularly on Wednesday and Thursday
morning where a map like this is something you'd see more so in Winter rather than the
first month of Summer and we're also seeing a frost risk associated with this as well so we
could see frost developing along some of our elevated areas of New South Wales Victoria and
Tasmania particularly on Wednesday morning, Thursday morning and again on Friday morning
as well and with all this cold air and a bit of rainfall snow yes that's right snow is also
likely to impact our elevated areas of Tasmania and Victoria particularly behind this cold front
on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning and again Wednesday night into Thursday morning donated by
these areas in pink. So a burst of winter is on the way for much of southeastern Australia. So
if you are out and about in the coming days with these showers, thunderstorms damaging
winds and cold and icy conditions remember to stay up to date with the latest forecasts and
warnings vary our website app and social media and listen to all advice from Emergency Services