{"id":500444,"date":"2026-02-24T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500444\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:01:08","slug":"delays-at-airport-after-deluge-widespread-power-outages-emergency-warnings-ease-ses-crews-responding-to-almost-200-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500444\/","title":{"rendered":"Delays at airport after deluge, widespread power outages; Emergency warnings ease; SES crews responding to almost 200 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Hayes, senior forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology, was just on ABC Radio Melbourne, where he confirmed the storms that hit Melbourne this afternoon are largely clearing.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency warnings remain in place for people in the south-east \u2013 including Koo Wee Rup, Lang Lang, Pakenham and Gembrook \u2013 to shelter indoors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Making a splash on Johnston Street, near Hoddle Street.  \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7004520a274ea69b590535dce59d22da6ae06a9e.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 bnWZMz\"\/>Making a splash on Johnston Street, near Hoddle Street.  Eddie Jim<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen a few places that have been coming close to that one millimetre per minute,\u201d Hayes said. \u201cThere is the potential that we could see some quite significant flash-flooding risk as those thunderstorms continue to move through the areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gisborne received 32 millimetres of rain in one hour, while in Melbourne\u2019s outer north, Konagaderra received 22 millimetres in half an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes stressed that people shouldn\u2019t drive unless they have to, and should stay away from floodwaters.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes was followed by Powercor\u2019s Emma Tyner, who said the electricity distributor was working to restore power to 4400 customers as of 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few of the larger outages include Port Melbourne, impacting about 2041 customers,\u201d she told radio station 774.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve still got one around the Thornbury area impacting about 1085 customers, and Northcote 765 customers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Hayes, senior forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology, was just on ABC Radio Melbourne, where he confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-500444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}