Multiple rounds of rain are crossing southern Australia this week, bringing widespread wet weather and a risk of flooding to parts of the country.<\/p>\n
\nI’m Angus here at the Bureau of Meteorology. This is our Severe Weather Update for the 30th of June. And let’s start off with some observations by way of the rain radar.<\/p>\n
\nThis is showing us what has already fallen in the last 12 hours.<\/p>\n
\nAnd we could see two areas of rain really across the country, the first in the east and south-east.<\/p>\n
\nThis has been bringing some decent falls to parts of inland New South Wales, much of regional Victoria, northern parts of Tasmania, even a little bit of rain in southern interior Queensland.<\/p>\n
\nYesterday this bought some rain to South Australia.<\/p>\n
\nOn the other side of the country we’ve got some wet weather too, not quite so cohesive of a band of rain, but certainly some showery conditions over the southern corner of Western Australia, bringing some pretty wintry weather around Perth at the moment and other parts of the far south-west.<\/p>\n
\nNow these are two of our weather systems that we are going to be tracking over the course of the next few days.<\/p>\n
\nSo let’s jump into the forecast now and we’ll see this eastern system moves off the country by the end of the day today, weakening as it does so.<\/p>\n
\nAnd by tonight the western system is the one which is going to be taking precedence.<\/p>\n
\nNow this will be crossing the border between Western Australia and South Australia about midnight tonight.<\/p>\n
\nSo Tuesday this becomes the main focal point for central and eastern parts of the country.<\/p>\n
\nInitially it races across South Australia on Wednesday morning, then across to the eastern states into Wednesday afternoon, with another broad band of rain stretching from the interior of Queensland throughout New South Wales and across Tasmania and Victoria as well.<\/p>\n
\nNow for tomorrow, for Wednesday it’s not just the rain which could be a factor, but we’re certainly expecting some thunderstorm activity to develop along this weather system as it sweeps eastwards.<\/p>\n
\nAnd here is our thunderstorm forecast for Wednesday. Now in particular, draw your eye to the yellow and the red on the map here.<\/p>\n
\nThat shows where severe thunderstorms could occur. And the severe thunderstorms are most likely to occur in the red area.<\/p>\n
\nSo let’s zoom in a little bit.<\/p>\n
\nReminder of some of the hazards that severe thunderstorms do tend to bring, now damaging to destructive wind gusts.<\/p>\n
\nWe could see damaging winds through any of these yellow or red areas, but the risk for destructive wind gusts is out here towards the tri-state border.<\/p>\n
\nEastern parts of South Australia, south-western parts of New South Wales, north-western parts of Victoria.<\/p>\n
\nWith those winds could really be strongest from about lunchtime into the afternoon tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\nWe could also see some large hailstones across this red, maybe into the yellow area as well, and the potential for some pockets of heavy rainfall as these severe thunderstorms do get very active throughout the course of Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\nBeyond Wednesday looking into Thursday, we’ve got our second band of rain out to the east and off the country, quickly followed up by a third band of wet weather.<\/p>\n
\nThis one’s coming up from the south and it’s a little bit different compared to the last two. This one will be starting off in the Southern Ocean, so it’s much colder.<\/p>\n
\nThat means temperatures are dropping.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s really feeling like winter, and this weather system could bring some snow to alpine areas towards the end of the week.<\/p>\n
\nSo with three bands of rain moving across southern Australia through the course of the next 4 to 5 days, what are we looking at in terms of total rainfall amounts.<\/p>\n
\nHere is our full week’s worth of rainfall compiled onto one map between now and the end of the day, Friday.<\/p>\n
\nAnd let’s hone in on south-eastern parts of the country, which is where we’re likely to see the most significant falls. So take a look for the dark reds leading into purple colours.<\/p>\n
\nThat’s where we could see well in excess of 50 mm, possibly up to 100 mm, and likely some alpine areas above 100 mm of rain in the coming days.<\/p>\n
\nSo for Tasmania, we’re really looking across the north coast and the northern slopes of the ranges. Much of Victoria towards that higher end of the spectrum.<\/p>\n
\nBut those largest values likely to be across the north-eastern ranges.<\/p>\n
\nFor New South Wales, it’s the south-eastern ranges which are looking to pick up the most rain.<\/p>\n
\nThat’s the Snowy Mountains and parts of the Southern Tablelands, but decent falls through all western slopes and plains out towards the Riverina and into the western districts, as well.<\/p>\n
\nDo take a note that most of the rain is going to fall west of the Great Dividing Range and the east coast here just some greens and blues.<\/p>\n
\nMuch, much lower rainfall for the week.<\/p>\n
\nSo if you live on the east coast, you’re not seeing the worst of this weather system.<\/p>\n
\nWith rainfall numbers this high, does get us thinking is there a potential for flooding?<\/p>\n
\nAnd there certainly is a potential for flooding, especially across north-eastern Victoria in the coming few days. We’ve already got one Flood Warning issued.<\/p>\n
\nThat’s a minor flood warning for the Kiewa River in the far north-east.<\/p>\n
\nBut there’s a much broader Flood Watch area which covers approximately this area here through the north-east of Victoria and parts of the far south of New South Wales, where there’s about 8 to 10 rivers under Flood Watch that’s saying, heads up there’s a chance that there’s flooding on the way through the next few days that could be minor, moderate or potentially even major flooding.<\/p>\n
\nSo definitely keep an eye on this space and stay up to date with the warnings throughout the course of the week ahead.<\/p>\n
\nNow, primarily we’re talking about flooding and rain, but there’s also going to be some damaging wind gusts.<\/p>\n
\nThis is a damaging wind warning for alpine areas in north-eastern Victoria.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s been windy there this morning.<\/p>\n
\nGusts of 100 km to 110 km an hour already reported, with more potential on the way today and then again through the next couple of days.<\/p>\n
\nSo just finally wanting to wrap up a couple of the weather hazards that we’re watching out for with this prolonged spell of rain.<\/p>\n
\nReally one of the key ones is that riverine flooding as rivers rise and maybe burst their banks, leading to flooding in some areas, most likely in northern Victoria.<\/p>\n
\nReally dangerous conditions on the roads with lots of water, potentially some branches getting thrown around by those strong winds.<\/p>\n
\nAnd one thing I’ve barely even mentioned, but if you live down on the coastline, we could be seeing some really large waves and some very high tides.<\/p>\n
\nThat includes Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and parts of Tasmania.<\/p>\n
\nSo keep on the lookout for local warnings or tidal information for your area.<\/p>\n
\nSo lots going on across the country this week.<\/p>\n
\nStay up to date with the latest warnings, the latest forecasts on the Bureau’s website.<\/p>\n
\nYou can keep an eye on the rain radar on the website and the app, as well.<\/p>\n
\nPretty good week to be watching that rain.<\/p>\n
\nThanks so much for watching.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple rounds of rain are crossing southern Australia this week, bringing widespread wet weather and a risk of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-769236","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\/769236","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=769236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}