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Con-front-ing conditions for SA, VIC and NSW

Tristan Meyers, Thursday June 30, 2016 - 16:18 AEST

A gusty cold front has brought gusty winds and showers to southern SA, western VIC and southern NSW.

Although this system isn't as big as the one that brought snow as far north as Guyra last week, it is still very strong. The anemometer spun up to 76 km/h at Mt Gambier at about 1pm this afternoon, the highest wind gust since last October. Gusts up to 130 km/h have been recorded at Thredbo Top Station, the highest in three months, prompting a severe weather warning for damaging winds in the Snowy Mountains and ACT for locations above 1800m.

Northerly winds have since eased in eastern VIC, with the severe weather warning for damaging winds cancelled in the North East, West and South Gippsland and East Gippsland. Earlier today, gusts of 85 km/h frequently battered the slopes around Bt Muller.

It's not just the coast and elevated locations in VIC that are feeling blustery - Moorabbin clocked up 80 km/h this morning whilst Tullamarine was just shy of 75 km/h.

This afternoon and evening, as winds shift southwesterly in southeastern SA and western and northern VIC, wind gusts should increase again for a few hours. However, by sunrise tomorrow, winds will be noticeably lighter throughout SA, VIC and NSW, with the strongest gusts limited to the alpine regions.

- Weatherzone

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