Southeast Australia to brave strong cold front, severe weather warnings issued

Southeast Australia is gearing up for another severe cold front moving in from the south direction. In wake of these, the local authorities have issued severe weather warnings for places such as South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) region.

As the weather system bears down, it is likely to bring high velocity damaging winds along with torrential rains and snow.

The system moved across Western Australia on Monday, giving rare snow over the Stirling Ranges. In Perth, it was the coldest August day in span of six years.

Strong winds may reach 50 to 60km/h with gusts of around 90 to 100km/h over western and central parts of South Australia this morning, extending to the South East Tuesday afternoon.

As per the Bureau of Meteorology, places like Port Lincoln, Cleve, Kingscote, Victor Harbor, Mount Barker, Murray Bridge and Mount Gambier will have major impact.

Further east in Victoria, squally winds are likely to impact the Central, South West, North Central and parts of the East Gippsland, North East, West and South Gippsland. According to weathermen, elevated areas are most at risk.

Melbourne is also expected rainy conditions with high velocity winds. According to weathermen, northwest winds are likely to strengthen further by Tuesday evening ahead of the cold front expected to move through parts of the South West Slopes, Snowy Mountains and Australian Capital Territory by the Wednesday afternoon.

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