Cool change expected to push through state late on Saturday, bringing intense rain and thunderstorms across the wider region into next week
St Kilda Beach in Melbourne on Friday. A cool change is expected to reach the city around 5pm on Saturday.St Kilda Beach in Melbourne on Friday. A cool change is expected to reach the city around 5pm on Saturday.However, the weather system driving the warm conditions is expected to bring a cool change by late on Saturday for much of Victoria, before it triggers intense rain and thunderstorms by the end of the weekend and into the middle of next week.
Christie Johnson, a senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, said the hot weather was being driven by a trough and a cold front which had already brought extreme heat overExtreme fire danger warnings were issued for the Mallee and Wimmera districts, with total fire bans in place, while there were high fire danger warnings for most of the rest of Victoria, and parts of southern NSW and eastern SA.
“Obviously it’s going to be pretty hot across pretty much all of Victoria and southern NSW, but it’s important to note the heatwave warnings are based on average temperatures, because it’s usually a bit cooler in these areas,” she said. “On the cold front itself there is a band of rain and thunderstorms, and that is over SA at the moment. We will expect to see that to push into western parts of Victoria.”
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