BoM says most severe impacts expected on Sunday and Monday, with warnings of flash flooding in Tasmania
The Bureau of Meteorology was carefully monitoring the system on Saturday, which was expected to move from the NSW coast towardsThe most severe impacts were expected to arrive late on Sunday, as the system tracks towards Tasmania with strong winds and a risk of flash flooding and rising rivers.The system was already generating dangerous surf and swell conditions along the NSW coast on Saturday.
Miriam Bradbury, a senior meteorologist at the bureau, said the increasing winds were “dragging cold air off the Southern Ocean and Antarctica and this is giving this cold air momentum”. Forecast maximum temperatures on Sunday and Monday for Melbourne, Hobart and Canberra were at or below 13C. Canberra was set for -1C overnight on Sunday and Monday.
Snowfalls were possible in the NSW central and northern tablelands as the coldest air moved there on Monday and Tuesday.
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