Melbourne weather: Planes, trains hit as winds batter state

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A big blast of wild weather has swept through Victoria, with strong winds toppling trees beside train lines, damaging roofs, delaying air travellers and sending at least three people overboard into choppy, chilly waters.

Two men were found clinging to their overturned boat in Corio Bay on Sunday afternoon as wind gusts topped 100km/h, police said.

A third man had been in a kayak that capsized and was blown more than 20 kilometres south along Melbourne's bayside suburbs, where water temperatures had plunged to about 13 degrees.

"That's a long way to have been blown across the water," Victoria Police said. "He's currently being treated for hypothermia."

Read the Melbourne Age story - “Melbourne weather: Planes, trains hit as winds batter state.”