27 December, 2016

Melbourne weather: steamy, stormy days ahead

A summer storm rolls across
the city on Christmas Eve.
The weather system that flooded central Australia, prompting Uluru to be evacuated, is about to bring heavy rain and damaging winds to Victoria.

A weaker version of the system will affect western Victoria early on Wednesday morning, delivering rainfall totals that could be as high as 50 millimetres in just six hours.

The rainfall is likely to start around midnight, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, with the heaviest falls expected between 3am and 9am Wednesday.

High rainfall is expected to move down from the north on Thursday and Friday, with possible flash flooding and thunderstorms.

The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning for much of Victoria late on Tuesday afternoon, urging people to be prepared for damaging winds and heavy rainfall in the Central weather district, Mallee, South West, North Central and Wimmera, and for parts of other forecast districts

Read Darren Gray’s story in the Melbourne Age - “Melbourne weather: steamy, stormy days ahead.”

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