Ben Domensino, 08 Dec 2016, 5:00 AM UTC
Eastern storms and southern shivers
Thunderstorms are on the move through New South Wales and southern Queensland once again today, while southern states shiver.
A thundery change swept across South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania this morning, triggering heavy showers and gale force winds.
Wind gusts of 70-80km/h were recorded around central and southern parts of South Australia, while up to 30mm of rain was recorded on the Mount Lofty Ranges. Mount Crawford saw its heaviest fall in close to a month with 22mm, while Adelaide collected 8mm in four hours.
While the heaviest rain was before sunrise, it's been a cold and showery day in Adelaide. The apparent temperature has been 12-15 degrees all day due to cold and gusty southwesterly winds behind the front.
Damaging winds were recorded in Victoria's South West, Central and North East districts today. Gusts had reached 91km/h at Avalon Airport, 104km/h at Mount William and 124km/h at Mount Buller prior to 3pm local time.
Widespread rainfall totals of 10-30mm were recorded on and south of the ranges in Victoria, including 45mm at Blue Mountain and close to 40mm at Mount Macedon.
The showers and a blustery westerly change dropped the temperature by about 10 degrees in Melbourne this morning. The city was still 26 degrees at 6am and had plunged to 15 degrees before midday.
A severe weather warning remains in place this afternoon for damaging winds in parts of southern and eastern Victoria, mainly about the coasts and ranges.
Tasmania is also being buffeted by gusts over 100km/h as a low spins by to the state's west. A severe weather warning is in place this afternoon for the state's east and southeast, including Hobart.
The heaviest rain has so far fallen in northern Tasmania, where Mount Victoria registered more than 80mm in under six hours.
The low will continue to driver showers and potentially damaging winds into parts of the southeast into this evening, before conditions ease on Friday.
The front is now tracking north through New South Wales and southern Queensland, where it is causing thunderstorms to explode in a number of districts.
A large line of storms has developed along the front itself through western New South Wales and southwest Queensland, moving in an easterly direction. Ahead of the front, a hot and unstable air mass is fuelling more erratic storm development over southern inland Queensland and northeast New South Wales.
Severe thunderstorm warnings have been issued for damaging winds and large hail. Wind gusts above 80km/h were clocked at Tamworth and Gunnedah during storms today.
Today's thundery outbreak is likely to linger well into the evening over parts of New South Wales and Queensland, as the front slowly pushes east. The latest thunderstorm warnings can be found at: http://www.weatherzone.com.au/warnings.jsp
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