A potent cold front will cross southeast Australia on Friday and Saturday with strong winds accompanied by gusty showers and thunderstorms.
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Low pressure will organize across the Bight on Thursday and then begin to affect the southern SA coast with gusty thundershowers on Friday.
The strong winds and thundershower risk will arrive in Adelaide Friday afternoon and in western VIC Friday night. Melbourne’s risk for strong winds and thundershowers will occur during the day on Saturday.
As the cold front moves across southeast Australia, winds are expected to gust between 60-100 kph for many areas, including the Melbourne metro area. Across the Bass Strait and VIC Alps, wind gusts will approach 120 kph at times.
Gusty showers will linger across VIC and TAS on Sunday, however, the most potent part of the storm will have exited to the east.