Starting Thursday, April 4, 2024, rain and thunderstorms will increase across southeastern Queensland and northeastern NSW.
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00:00 Hello, Sarah from the Bureau with your weekly weather update, where I'll be touching on
00:04 the clearing cold front for southeastern Australia and the developing severe weather for New
00:09 South Wales and Queensland with the potential east coast low.
00:14 But we'll start off taking a look at the satellite imagery where we see this well-defined cold
00:19 front that brought the heavy rainfall and damaging winds to the southeast over the last
00:24 couple of days.
00:25 Now that is moving out into the Tasman Sea, dragging with it that severe weather with
00:30 a trough pushing up the east coast of New South Wales today, bringing showers and storms
00:35 to the eastern half and also pushing up into Queensland as well.
00:40 Now this high pressure system out here in the west extends a ridge into central and
00:44 western parts, bringing dry and sunny conditions.
00:47 And as we move into tomorrow, just keeping an eye on that trough out in the east, it
00:51 pushes up into Queensland, bringing showers and thunderstorms across central and southern
00:56 parts, with even the potential for heavy rainfall about southeastern parts of Queensland.
01:02 That high in the bike continuing to bring settled and clear conditions across the south
01:07 and central parts, apart from in the southeast with an onshore flow just bringing a few showers
01:12 there.
01:13 Now on Thursday, the weather with the showers and storms really ramp up over eastern parts
01:18 of the country due to an approaching upper level trough combining with a deep layer of
01:23 moist onshore flow.
01:25 Now we're forecasting showers and storms through central and southern Queensland and
01:29 through eastern parts of New South Wales as well, with widespread moderate to heavy rainfall
01:34 possible through the region.
01:37 Now it's on Friday however that coastal trough starts to deepen with the potential for an
01:42 east coast low to develop off the east coast of New South Wales.
01:47 And that may bring damaging winds, heavy rainfall and dangerous surf to much of the coastal
01:52 area.
01:53 And just noticing that we're still extending a ridge in through the central part, so remaining
01:57 to be pretty much fine and clear through there.
02:00 Now it's on Saturday that that coastal low starts to skirt southwards, dragging with
02:05 it the heavy rainfall and the damaging winds into the southern coast and Illawarra and
02:11 even potentially parts of far eastern Victoria as well.
02:16 Now temperature wise, it's fairly mild right across southern Australia, temperatures in
02:21 the low 20s in the wake of that cold front, much warmer as we go north, 29 degrees forecast
02:27 maximum for today.
02:29 And tomorrow, even cooler in the southeast, Hobart atop of just 15 degrees, 17 for Melbourne,
02:35 out in the west far warmer and 31 degrees for Perth.
02:39 As we move towards the end of the week though, really mild conditions dominate across eastern
02:44 Australia underneath that cloud band with all that rain keeping the temperatures down,
02:48 continuing into Friday as well.
02:51 So that's it for this week's weekly forecast.
02:54 Now with the school holidays being on, it's really important that if you live or you're
02:58 planning a holiday across eastern parts of the country, to stay up to date with the Bureau's
03:02 forecasts and warnings via the Bureau website, app and social media.
03:06 And if you are going on holidays, change your location on the Bureau app so that you receive
03:11 those push notifications for any warnings.
03:14 Bye for now.
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