WEATHER UPDATE: Heavy rainfall and flooding through southeast Australia

METEOROLOGIST, SARAH FITTON: Hello from the Bureau with an update on the wild weather through the southeast and a shift in focus to eastern Australia and Tasmania this weekend.

In the last two days a low pressure system and influx of tropical moisture have produced heavy rainfall and flooding through parts

of Victoria. Rain has been heaviest in the northwest around Birchip, and east of Wangaratta into the Alpine regions. Flood Warnings are current for the Kiewa and Avoca River catchments.

A tight pressure gradient around the low delivered fresh and gusty winds through South Australia overnight and this morning, but conditions have now begun to ease.

The heaviest rainfall risk today has contracted to southern Victoria, Alpine regions and parts of eastern Victoria and New South Wales.

Buckets of moisture and lots of wind shear are prime ingredients for very dangerous storms through the east again today, with the potential

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