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Thunderstorms are sweeping across Australia’s east coast, threatening heavy rainfall, damaging wind gusts and large hailstones.
A large area has been in the firing line, including parts of Queensland, NSW and Victoria, with the severe weather forecast to continue throughout the weekend.
Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Angus Hines said severe thunderstorms were most likely to occur in parts of Queensland.
“This is not only where severe thunderstorms are most likely to occur today, but this is where we could see even more significant weather impacts in the form of giant hailstones, potentially five centimetres or greater, and destructive winds 120km/h or stronger,” Hines said.
“The region where we could see those really high-end impacts goes from western parts of Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast up into the hinterlands, across Toowoomba, into the Darling Downs then across the southern border ranges and into the north-western slopes of NSW.”
In NSW, the Bureau of Meteorology warns that severe thunderstorms are likely to produce damaging winds and large hailstones in parts of Sydney, the Hunter region and the South Coast.
Warnings are also current for the north west slopes and plains and parts of the Northern Rivers, Illawarra, central tablelands, southern tablelands, central west slopes and plains, Snowy Mountains, northern tablelands and upper western forecast districts.
