<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>328121</docID> <postdate>2024-09-02 08:20:30</postdate> <headline>Canberra braces for severe weather and wild winds</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-328122" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240213001902016300-original-resized.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="600" /></p> <caption>NSW is bracing for a windy start to the week as wild weather lashes southeast Australia. (Melanie Russell/AAP PHOTOS)</caption> <p><strong>A severe weather warning for damaging winds has been issued from the Victorian border north to Newcastle and inland to the Snowy Mountains and the ACT.</strong></p> <p>Wind gusts up to 120 km/h are possible until Monday afternoon.</p> <p>"Winds of these strengths do have the potential to bring down both trees and branches that may cause property damage, also bring down power lines that could lead to power outages, and also loose objects may be blown around and cause further damage," Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Sarah Scully said.</p> <p>Deadly destructive winds continue to batter Australia's southeast, with a woman killed in a tree fall and NSW residents warned the worst is to come.</p> <p>The 63-year-old died when a tree struck a cabin at a holiday park in Moama, on the NSW-Victorian border on Sunday night.</p> <p>Tens of thousands of Victorian homes are without power following a night of pulsing winds and abnormally high tides.</p> <p>Emergency services have warned against unnecessary travel after winds lashed the state, reaching 146km/h at Wilsons Promontory National Park, 133km/h at Mount Jellibrand and 131km/h at Falls Creek.</p> <p>Gusts above 100km/h were also recorded in suburbs across Melbourne.</p> <p>Ausnet said the wild weather caused significant outages overnight, with approximately 112,000 people without power on Monday morning.</p> <p>The impacts are across the network but the towns of Moe and Warragul are without power.</p> <p>Significant delays are also expected across Victoria's public transport system with debris affecting numerous train and tram lines.</p> <p>Senior meteorologist Christie Johnson said wild weather had already hit NSW but the strongest winds were still to come.</p> <p>"The strongest winds for NSW are expected this morning with the potential for damaging wind stretching up from the Victorian border up to the Hunter district, including the south coast, Illawarra, the Sydney Metro and adjacent ranges," Ms Johnson said on Monday.</p> <p>NSW Police said a report would be prepared for the coroner after the death at Moama.</p> <p>The woman's body was found in the wreckage and a man, also aged 63, was taken to hospital with minor injuries.</p> <p>Wind gusts up to 120 km/h are possible until Monday afternoon.</p> <p>Tasmania was battered by severe weather at the weekend, with significant damage to trees, properties, power lines and infrastructure.</p> <p>Sunday was no different, with Tasmania SES called to 347 requests for assistance.</p> <p>Peak wind gusts overnight reached 157km at King Island Airport and 130km at Launceston Airport.</p> <p>A flood emergency warning was issued for residents near the Derwent River, Meadowbank to Macquarie Plains and Styx River, Bushy Park to Macquarie Plains and surrounds.</p> <p>The River Derwent below Meadowbank Dam was likely to exceed the major flood level of 7.3 metres early on Monday.</p> <p>People in southeast Tasmanian towns on the Derwent - including Meadowbank, Glenora, Bushy Park, Gretna and Macquarie Plains - were urged to enact flood emergency plans and prepare their properties.</p> <p>Provider TasNetworks said there were more than 150 outages late on Sunday with about 10,000 customers without power.</p> <p>https://citynews.com.au/2024/frightening-undercurrent-to-the-weird-weather/</p> </body>