The wind and rain dampening Melbourne’s mood on Tuesday won’t be going anywhere soon, weather forecasters say.
Melbourne was lashed with gusts of up to 54km/h overnight and on Tuesday morning, while parts of the city received significant rainfall.
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Terry Ryan said Springvale, in Melbourne’s south-east, was the city’s wettest area, receiving 14 millimetres of rain in the 24 hours to 9am.
“Rainfall-wise, Melbourne [Olympic] Park had 0.6 of a millimetre to 9 o’clock and 1 millimetre since then,” Mr Ryan said.
“Further showers are coming towards us, but with only light falls in the city, and we’re expecting 2 to 5 millimetres today.”
“Melbourne had gusts to 50km/h at 12.30am and Melbourne Airport had a gust of 54km/h at 12.12am.”
Mr Ryan said a severe weather warning had been issued across the state, with damaging winds of about 60km/h and gusts of up to 100km/h expected.
The State Emergency Service received 57 calls for help across the state on Tuesday morning, with 40 of those coming from the greater Melbourne area.
An SES spokesman said most calls were for fallen trees, with some minor property damage.
He said Melburnians should expect a similar weather pattern of wind and rain until early next week.
“There’s still going to be showers around, and wind. We’re going to have fronts coming through every day and a half, so quite a wintry-looking weather pattern,” Mr Ryan said.
“It’ll just be a shower or two every day, but with breaks of fine weather every day.”
Temperature highs of between 16 and 18 degrees are expected until Monday, with lows of between 8 and 12 degrees.
Melbourne is headed for a top of 18 degrees on Tuesday.
This story first appeared in The Age
