Cold front causes severe weather warnings across multiple states

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has issued severe weather warnings for parts of Victoria, NSW, the ACT and Tasmania on Sunday morning, as the “vigorous westerly flow”, which began yesterday morning, moves down to Tasmania.

Broad areas of SA, VIC, NSW, ACT and Tasmania will see gusts in excess of 90km/h throughout Sunday, according to Weatherzone.

People in Illawarra, South Coast, Snowy Mountains, the ACT are being warned that damaging winds with peak gusts of 90 to 110 km/h are likely to continue over parts of the Snowy Mountains throughout Sunday.

Blizzard conditions are also forecast for areas above 1300 metres, with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service recommending backcountry travel be postponed until conditions improve.

The warnings comes after Nowra recorded wind gusts of up to 103 km/h yesterday.

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In Victoria, a severe weather warning is in place for parts of Central, East Gippsland, North Central, North East and West and South Gippsland

A separate severe warning for damaging surf is in place in the south west and west Gippsland districts.

Down in Tasmania, the BOM is warning that damaging winds averaging 60 to 70 km/h with peak gusts of around 100 km/h are possible over King Island and much of western, central and southern Tasmania.

Weatherzone has forecast that another weaker cold front will skim the southern parts of southeast Australia on Monday, maintaining some gusty winds and further alpine snow showers (another few centimetres), before conditions ease by Tuesday.