The next 36 hours will serve up a smorgasbord of extreme weather across south-east Australia, from record October heat to dangerous thunderstorms and gale force winds.

The majority of severe weather will result from the passage of a powerful front, however for South Australia and Victoria on Wednesday, a deepening offshore low has the potential to generate winds equal in strength to a category 2 tropical cyclone.

In the meantime, out-of-control bushfires are possible in NSW, as wild winds combine with dry lightning and temperatures up to 16 degrees Celsius above average. Loading...

Wind gusts in Victoria, thunderstorms in SA

A small low pressure system and weak front are currently forming near the west coast of SA, and while the two systems are currently benign, they will rapidly st

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