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Damaging winds exceeding 100km/h are forecast to hit Melbourne and authorities are warning the wild weather could damage homes across the city as trees and power lines are brought down.

Light rain fell over the city on Wednesday morning, but wind speeds were expected to ramp up by lunchtime, according to the weather bureau’s Dean Narramore.

A severe weather warning for damaging winds is in place across most of the state, and Narramore said suburbs bordering Port Phillip Bay would be the hardest hit in Melbourne.

“Once we get into the afternoon and evening, wind gusts of 90 to 100 and even to 110 km/h are possible, mostly by the coast … or in the hills up towards the Dandenong [Ranges],” he said.

Melbourne’s north-eastern suburbs

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