Australia -- Victoria Weather Update

MELBOURNE - Dec 20/12 - SNS -- The current forecast for the state of Victoria was released by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.

Weather Situation
A high pressure system located south of the Bight will cross Bass Strait on Friday to lie over the central Tasman Sea on Saturday. A low pressure trough will be over the Bight on Saturday but will enter western Victoria on Sunday before extending to eastern Victoria during Monday.
Forecast for the rest of ThursdayFine. Moderate to locally fresh southwesterly winds.Friday 21 DecemberFine. Mild and partly cloudy in the south, warm and mostly sunny in the north. Light to moderate southerly winds and freshening afternoon coastal seabreezes.Fire Danger -  Moderate to High.Saturday 22 DecemberFine. Warm to hot and mostly sunny inland with light winds tending northerly in the afternoon. Becoming milder near the coast with moderate to fresh afternoon seabreezes developing.Sunday 23 DecemberMostly fine and hot. Isolated showers and thunderstorms developing over the far northeast during the afternoon and evening. Isolated showers developing in the southwest later. A fresh gusty northerly wind ahead of a cooler west to southwesterly change in the west during the afternoon and evening.Monday 24 DecemberScattered showers and isolated thunderstorms in the east. Isolated showers in the southwest. Mostly fine over the northwest with just the chance of isolated showers. Warm to hot in the north and east at first with a moderate to fresh northerly wind but a cooler southwesterly change slowly extending throughout.The next routine forecast will be issued at 5:00 am EDT Friday.Product IDV10310
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