A strong low pressure system and associated cold front are funnelling wild winds across southeastern Australia this Tuesday, with severe weather warnings for potentially damaging winds issued for parts of Victoria, South Australia, and New South Wales and the ACT.

Meanwhile in Western Australia, an approaching cold front will also cause strong winds along the coastline in the state’s far southwest, as wintry systems lash both ends of southern Australia.

But by far the most dynamic weather event affecting Australia this Tuesday is the deep complex low pressure system which is centred over the eastern part of the Great Australian Bight and slowly tracking further east.

This system has already generated extremely strong winds in some locations, including an overnight gust of 133 km/h at Thredbo Top Station (Australia’s highest weather station at 1965 m above sea level).

Where will winds be strongest on Tuesday?

Coastal and elevated parts of southeastern Australia can expect the strongest winds on Tuesday.

In South Australia, the West Coast can expected damaging wind gusts up to 90 km/h, while the Flinders Ranges and Mount Lofty Ranges can expect gusts of 100 km/h.

In Victoria, the alpine region can expect gusts approaching 100 km/h in strength.

In New South Wales, damaging wind gusts can be expected along much of the Great Dividing Range all the way up to the Northern Tablelands, with further gusts exceeding 100 km/h likely in the Snowy Mountains.

Please check updates on the Weatherzone warnings page.

Widespread shower activity to continue

Widespread showers are soaking the southeast this Tuesday, from Ceduna in SA’s West Coast forecast district, right across Victoria, northern Tasmania, and central and southern NSW all the way to Sydney.

The ongoing showers follow some very handy falls recorded in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday, including:

Five locations in Victoria’s Northern Country and North East forecast districts topped 50mm, with a high reading of 65.4mm at Charnwood, a rural locality near the small town of Strathbogie.

The Adelaide Hills saw the heaviest rainfall totals in SA, with a very useful 52.6mm at Warren Reservoir, one of Adelaide’s water supply dams.

Mt Gambier in far southeastern SA had its heaviest daily rainfall in more than two years with 29.6mm.

At least three locations in the western foothills of the Snowy Mountains in southern NSW topped 25mm.

One part of the country where today’s rain will not be welcomed by many locals is the snowfields. As discussed in our story on Monday, a period of warming was always on the cards between last weekend’s light dusting and the heavier snowfalls predicted for this Wednesday and Thursday.

For example, Thredbo Top Station was -2.6°C at 10 am on Monday, while it was 1°C with drizzle at 10 am on Tuesday. It’s always a fine line between snow and rain in Australia, and we’re on the wrong side of the line for snow this Tuesday. Another 24 hours or so, and that will begin to change.

For the latest snow forecasts, snow cam images and more, please check the Weatherzone snow page, which is updated every day during the 2026 winter.