7News First at 4PM Melbourne - Weather and Closer, Wednesday August 28th 2024

okay Billy JB thank you let's get an update now on the afternoon Peak good afternoon it's Ian from the Lexus of Brighton traffic center and the speed limits of both the Westgate and baly bridges have been reduced to 60k an hour due to high winds and for the westg bridge we're seeing delays outbound due to a breakdown on the bridge in the emergency Lane looking to the Eastern Freeway and there are heavy outbound delays due to an earlier crash at Elga Road be no one else in the Lexus RX Hybrid available now at Lexus of Brighton Limited stock book your test drive with Lexus of Brighton today lmct 9879 have a good night well very busy meteorologist Jane bar is back and Jane the winds finally ease soon Mike not long now we'll go from winds gusting 100K an hour to less than 30 good for the cleanup that you may find when you get home the city reached 18.6 scoy showers are passing through when they hit the wind is ferocious now these are dropping temperatures in the city now it's just 11° fre the airport is 10 it feels like minus 4 showers and damaging winds are mainly over Southern Victoria there are thunderstorms but only right on the coast or offshore the biggest Gust in the west is jelly brand 133 K an hour in the East the prom has just hit 154 and just offshore Hogan Island now up to 161 that's just shy of at Category 3 tropical Cyclone not one but two cold fronts acrossing Victoria the last one is starting to move away but we're left in this vigorous Westerly air flow up next high pressure that'll bring us a break but the next cold front races across the bite with us in its sights so thanks to the high the wind will ease we'll have a lengthy lull tonight and during the day tomorrow the wind strengthens back to ferocious once again tomorrow night into Friday then there are further fronts over the weekend around the nation there is heat to our North Brisbane up and over 30 each day through to next Monday 23 in Sydney tomorrow up to 30 on Friday to Victoria Showers linger near the west coast and along the ranges easing in the afternoon these ones here are not squally anymore the wind does then rapidly increase from the West again later as a fresh burst of showers tending to steady rain arrives in the southwest corner at night so in Melbourne Thursday is our break it is generally dry out there there's just a slight risk of a brief shower we should head down to 10 tonight and 17 for tomorrow the wind winds are light to moderate during the day nothing to worry about during the day but then damaging wind gusts do return later at night so more severe weather from tomorrow evening Mike okay been busy thanks Jane looking ahead now to our next bulletin at six two teenagers charged accused of using a machete in an armed robbery in Melbourne's East are you one of the Aussie workers being short changed on their superannuation meet the golfing couple who scored holes in one one after the other and we test bullies new high-tech trolley see how they work those stories and more are coming up in just over an hour for now from the 7 News team thank you for joining [Music] us the seven news app will give you the news you want every minute of every day including breaking news alerts download the seven news app now