Meteorologist explains the "cyclone bomb" coming!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tony, Hello, good morning. How are you a little bit
cool this morning? But not so bad as yesterday with
that wind?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah yeah, thank god that's gone now. Jesus. We've had
a sort of it was almost a bit of deja
vous for a lot of us seeing what is happening
to the coast down south, because it was something that
not too long ago we were sort of facing. Tell
us what's going on.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Well, basically we've had this big east coast low come
through and it's all LinkedIn with that rain that we
had a few days ago. Sky is cleared earlier in
the week as that whole system went south. New South
Wales has been batted by everything, some huge waves down there.
We've actually seen peak waves up to twelve or thirteen
meters off Bakeman's Bay, which is pretty impressive. We've had
the sunshine and those cold, icy Westley winds and sort

(00:48):
of slated it yesterday. Those peak gusts up to seventy
to eighty ks an hour, so it's a bit more
than those usual westlies, and we've seen trees down and
a little bit of minor damage over much of the
southeast and right across the coast as well.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, It was hectic yesterday driving around. The winds were huge.
There was debris all over the roads. Again, I gave
Alfred vibes for.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Sure, I really did.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I can sort of walk with a friend because I
was like it was. The rims were so strong it
was almost impossible to walk.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
So if you wear a baggy shirt, it's like wind
sailings exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I would have ended up in year. Some of those
inland areas have probably got stronger gusts than we had
with Alfred. So it was very much coastally locked with
our cyclone. But when they whip across the ranges like that,
the westerlies can get in everywhere. So you get these
periods of calm and they think, oh, it's not a
bad day, and then bang, you get hit by an
eighty k and our gust out of nowhere and things
go flying. So in many places it probably would have

(01:39):
been worse wind than with Alfred earlier in the year.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Okay, well that's interesting because they're still around my area.
I have a kind of a leafy tree area and
there's big branches that were broken but didn't fall all
the way down, but they're resting, you know, and they're dead,
like the leaves are dead, and I drive and look
at them and think they're going to four one day.
They need, you know, full cranes to get them. Was
actually concerned that if people went for walks or even

(02:03):
just driving, those tree boughs would fall down.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
We don't make ers, yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
And I've been the same. We've had a whole bunch
of those trees up with our Channel seven studios at
Mount Cooth and I saw the arborists out yesterday chopping
things down in the wind. I thought, oh, you're probably
better off waiting to look fin dies. But they're out
there trying to do their best to keep up. So
there's a lot of that around and probably will be,
especially after yesterday too.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Mate. A lot of people have got relatives down south
that like people on the Gold Coast, they've got relatives
down south. So there's a lot of evacuations from people
on the beach in different places. Is it all done
now or is it going to continue?

Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's not completely done, but it is easy. So the
worst of the rain should be behind us. And the
fact that the heaviest falls fell right on the coast
means that we haven't seen too much Riverine flooding, so
it's more of that flash flooding it that goes down
pretty quickly when the rain stops. The beaches have obviously
been smashed and were expecting another day of huge swells
down south. It'll start to ease back on the New
South Wales coast tomorrow and we'll start to see a

(03:02):
little bit of south swell filter through of the Gold Coast.
So kids on holidays, if you've got surfboards, there'll still
be a few waves around with those Westerley winds. You
might see me in the lineup with my tay off tomorrow,
so hopefully save me a couple of waves as well.
And look the winds starting to eat back as well.
We've seen this. This low is what we call complex.
It's got a whole bunch of little centers swirling around

(03:23):
each other. Perhaps another little burst this morning which will
give us probably win us a bit over fifty k's
now for parts of the coast today, and then that
should finally ease off significantly tomorrow as well and much
calmer conditions. But these cold nights will hang around.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
All right on your thank you, yeah, if I saw
you in the surf, I go hey, what's it going
to be like tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (03:44):
And don't worry.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
I get that everywhere I go, good on your time,