Residents across five states and territories have been told to rug up and brace for a series of cold fronts set to slam southern and southern Australia.
Severe weather warnings have been issued for NSW, the ACT, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia, with damaging wind gusts likely to affect parts of these four states and territories today and tomorrow.
In addition to the wind, some areas will also see heavy rain, thunderstorms, hail and snow.
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Extreme cold front to blast south east Australia with severe weather warnings in several states.(Weatherzone)
While cold, wet and windy weather is typical over the southern half of Australia in winter, this will be one of the strongest weather systems of the season in terms of how widespread its impacts are.
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