“We are looking at the showers and storms again redeveloping over inland parts, in particular, throughout Tuesday. We could see heavy rain, large hail and damaging winds,” he said.
Bushfire warnings in Victoria’s west remained largely unchanged on Tuesday morning.
In the Grampians, a blaze on the western Victoria Range has caused an emergency warning for Mirranatwa, a small farming hamlet nestled between two ridges at the southern end of the national park.
That alert was updated just after 7am on Tuesday, but kept the same “leave immediately message” as it had on Monday. It said: “The spread of the fire has been slowed, crews continue to work on building containment lines and suppressing fire activity.”
Near the South Australian border, the Little Desert fire remained under a watch-and-act alert on Tuesday morning. The towns of Goroke, Kaniva, Lawloit, Miram South, Peronne are in the warning zone.
“There will be a wind change late during the morning which may push the fire in a north-northeasterly direction, increasing the fire risk,” said the updated alert issued at 7.06am.
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