Flooding anticipated as Victoria braces for ‘excessive climate occasion’

Hundreds of thousands throughout Victoria are bracing for mammoth downpours anticipated to smash the state on Sunday and proceed into Monday.

Emergency providers say the “excessive climate occasion” will sweep throughout all of Victoria and warned flash flooding and thunderstorms had been extremely doubtless.

“We’re planning right here … for what is feasible, we’re planning for in extra of 200mm of rain,” Emergency Administration Commissioner Rick Nugent stated.

“The intense climate occasion will start within the north-west and the south-west earlier than shifting throughout by central, north-central and into the east of the state.”

Victorians have been urged to arrange, significantly these dwelling in flood-prone areas.

There’s a important risk to folks in caravan parks or tenting alongside creeks or different waterways.

“It is extremely doubtless that there can be flash floods in flood-prone areas,” he stated.

“For those who’re dwelling in a flood-prone space, please make the required plans.”

He added a plea for drivers to keep away from floodwaters: “You driving a automobile, not a ship,” he stated.

A spokesman from the Bureau of the Meteorology stated: “We’ll see widespread rain and thunderstorm exercise creating over western components of the state all through the Sunday morning after which by the remainder of the day.”

The Bureau additionally issued a flood watch warning for many of central and northern Victoria.