Heavy rain in north and east Tasmania on Sunday, damaging surf on Monday

03/06/2016

Heavy rain, strong northeast winds and damaging surf are expected for northern and eastern Tasmania on Sunday and Monday.

The Bureau of Meteorology's Regional Director Tasmania John Bally said rainfall totals in excess of 100mm are possible in the northeast and about the western tiers on Sunday.

"Falls in the range of 40 to 80 mm are likely for the remainder of the north and east, with further significant rainfall expected on Monday," Mr Bally said.

Accumulated rainfall of 200 mm is possible in parts of the northeast over the course of this event.

"The strong northeasterly airstream is likely to lead to damaging easterly wind gusts of 80 to 100 kilometres per hour through coastal areas in the north and east on Sunday and Monday," Mr Bally said.

Damaging surf conditions due to heavy northeast swells are expected about the east coast during Monday that may lead to significant coastal erosion.

The Bureau will issue detailed severe weather warnings and flood warnings from Saturday onwards as necessary and update these progressively during the event.

The latest warnings are available at: http://www.bom.gov.au/tas/warnings/

The Bureau’s website remains the most up-to-date and comprehensive official source of weather information. As conditions may change quickly, go to www.bom.gov.au or the Bureau’s mobile website at m.bom.gov.au for the latest weather information and warnings. On Twitter, follow @BOM_TAS for updates on this event.