Boxing Day weather live updates: Melbourne airport flight delays with lightning ‘within 5km’; more Queensland and NSW storms forecast | Australia weather

In higher information nonetheless, the extreme thunderstorm warning for some areas of Melbourne has been cancelled:

The BoM is warning that enormous hailstones are more likely to fall in Gosford this afternoon:

Moist’n’Wild and Film World theme parks to reopen tomorrow on Gold Coast

The Moist’n’Wild and Film World Gold Coast theme parks will each reopen as regular tomorrow, after they had been closed immediately as a consequence of extreme storm harm.

An announcement from Village Roadshow Theme Parks stated:

Thanks in your persistence and understanding as we handled the aftermath of the extreme storm. We look ahead to welcoming you again.

Paradise Nation and Topgolf will each stay closed because of the ongoing clear up efforts. Paradise Nation will reopen on 30 December:

All of the animals are protected and our group will proceed to look after them in the course of the closure.

In the meantime, Topgolf will probably be closed “till additional discover”.

Thunderstorm halts Boxing Day Check play at MCG

The thunderstorm in Melbourne has stopped play halfway by means of day one of many Boxing Day Check between Australia and Pakistan on the Melbourne Cricket Floor.

As James Wallace reported, the gamers scattered from the sector as boos bounced across the MCG.

You possibly can observe all of the updates dwell on our separate weblog:

Simply checking in with the variety of south-east Queenslanders with out energy: in keeping with Energex, 118,304 clients are with out energy.

That is has gone down from the greater than 126,000 who had been with out energy at about 10.45am native time immediately.

Delays at Melbourne airport anticipated for remainder of the day as a consequence of climate

Extreme thunderstorm detected close to Melbourne airport

Right here is the newest from the bureau on the extreme climate warning overlaying Melbourne and surrounds:

At 2.20pm extreme thunderstorms – more likely to produce damaging winds and heavy rainfall, which might result in flash flooding – had been detected close to Melbourne Airport, Tullamarine and the world west of Sunbury.

They’re forecast to have an effect on Melton, St Albans and Sydenham by 2.50pm and Mt Cottrell, Rockbank and the world south of Bacchus Marsh by 3.20pm.

Now we have contacted Melbourne airport to substantiate if there are any related flight delays or impacts.

‘Very harmful thunderstorm’ headed for NSW Central Coast

The Bureau of Meteorology is warning {that a} “very harmful thunderstorm” bringing large hailstones and damaging winds, and which can result in flash flooding, was detected close to Freemans Waterhole and Awaba, NSW at 2.05pm.

The thunderstorm is shifting south and is forecast to have an effect on Toukley, Wyong and Tuggerah by 2.35pm and Gosford, Woy Woy and Terrigal by 3.05 pm.