Storm conditions ease ahead of expected monthly high in the 30s

A severe weather warning is still in place for parts of SA but gusty winds and heavy showers are set to ease today. And by mid week, we should see temperatures in the 30s.

Wild winds and showers are set to ease throughout on Monday morning, before South Australia is treated to a short burst of sunshine.

As of 4.36am on Monday, a severe weather warning remains in place for the southern half of the state, including for metropolitan Adelaide, the Mount Lofty Ranges, Yorke Peninsula, Mid North, Kangaroo Island, Murraylands, Upper South East, Lower South East and parts of Flinders and Riverland districts.

Trees have been reported down in parts of the southern suburbs and the Hills overnight.

The Bureau of Meterology (BOM) alert says a vigorous west to southwesterly airstream will persist across central and southeastern parts of the state on Monday, leading to damaging winds averaging 50 to 70 km/h with peak gusts up to 100 km/h are likely about the coasts and ranges.

For the remainder of the warning area, squally conditions with damaging wind gusts up to 100 km/h are possible, especially with showers or isolated thunderstorms in the Lower South East district.

A fallen tower at Tailem Bend, caused by recent wild weather. Picture: Dean Martin

BOM senior forecaster Mark Anolak said the stormy conditions will begin to ease on Monday and through to Tuesday.

“Once we hit those northerly winds later in the week, we’ll drag some of that warmer air down, so a warm finish to the week,” he said.

Thursday should see a top of 26C and on Friday it’s expected to reach 31C in Adelaide.

However, the warmer conditions will be shortlived as Mr Anolak said another thundery change or two will move across the state heading into the weekend.

“That’s spring for you,” he said.

Adelaide will reach 17C on Monday, while Mount Gambier will shiver through at top of 13C.

Further north, Port Augusta is forecast to reach 21C, while Renmark will get to 18C.

Another stormfront that hit the state two days ago resulted in 12,000 properties losing power, with badly hit areas including Adelaide’s northeast suburbs and the Riverland.

Trees were felled amid high winds that continued into Sunday, but by the morning the number of properties with out power was down to 7000.

As of 6.00am on Monday there were 12 outages across the state affecting nearly 400 customers, including a cluster of outages near Berri and Wappilka.

As of Sunday, all but a few properties that had been without power since the freak storm on Saturday, November 12, have now had it restored, SA Power Networks says.

Spokesman Paul Roberts said it was down to just a few Adelaide Hills properties.

“We restored about 200 customers in the Adelaide Hills at 5.30pm (on Saturday) and a handful of customers have needed to be restored (on Sunday,” he said.

Very few were remaining.

There is a house in there, somewhere, after a tree fell on this house in Barmera. Picture: 7 NEWS

It comes as the the function of the state’s power interconnector with Victoria, which was cut when the same storm took down a tower near Tailem Bend, has been partially restored.

ElectraNet Chief Executive, Simon Emms said the power interconnection will be restored and back to functioning at full capacity by Tuesday.

“ElectraNet and its contractors have been working hard to restore power interconnection with Victoria following the damage to a transmission tower last [week] Saturday” Mr Emms said.

“Late Saturday 19th, we were able to restore power flow to Victoria, at a reduced rate, through one of the temporary interconnector circuits,” he said.

ElectraNet said the transmission is currently operating at one fifth - about 20 percent - of it’s full capacity within the line.

“It has a capacity of about 500 megawatts that we can transfer when everything is running property, but at the moment, we can only do 50 to 100” Mr Emms said.

“The temporary towers enable us to return to what it [capacity] was prior to the other one going down, but they’re slightly smaller structures,” he said.

“And once we get a bigger one, we’ll be able to replace it with the one that was damaged last weekend” he said.

The massive tree fell during Saturday’s storm – and more wild weather is on its way. Picture: 7 News.

On Saturday, a massive tree dumped itself on a house in Barmera, after a vicious storm swept through the Riverland.

The tree was uprooted by a wind gust, as widespread storms in parts of South Australia continue for another week.

The house was unoccupied when the tree collapsed and punctured through the roof, severely damaging half of the property.

Homeowner Andrew Wright told 7 NEWS Adelaide of how the ordeal quickly escalated.

“I was in the shed, when I heard the wind pick up and then suddenly to seems like a tornado went through the place,” Mr Wright said

“Next minute, I heard this cracking and banging, then looked over out my shed and saw this gum tree on my cottage,” he said.