Storm ravages Ceduna on SA’s West Coast as wild weather sweeps all the way to Adelaide
South Australia’s west has been absolutely battered by the savage weather sweeping across the state.
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Ceduna has been smashed by wild winds and high tides as a vigorous cold front hit South Australia hard on Wednesday.
The cold front was working its way across the state with the Bureau of Meteorology warning of thunderstorms, heavy rain, wild winds, fog and the potential for hail.
Lifelong Ceduna local Andrew Brooks told The Advertiser wild winds and high tides had flooded the town’s main coastal precinct.
“The foreshore, it’s the worst I’ve seen … the combination of the gale force westerly winds with the 2.2 metre tide.”
“The local council have closed the town jetty, and our local swimming beach, Alexander’s Beach, shelter sheds are getting flooded … there’s storm damage and all the rest.”
He said trees were down and the wind was strong enough to knock him over.
“It blew me off my feet, I actually fell in the bushes … I don’t know the actual wind strength, but I’m calling it gale force, for about an hour,” he said.
“We haven’t had much rain, the forecast was 90 per cent chance of 10mm but we haven’t had anywhere near that rainfall, but just the severe wind and the high tides just really smashing the coastline.”
It comes as the District Council of Ceduna informed locals Denial Bay Road was closed until further notice, advising residents to stay safe in the weather conditions.
Mr Brooks said it was the second time he had ever seen the water lap over Denial Bay road, the first time only a month ago when strong winds lashed SA.
“Everyone must have just stopped working and are driving around taking photos,” he said.
“It’s crazy and now it’s heading (Adelaide’s) way.”
The BOM tipped peak gusts of up to 100 km/h over coastal parts of SA on Wednesday morning.
Wind gusts of up to 90km/h may extend further inland by midmorning and gusts of around 90/km/h are likely to develop over the Mount Lofty Ranges after sunrise and extend north over the Flinders Ranges during the afternoon.
Originally published as Storm ravages Ceduna on SA’s West Coast as wild weather sweeps all the way to Adelaide
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