I told you all that it was windy here....
The next 36 hours will serve up a smorgasbord of extreme weather across south-east Australia, from record October heat to dangerous thunderstorms and gale force winds.
The majority of severe weather will result from the passage of a powerful front, however for South Australia and Victoria on Wednesday, a deepening offshore low has the potential to generate winds equal in strength to a category 2 tropical cyclone.
In the meantime, out-of-control bushfires are possible in NSW, as wild winds combine with dry lightning and temperatures up to 16 degrees Celsius above average.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-21/winds-wild-storms-record-heat-for-south-east-australia-weather/105912462
Spring weather in SE Oz can be pretty rugged but a number of larger systems are combining to make 2025 especially rough - Indian ocean dipole, Southern Annular Mode - these are the main patterns that affect the circular current at the bottom of the planet. Personally I'm exhausted from battling winds for weeks now; it really tires you out.
Seas are rough and swells are big. I'm still having my daily dip in Bass Strait when it's safe enough, which is not every day. The weather bureau has not called a La Nina yet and is starting to trend towards an El Nino next year.
Bad luck for us, good news for west coast USA.
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At that on satellite and I thought about you immediately and wondered how you are doing! Sounds as bad as it looks.
Co-ordinates of my town: -38.613 145.592
You can see where we are on Google maps or earth. The wind funnels down Bass Strait from the west and hits our area with full force.
I think the main danger is roofs flying off and trees coming down. Luckily, if I stay close to home not a lot of risk for that. I mean - you wouldn't go for a stroll under gum trees in this weather. 
How are you doing heading into winter? I hope there are not too many magats around you now.
But they don't know who I am so I have some advantage there. I went to march in a tiny town where I spent most of the summer, felt kind of safer knowing I won't be going there much now that I have a place of my own in a town nearly 20 miles away. I plan to keep to myself more until I feel the need to go out and meet people. Glad winter is coming.
I don't feel the kind of stress I had in my prior location so there's that. I can make a new start here, at my age it may sound crazy but I had little choice for my psychological health. I met three other newcomers to the state on Saturday, people are bailing out of red states.
Just glad to have room for my art projects and just room to move around. I have enough space where I can set up a project and not have to put it away so I can cook or do anything else, I almost forgot what it was like to have more than a two room cottage/cabin. All my stuff fits in here and it's not crowded. And with new carpet and new stove, I'm going to be a happy camper this winter.
Thanks for asking.
