Wild weather predicted across Australia's south-east over next 48 hours

A thundery week across south-east Australia will culminate in a band of severe weather sweeping from South Australia to the east coast over 48 hours.The spell of wild weather will be caused by a powerful cold front slamming into a warm and humid northerly airstream — a clash which will generate a combination of rain, gales, dust storms and severe thunderstorms.The front already triggered severe storms over south-east Western Australia on Wednesday.It will sweep east through South Australia on Thursday, then reach Victoria and New South Wales Friday.In the meantime, a low-pressure system attached to the front will also bring widespread rain to Tasmania, with solid falls also drenching drought-ravaged parts of western Victoria and southern SA.Loading…Gusty winds prompt multiple warnings in SAWarnings were issued for SA on Thursday as the low slung the cold front from the western border near sunrise to the state’s east by about midnight.A warm northerly airstream ahead of the…