Another cloud band is impacting large parts of the country, bringing areas of rain, showers and thunderstorms, with the risk of some of those thunderstorms being severe.

My name is Sarah, and I'll be taking you through what we expect today and what's on the forecast over the coming days.

So thunderstorms are possible across a really broad area of eastern and central Australia, but just focusing on where severe thunderstorms are possible within this yellow area, they are possible throughout central parts to bring heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding, large hail or damaging winds.

However, thunderstorms today that may form through the east, our main concern is damaging wind.

In fact, damaging winds in excess of 90 km/h are possible about the New South Wales and Victorian alpine areas today, regardless of thunderstorm development.

Now, community impacts with these severe thunderstorms include the potential for heavy rainfall that could lead to flash flooding through central Australia.

There's also a risk of damage to property, with the damaging winds and large hail bringing down trees and power lines, causing power outages and creating hazardous driving conditions.

So please take care on the roads. Now, as we move into tomorrow, there's another area of severe thunderstorms possible throughout central parts of the country.

However, in the east, the trough that's driving the instability shifts further northwards, with severe thunderstorms possible throughout the north coast of New South Wales and spilling over into the south-east coast of Queensland within this area.

Damaging winds, large hail or heavy rainfall that could lead to flash flooding are all possible.

However, as we move into Wednesday, thunderstorms continue to be a risk right across eastern Australia. However, they are less likely to be severe.

Severe thunderstorms continue to be possible throughout central parts of the country. So let's have a look at how this plays out from today.

We've had this cold front that's crossed Victoria today, bringing those thunderstorms to Melbourne earlier this morning.

And now this afternoon, we're expecting a very gusty southerly change to race up the New South Wales coast, bringing some relief to those high temperatures.

Now, as this trough moves further northwards, it will drag with it the convection. So moving into tomorrow, that southerly change will push into the Mid North Coast.

And with it, as the winds turn more onshore, there is the potential for widespread moderate rainfall through the Hunter and Mid North Coast, with 10 to 40 mm possible.

But as well, those storm areas start to spill over into the south-east parts of Queensland.

Wednesday, that trough will push into the south-east parts of Queensland, bringing that gusty southerly change, and afternoon convection will shift into the Wide Bay–Burnett and Capricornia and central parts of Queensland.

So how much rainfall are we talking?

So here we're looking at the accumulated or total rainfall between now and Wednesday evening.

We can see that it's very patchy, which is very typical with hit-and-miss thunderstorm development.

But there is the potential for between 25 and up to 50 mm of rainfall throughout central parts, but as well throughout that northern half of the New South Wales ranges and the exposed coast of south-east Queensland.

So if you live across central or eastern parts of the country, now's a really good time to stay up to date with our latest forecast in the mornings via the Bureau website, app and social media.

And as always, listen to the advice from your local emergency services. Bye for now.