Thousands of households are without power after wild wind gusts of up to 178km/h brought down numerous trees and powerlines across Tasmania overnight.
TasNetworks spokesperson Danielle Duffin said it was hard to say how many customers have been affected, but estimated ‘around 7000 or 8000’ are without power this morning.
“Most of the outages are affecting the south of the state,” Duffin said.
“In the North West, we’ve got another outage there affecting about 1000 customers and that’s around Penguin, Sulphur, Creek, Wivenhoe area.”
She said all of the outages have been caused by the weather and crews are currently patrolling the lines to find where the outages are.
“Generally, that means there’s trees on lines or there might be wires down and things like that.”
“Crews have been very busy and they continue to work to hopefully have the power restored sooner rather than later.”
In the south, about 1700 customers in the Eagle Hawk Neck, Port Arthur area are affected, as well as Sandy Bay, Taroona, Geeveston and Strathblane.
Since midnight on Sunday, the Bureau of Meteorology have recorded extreme gusts across the state.
- Maatsuyker Island: 178km/hr at 3:55am
- Scotts Peak: 152km/hr at 3:10am
- Low Rocky Point: 146km/hr at 2:33am
- Strahan Airport: 143km/hr at 3:10am
- Mount Read: 139km/hr at 3:12am
- Cape Sorell: 135km/hr at 2:44am
- Hartz Mountains: 128km/hr at 4:30am
- kunanyi/Mt Wellington: 122km/hr at 2:20am
