Tasmania’s wild weather is set to ease after days of heavy rain lashed the state from north to south, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
Meteorologist Belinda House said the rain that soaked Hobart on Wednesday night was already easing back to showers on Thursday morning, with the last of the heavier falls pushing up the east coast.
“By evening it really will be on a settling trend,” she told Pulse.
The heaviest rain in the 24 hours to 9am Thursday was recorded at the Hartz Mountains with 60 millimetres, followed by Mount Wellington with 49 millimetres.
Hobart copped 18 millimetres.
Over the past three days, the totals were much bigger, capturing the rain that hit the state’s north earlier in the week before shifting south.
Some of the highest three-day totals came from around Cradle Mountain, with Lake Gairdner recording 97 millimetres and Iris River collecting 93 millimetres.
Sheffield had 73 millimetres, while Scottsdale in the north-east got 66 millimetres.
“Basically what we’ve seen is the rain fell across the north early in the week and then in this overnight period we’ve seen the focus of the rain shifting to the south of the state,” House said.
She said Thursday would be the last day of the rainy conditions, with only brief light showers expected by late evening.
The long weekend is shaping up to be dry for most of the state.
“For the east and the southeast of the state, it should stay dry right across the long weekend,” House said.
