Wet and windy weather has kept the state’s police and SES personnel busy overnight, including fallen trees and rogue trampolines.
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The Bureau of Meteorology has continued a state-wide severe weather for strong winds initially issued on Saturday, with wind gusts as high as 141 kilometres felt in some parts of the state.
Police sergeant Nick Cooper said emergency services had responded to a number of incidents overnight, including a fishing vessel stranded on a reef in Recherche Bay in the state’s South.
Police vessels and the Westpac Police Rescue Helicopter attended the scene and all people were accounted for.
Other reports include a house which lost part of its roof in Binya Court, Kingston and a yacht that washed ashore in Tranmere.
There was also a number of fallen tress across roads in Howrah, Mornington, Campania, Blackmans Bay, Police Point, Deep Bay, Bonnet Hill, Burnie, Mole Creek and Strahan.
Power lines were also down on the Tasman Highway at Bicheno.
TasNetworks is responding to a number of outages, with more than a thousand residents without power across the state.
BOM is predicting damaging North to North-Westerly winds for most of Sunday, strengthening later in the evening and continue into Monday ahead of a second cold front.
Wind gusts of 100 kilometres are predicted, with up to 120 kilometres in exposed locations from late Sunday to early Monday afternoon.
The warning is for all districts except the Bass Strait islands.
Jessica Willard
Being a health reporter to me is about more than just reporting the problems. It's about asking why they are happening in the first place and what needs to change to fix it.
Being a health reporter to me is about more than just reporting the problems. It's about asking why they are happening in the first place and what needs to change to fix it.
