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Residents up and down the coast are being told to brace for another day of extreme winds and possibly severe storms as a cold front sweeps through Australia’s south-east.

Yesterday, roofs were blown from homes, trees flung across roads and powerlines were brought down after winds of up to 100km/h battered much of New South Wales and Victoria.

Today, conditions are set to be just as chaotic with the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) already having issued a number of fresh warnings.

In both NSW and Victoria, gusts of over 100km/h have again been predicted. 

In NSW, residents all the way from Sydney’s metropolitan area down to Eden, including parts of the Central Tablelands, Riverina, Hunter and Central West Slopes, have been warned over the damaging gusts.

In Victoria, the warning extends to residents in Central, East Gippsland, South West, Northern Country, North Central, North East, West and South Gippsland, Wimmera and parts of Mallee Forecast Districts.