In the past 24 hours, the Victorian SES has received more than 600 calls for assistance, as wild weather battered the state. They related to 440 fallen trees and 110 instances of building damage.

But, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, a severe weather warning remains for damaging winds across Victoria.

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Winds of up to 143 kilometres per hour have been recorded at Mount William in the Grampians, while there were 115-kilometre gusts in St Kilda overnight.

The warning reads: “Damaging south-westerly winds averaging 60 to 70 kilometres per hour with peak gusts of around 100 kilometres per hour are expected to develop along western and central Victorian coasts during the morning, with damaging winds likely to reach Greater Melbourne after sunrise, then extend to Gippsland coasts in the middle of the day.

“Damaging wind gusts may possibly reach up to 110 kilometres per hour about the Bass Coast and Mornington Peninsula during Friday morning.”

bom.gov.au