Australia Weather News

A flood watch is current in the Mount Lofty Ranges near Adelaide as another cold front approaches the region.

In the 48 hours until 9am, 70 millimetres was dumped on Woodhouse in the Hills.

The weather bureau has forecast another 10 millimetres to 20 millimetres of rain late this afternoon before conditions ease tomorrow.

The upper Onkaparinga catchment, the Angas catchment and the Bremer catchment were all saturated and river levels are already high.

The bureau said the Onkaparinga River at Oakbank was likely to exceed the minor flood level of 2.10 metres this evening.

SES volunteers are handing out sandbags at Bridgewater.

The Sealink ferry between Kangaroo Island and Cape Jervis has been cancelled with the bureau issuing a severe weather warning for the third day in a row as a series of cold fronts sweep across the state.

The bureau said the latest front was expected to reach Kangaroo Island and Eyre Peninsula in early-to-mid afternoon, before moving over the central and eastern districts in the late afternoon and evening.

The bureau said winds were likely to be "briefly damaging" with gusts exceeding 90 kilometres per hour, associated with showers and thunderstorms.

SeaLink said the 10.30am and 1.30pm services between the island and Cape Jervis would not run, but the company would make a decision at about midday about whether the evening service would go ahead.

Penneshaw Hotel manager Nicola Purvis said wild conditions have had minimal impact on the domestic tourist trade, but international numbers had taken a hit.

"If they've got to fit the whole of Australia in seven days and they can't get to Kangaroo Island … it does affect tourism a little bit," she said.

Wind gusts of up to 93 kilometres per hour were recorded at Parndana on the island on Monday afternoon.

A brief storm cell ripped through Somerton Park in Adelaide on Monday, causing extensive damage to houses and bringing down trees.

The bad weather also resulted in the closure of the Brighton and Seaford passenger railway line after a sheet of iron was blown into powerlines near a substation, cutting power to the electric railway.