More than 13,300 homes and businesses have been left without power in Sydney’s inner west as bad weather hits the city.
Thousands of Ausgrid customers were left without power on Friday night amid heavy rain.
Residents reported that streetlights and even traffic lights in the area were out.
Suburbs such as Newton and Alexandria have been affected.
More than 13,000 homes and businesses have been left without power in Sydney’s inner west as bad weather hits the city.
A normally busy King Street in Newtown was plunged into darkness on Friday night.
“Traffic lights, streetlights and shop lights are off,” an inner west resident of King Street in Newtown told Daily Mail Australia.
“People screamed and ran out of the shops.”
It comes after a week of wet weather that hit most of the country with more miserable conditions predicted.
Sydney could receive up to 45mm of rain on Saturday and up to 20mm on Sunday.
The reason for the wet weather is a high pressure system centered just south of the country that is drawing moisture from the atmosphere that will turn to rain when it meets a pool of cold air at upper levels over the next few days.
Southeastern Australia will be drenched over the weekend, as this map of accumulated rainfall for the seven days to Tuesday shows.
New South Wales and Victoria will be affected, while southern Western Australia, eastern South Africa and southern Queensland will also experience significant drops.
The Bureau of Meteorology’s Sarah Scully said the upper-level trough will combine with a coastal trough over New South Wales on Saturday and “increase” rainfall.
“Moderate to heavy rainfall is expected across the southern half of New South Wales,” Ms Scully said.
‘We expect to issue a severe weather warning as grounds are very wet in eastern parts of New South Wales due to recent rain.
“In inland NSW, rainfall totals look to exceed 50mm over the weekend, even reaching 100mm in some places.”
The Bureau also has a dangerous surf warning for Saturday for the Macquarie Coast, Hunter Coast, Sydney Coast and Illawarra Coast.
