Heavy rain will continue to hit Sydney and parts of the New South Wales coast after a weekend of bad weather in eastern Australia left tens of thousands of people without power and caused flash flooding.
Weatherzone has warned that Sydney will be hit by rain over the next 10 days, unpleasant news for millions of residents who have already endured a wet week.
Up to 60mm of rain fell in Harbor City on Sunday, while more than 60,000 homes were left without power in the Illawarra region.
Heavy rain further north caused flooding in parts of Queensland and a captured 4×4 vehicle was swept away by raging waters at Weerriba on Saturday.
Weatherzone meteorologist Aline Ribeiro warned that up to 150mm could fall in the next seven days, however conditions will begin to improve by mid-week.
Heavy rain will continue to hit parts of Australia after a weekend of bad weather left tens of thousands of people without power and caused flash flooding.
Weatherzone has warned that Sydney will be hit by rain for the next 10 days, unwelcome news for millions of residents who have already endured a wet week.
“The southeasterly winds will continue to bring rain throughout the week, although not with as much intensity or consistency as in recent days,” he said.
Over the past seven days, eastern New South Wales and parts of the Queensland coast have been bombarded with heavy downpours recording up to 100mm of rain.
Dean Narramore, senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, said areas south of Sydney suffered the heaviest falls so far, but the system has begun to move northwards.
Severe weather warnings were issued for possible flash flooding in parts of the Illawarra and thunderstorms north of Wollongong and east of Dubbo on Sunday night.
BoM meteorologist Miriam Bradbury warned Australians to bundle up and stay warm.
“For the rest of today (Monday) and into tomorrow, even into Wednesday, those showers should remain quite patchy, with today being the main risk of persistent moderate falls,” he said.
“As we move into the latter part of the week, particularly Friday into next weekend, we can see the risk of a moderate to strong decline increase once again.”
Illawarra has already experienced two blackouts; The first lost power just before 9:00 pm on Sunday. Some 40,297 properties in Bulli, Thirroul, Woonona and Austinmer were left in the dark.
Power was restored after 30 minutes, but was cut again at 5am on Monday, this time affecting around 20,000 properties.
Power was restored 15 minutes later.
Heavy rain further north caused flooding in parts of Queensland and a captured 4×4 vehicle was swept away by raging waters at Weerriba on Saturday.
Elsewhere, Brisbane is forecast to face cloudy weather with a slight chance of rain on Monday.
No rain is forecast for Melbourne despite cloudy conditions for most of the week.
Adelaide escaped the deluge over the weekend and South Australia’s capital is set for a quiet week ahead.
Canberra will start the week with partly cloudy conditions before showers develop on Thursday with temperatures reaching 18C.
Perth will be mostly sunny and enjoy a high of 29C on Thursday before showers arrive on Friday.
Darwin will continue to enjoy its stretch of summer conditions with the mercury reaching between 33C and 34C during the week.
