Sydney is in the midst of its wettest year on record as widespread drenching rain puts many parts of western NSW on flood alert.
The previous annual record of 2194mm, which had stood since 1950, was broken at 12.30pm on Thursday after 27.2mm of rain fell at Sydney’s Observatory Hill Bureau of Meteorology station since 9am.The bulk of the rain fell in about 90 minutes, beginning at 11am.a third consecutive La Nina by the BOM in SeptemberSydney had its wettest July on record this year after only two weeks, passing the 1950 record of 336.1mm on the way to a total of 404mm.
Much of the state will see showers and thunderstorms on Thursday afternoon. The south-west is set for severe storms, heavy rainfall, possible hail and damaging winds. More than 40 warnings are current and there were particular concerns about flooding in the communities of Forbes, Warren, Dubbo, Nyngan and Bathurst, SES assistant commander Sean Kearns said.“We are watching this weather system as it may move across metropolitan areas on the east coast,” he told Nine’s Today program.
“Our landscapes are entirely saturated; our dams are basically full and the river systems, those channels, are also full,” she said.
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