'
Heavy rain, cold nights and possible floods: in the weather in the coming week
International

Heavy rain, cold nights and possible floods: in the weather in the coming week

author
3 minutes, 0 seconds Read

A week of intense rainfall, together with possible floods, is on the road for a large part of the east coast of Australia.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) warns this week for a lot of east coast of “a long-term period of wet and rainy weather” from Southeast Queensland to the Illawarra region south of Sydney. Fall between 50 and 100 mm is predicted with rain that rises on Tuesday, and predicted the most common rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday before they clean up this weekend.

Flood warnings are present along some parts of the northern rivers, whereby the NSW State Emergency Service encourages northern communities to prepare for possible floods.

The NSW State Emergency Service warns communities in the north of NSW for the risks of flooding in areas that are already saturated with earlier rainfall. Source: MONKEY / PRO Handout

Flood warnings for Noord -NSW

Senior meteorologist at The Bom, Dean Narramore, says that the areas of most care for potential floods are from Coffs Harbor and Grafton to Port Macquarie.
“Certainly at the moment our focus is really on the northern rivers, the Mid-North and De Jager, as well as communities in the northwest to Tamworth, where we have flooding watches and flood warnings,” he said SBS News.

There is already an active flood watch for the Namoi and Barwon rivers in the northwest of NSW.

“In inner areas, so the Namoi and the Peel River, we already have small floods underway and so extra rainfall in these areas will lead to renewed increases around the rivers of Hastings, MacLay and the Coffs Harbor areas.”
The NSW State Emergency Service (SES) warns residents in these electricity areas to understand their flood risks and to have an emergency plan. Assistant commissioner Colin Malone says that although there is uncertainty about where the heaviest rain could hit, it will not take much for some areas to experience floods or renewed river openses.
“We know that electricity areas in Noord -NSW are saturated from recent weather conditions and will respond quickly to this rainfall,” he said.
“Thunderstorms can also cause localized heavy falls, causing a risk of flash floods.”

The bomb and the SES advise someone who was affected by floods not to drive, walk, swim or play in flood water and to stay away from flooded areas.

More rain on the road for Sydney

“By the end of this week you could easily see a monthly total of more than 300 mm for Sydney,” said Narramore.

From Monday afternoon Sydney is expected to receive a maximum rainfall of 25 mm on Tuesday, 45 mm on Wednesday and 35 mm on Thursday. Rain was finished somewhat on Friday, before it is deleted at the weekend.

However, Narramore says that it will be a short delay with another weather system that may be on the road next week.
“We are a bit stuck in this weather pattern,” he said.

“Unfortunately, if you don’t like wet and rainy conditions, we will probably continue this weather pattern. And not only in Sydney, but throughout East Australia in September, October and November we look at above -average rain.”

Coldest night of the year

On Sunday evening, a dry polar air mass above Southeast -Australia, combined with clear skies, so far in the coldest night of the year.

Thredbo Top Station registered at least -13.2 ° C, while MT Hotham registered in Victoria -7.6C.
The last time NSW like this was in 2018 was in 2018. The coldest temperature ever in Australia was in Charlotte Pass in the Snowy Mountains in 1994 that had sunk into a cold -23c.

#Heavy #rain #cold #nights #floods #weather #coming #week

Similar Posts

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *