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Rain and flooding moving south over NSW
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2/5/2024
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily is moving from Queensland to NSW, bringing with it an enormous band of rain over NSW inland. Video via Bureau of Meteorology.
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Ex-Tropical Cyclone Kerali has been bringing extensive rain and flooding across Queensland
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for the last week.
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It is now making a move to the south and over the next couple of days will swiftly cross
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New South Wales with widespread rainfall there and some severe weather is on the way.
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Let's start by looking at the satellite imagery.
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This is water vapour satellite imagery showing us where the moisture in the atmosphere is
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and the ex-tropical cyclone does stick out like a sore thumb, particularly last night
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here with this high moisture content moving out of Queensland into northern New South
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Wales as it follows a southerly trajectory.
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Now let's see if we zoom in a little bit where it is located.
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Currently the XTC marked here by the L on the map is over north-western parts of New
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South Wales but it is extending a band of moisture, rain and cloud across central and
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south-eastern parts of the state as well.
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So we've already started to see some patchy rain kick in through this area with the heavier
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falls over the northern interior of the state.
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However through Monday and Tuesday we will see the rain really start to fill in right
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through this region with a broad heavy rain warning in place.
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It's just clearing out of southern parts of Queensland, this warning won't last too
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much longer as all of the rainfall starts to spread out down here.
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It does also stretch to include northern parts of Canberra.
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Parts of this area do have damaging wind in the forecast as well and we'll talk about
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that more soon.
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But with rain being the most significant factor at play over the next couple of days, let's
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check out the rain forecast.
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Between Monday lunchtime, about the time of filming, and Tuesday lunchtime, we're going
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to see a rapid movement of the XTC across the coastline.
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This loop comes to an end at 6pm on Tuesday and you can see the ex-tropical cyclone and
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most of the rain associated with it well and truly over the ocean by then.
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So we're really talking Monday evening, overnight tonight and Tuesday morning for the potential
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heavy falls to spread across New South Wales.
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Let's play that again, this time we'll put the rain accumulations on and we can see how
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much rain we're expecting and which places are likely to see the most significant falls.
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It does look like the southern side of the low will get the most significant rain with
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this broad band of 30-100mm expected.
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In particular if we zoom in on the south east, a few things I'd like to point out.
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Firstly Canberra, right in the line, right in the path of the heavier rainfall totals,
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we could see somewhere between 50-100mm of rain in Canberra over the course of the next
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24-36 hours.
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As this does depart the country and move across the coast, the heaviest rain will be south
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of Sydney.
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So Sydney here itself, somewhere between 5-20mm of rain is in the forecast, Wollongong maybe
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20-30mm of rain, the heavier falls though about the south east coast forecast district
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for New South Wales.
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Also worth noting, we could see a little bit of the heavier rain spill across the border
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and affect some north eastern parts of Victoria.
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All along this band of rain we could also see some thunderstorms which bring locally
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heavier falls so I wouldn't rule out a couple of spots, particularly in this darker red
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area that do pick up around about 150mm between now and lunchtime on Tuesday.
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So with all the rain coming, we do expect some flood response from the rivers.
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These are the flood watches across New South Wales.
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Basically these are the areas expecting to see flooding, with a few moderate flood watches
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in play for parts of New South Wales and minor flood watches also including the Queen Behan
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which does run through Canberra.
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Now I did mention wind earlier on, there is going to be some strong and gusty winds on
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Monday morning and into the afternoon.
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As we get to Monday night we'll see the stronger winds really do die away and they don't pick
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back up again on Tuesday.
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So some damaging wind possible around north western New South Wales on Monday but the
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wind threat does diminish as the next few days progress.
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So to stay up to date with the latest warnings and severe weather information you can find
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that at the Bureau website and on our app.
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Thanks very much for tuning in.
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