Winds and having rainfall trigger flash flooding warnings across NSW

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Weather warnings are in place for parts of NSW as flash flooding hits coastal areas. The BOM's angus hines says it's expected to be a long lasting weather event.

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00:00We've already started to see that rain build up yesterday evening and overnight.

00:06Parts of northern Sydney had about 60 or 70 millimetres.

00:09Parts of the central coast a bit further north, well over 100 millimetres.

00:12But the focus today is really shifting on the Hunter area around and north of Newcastle

00:18and the mid-north coast up to about as far north as Port Macquarie.

00:23So it's that region there north of Sydney which we are seeing the potential for, not

00:27just rain through the day today but the next several days.

00:30That word prolonged is a key word for this weather event because we're looking at rain

00:34through most of the day today, then again tomorrow, then again on Wednesday, potentially

00:38out towards Thursday as well.

00:40So it's not a short, sharp, heavy rain event, it's a long stretch of maybe moderate rainfall

00:46at any one time, but several days in a row of moderate rain will give you big numbers.

00:50So we could see well and truly in excess of 200 millimetres, some places will probably

00:55get closer to 3 or 400 millimetres over the course of the entire week and that will definitely

01:00be enough to cause a response by the river network, especially between Newcastle and

01:05Coffs Harbour.

01:06Those rivers in that northern section of the state there are likely to see a response in

01:10terms of flooding.

01:12Widespread minor or moderate flooding is expected along those rivers and some rivers may see

01:16major flooding if that rain really falls widespread across their catchment areas.

01:21So it is going to be a significant, long-lasting wet weather event and once again the areas

01:25that are of particular concern are the Hunter area north of Newcastle and the mid-north

01:30coast area in New South Wales.

01:32Okay, and just very briefly, Angus, people can keep an eye on those flooding warnings,

01:36but the temperatures are expected to fall as well?

01:38Yeah, temperatures are going to be cold for many parts of the country.

01:41Not so bad underneath that rain event because we've got a lot of cloud cover, just some typical

01:46mild autumn temperatures there.

01:47But we've had very, very cold conditions through other places this morning and maybe even colder

01:53tomorrow morning.

01:54So that includes Melbourne, which was two degrees in the city, zero degrees at the airport

01:57and into the negatives for the suburbs.

02:00We had three degrees as the minimum in Adelaide this morning and that was down at around zero

02:05for some of the eastern suburbs of Adelaide.

02:07Okay, a chilly one.

02:08So across the southeast.

02:09A chilly one.

02:10Sorry to chop you off there, Angus.

02:11A chilly one indeed.

02:12Angus Hines there from the Bureau of Meteorology.

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