Flash flooding expected in Sydney and NSW coast
Flash flooding is expected in and around Sydney and parts of the Central NSW coast on Thursday morning.
The heaviest downpours of around 50mm are expected on the central coast and Sydney is expected to get between 15mm and 30mm.
Seven Meteorologist David Brown said the ‘development of a small east coast low is expected to dump very heavy rain between midnight and 9am that’ll lead to flash flooding’.
Southerly quarter winds are expected to strengthen this afternoon averaging 50 to 70km/hr about the coastal fringe with gusts touching 100k’s.
Ben McBurney, meteorologist at Weatherzone told Yahoo7 News: ‘There is a bit of a trough coming through and we have storms developing tonight and moving into Sydney between 8pm and 9pm.
"We will probably have a burst come through then and the rain could come down in a short amount of time."
The heaviest downpours of around 50mm are expected on the central coast and Sydney is expected to get between 15mm and 30mm. Photo: Getty
There will be isolated areas of flooding and the system is then expected to move on towards northern NSW, Sydney will get light showers into Friday, it will be cool.
There is 90 per cent chance of rain over the next three days with temperatures predicted to hover between 23 and 25 degrees until Sunday.
Sydney has been experiencing severe storm conditions in recent days with seven storms in as many days.
Andrew Treloar, manager of New South Wales weather services at the Bureau of Meteorology, told Yahoo7 News that the recent run of storms shows weather systems are getting more and more extreme.
“The run of storms have been out of the ordinary. We haven’t had this many in a row since the 1940s,” he said.
Forecasters say flash flooding is likely in Sydney and the Central NSW coast tomorrow. Stock photo: Seven News
“We haven’t got records to show that these storms are directly linked to global warming but the science talks about the intensity of weather patterns and the recent activity is consistent with that.”
The state has been getting hotter over the last few years, according to Treloar, and it is already heading towards record heat this year.
“This type of weather is perhaps of a sign of things to come,” he said.
New South Wales has been experiencing subtropical weather for the last week and now the temperature has cooled down to the mid twenties making life more bearable.
