More than 400mm falls on parts of mid north coast as flash floods hit state
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Sydney’s Warragamba Dam is set to spill over this afternoon and combine with river flows to potentially cause flooding across western Sydney.
Bureau of Meteorology national flood services manager Justin Robinson delivered the warning at a press conference in Sydney just now. I’ll share the updates from that over a few posts here.
It’s a very dynamic and evolving flood situation and we could see some very deep and rapid responding rivers with very high levels.
Warragamba dam is right at spilling point. Good luck to those downstream in Western Sydney. Here’s the capacity of the dam over the past month: pic.twitter.com/yn3vtOny2u
A new band of rain is headed for flood-hit NSW and is expected to push rainfall totals in some places to one metre in the space of just a week.
The Bureau of Meteorology says eastern NSW is in for a double whammy, AAP reports.
