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NSW residents have been advised to brace for six-hourly rainfall totals of between 80 and 150mm across Saturday and Sunday, with some areas forecast to receive a month’s worth of rain over the weekend.
The weather system comes on the first weekend of school holidays in the state, and drivers are being asked to take extreme caution.The BoM said on Friday afternoon the system may develop into a low on Sunday or Monday, prolonging the persistent rain into next week.said heavy falls across the weekend could to lead to rising river levels as the deluge hits multiple already saturated catchments.
We know these are quite dangerous systems. They’ve been known to produce some widespread flooding in the past, and that’s certainly on the cards for the next few days.The landscape is quite vulnerable at the moment and the water can move very quickly down the slopes and through the waterways.
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