RAIN RELIEF: Firefighters are breathing a sigh of relief after torrential downpours drenched firegrounds across parts of ravaged NSW. 9News Where it will rain:
The SES has moved additional resources up to northern NSW, which has been hit particularly hard, with the main street of Byron Bay turned into a river after flood waters inundated shops and vehicles along the strip.
"In some places there is not a lot of vegetation around to stabilise the slopes," the Bureau of Meteorology's acting NSW State Manager, Jane Golding, said. Byron Bay was hit with 107mm of rain in the past 24 hours, while Cape Byron's received 254mm during the 21 hours to 6am on Friday – the heaviest daily total since records started in 2002 and higher than any monthly total since March 2017.
"A coastal trough near the northern NSW coast is bringing increased rainfall to the area," explained the BoM.
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