Possible flooding for NSW this weekend

Recent wet weather in NSW will continue this weekend, with possible flooding.

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00:00 At the moment the focus of rain is really on New South Wales but that could push into

00:05 the far south of Queensland as well and that's where we're looking through the course of

00:09 the entire weekend.

00:10 So for now, along the east coast of New South Wales it's just a little bit of showery weather

00:15 with the heavier falls at the moment over inland areas.

00:19 Spots like Cobar and Hilston out in the west have had over 50mm of rain yesterday and overnight

00:25 but that area of heavy rain currently over those inland places is moving eastwards, that

00:29 means it is moving towards that much more densely populated coastal part of the state.

00:34 What about the potential for flooding?

00:37 Yeah look we are looking at a flooding risk, particularly on Sunday for some coastal parts

00:42 of New South Wales.

00:43 We could see anywhere from 50-100mm of rain in parts of the coast around the likes of

00:49 the Illawarra district, the Sydney area, particularly those eastern suburbs of Sydney and even the

00:53 Hunter Coast and maybe the Mid North Coast as well.

00:56 But it is really important to say that the rainfall we're anticipating over the course

01:00 of this weekend is not nearly as heavy as the rain we got in that exact same area around

01:05 about a month ago, early in April, which did lead to significant and widespread flooding

01:09 so we shouldn't see the same flood response this time around.

01:13 That said, isolated areas of flooding are definitely on the cards for the next couple

01:17 of days, water over roads, blocked drains, big traffic, maybe some localised areas of

01:22 inundation as well.

01:23 So it's definitely something we'll be watching closely and it is a risk for Sunday in particular.

01:27 What about beyond the weekend?

01:29 How's next week look?

01:30 Yeah so the worst of the rainfall coming on Sunday, maybe very early into Monday morning

01:36 for parts of the New South Wales coast as well.

01:38 But on Monday we will see that all clear up from the south.

01:41 So if you're in the south of the state, early on Monday should be gone.

01:44 If you're further north up towards Sydney, maybe Hunter, maybe the Mid North Coast, that

01:48 rain could last a little bit longer on Monday.

01:50 But by the end of Monday, the worst of the rain is gone.

01:53 After that, I wish I could say we were going into fine and dry weather, but we're not really.

01:57 We're hanging on to another week of off again, on again, spotty showers, much like we've

02:01 had over the past five or six days.

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