The Bureau of Meteorology is warning of potentially life-threatening flash flooding in parts of southern New South Wales and north-east Victoria. The humid air over eastern Australia is expected to collide with a trough of low pressure, providing the ideal conditions for rain and thunderstorms. There's also warning of severe thunderstorms in parts of Tasmania.
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00:00 There are severe weather warnings in place across several parts of the country today,
00:06 including the Northern Territory, New South Wales and the ACT, Victoria and parts of Tasmania
00:13 too.
00:14 Severe weather warnings in Western Australia and northern parts of Queensland have now
00:17 been cancelled.
00:19 In New South Wales, up to 120 millimetres of rain is possible across parts of the Southern
00:24 Tablelands, South West Slopes, Snowy Mountains, Riverina as well as the ACT.
00:30 The rainfall is expected to be heavy and intense, with warnings it could lead to dangerous flash
00:35 flooding.
00:36 There are several flood warnings out for rivers across the state, ranging from minor to final.
00:41 They affect the Bellinger, Arara, Warrago and Peru rivers, as well as the Tweed and
00:46 Bogan rivers too.
00:48 The Weather Bureau says humid air over eastern Australia is expected to collide with a trough
00:53 of low pressure, providing ideal conditions for rain and thunderstorms.
00:58 That cold front is going to be dragging a significant band of rain and potentially severe
01:02 thunderstorms across the south east through the day today.
01:05 So we've already got a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of Tasmania, we've already
01:09 got other severe thunderstorms going on across the south east, but we also have a severe
01:15 weather warning current for north eastern parts of Victoria and some of those south
01:19 eastern parts of New South Wales.
01:20 One way or the other though, wet weather is on the way and very stormy weather as well,
01:24 not just for Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales, but parts of South Australia and southern
01:28 Queensland as well.
01:30 It's been a wet week in the middle of an already wet summer and some mammoth falls have already
01:35 been recorded across parts of New South Wales.
01:38 North Rocks recorded the heaviest 24 hour rain in four years with 120mm.
01:44 North Parramatta in western Sydney received 104mm to 9am on Monday and on Tuesday in western
01:52 New South Wales, Hay received 54mm by 9am, the town's heaviest falls in seven years.
02:00 But by 9am on Tuesday, Dorogo recorded its heaviest rain in 23 years with 307mm.
02:08 New South Wales SES responded to more than 400 calls for assistance yesterday with volunteers
02:13 rescuing four people from flooded waters across the state, including a 10 year old
02:19 girl who was found clinging to a tree above a swollen river in the state's north east.
02:25 Now with dangerous flash flooding predicted again today, it's all hands on deck for the
02:29 SES with crews across the state, including from this unit behind me here in Randwick,
02:34 being deployed to help.
02:36 People are being warned to stay alert and stay away from flood waters.
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