More extreme weather ahead
Sydney will be hit with more intense, short bursts of severe weather in the coming months after the city was left battered by a storm cell overnight.
After a warm and humid Tuesday morning, strong southerly winds clashed with a low-pressure trough in the afternoon, producing heavy rain and thunderstorms across the city.
More than 22,000 lightning strikes were detected within 100 kilometres of Sydney in just a 12-hour period overnight.
The NSW SES attended 377 call-outs in the 24 hours to 5am on Wednesday, 227 of which were in the Sydney metro area.
Crews also performed 12 flood rescues statewide, 11 of which were in the city.
On Wednesday morning SES crews rushed to a priority call-out at Marrickville about 7am after a ceiling collapsed at a nursing home.
Power was still out across multiple suburbs in Sydney’s south at mid-morning, but had been restored to properties in Allambie, Allambie Heights, Manly Vale, Killara, Lindfield, Asquith, Eastwood, Hornsby and surrounding suburbs.
A spokesman for NSW SES warned Sydneysiders to prepare for similar weather events in the coming months as La Nina recedes.
“We’ve gone back into our traditional storm season where we see this intense rainfall and intense winds,” he said on Wednesday morning.
“We are not going to get that riverine flooding any more – it’s moving into that quick flash flooding instead. So, we are asking the community to be aware and prepare for that.”
Source: Sydney battered by ‘intense’ storm as La Nina’s end promises more extreme weather (msn.com)