Sydney floods

Around 30000 people have been affected after around a month's worth of rain fell over parts of New South Wales over the weekend.

Homes, farms and bridges have been left underwater in several suburbs in the west of Australia's largest city. More than 30,000 people have been affected after around a month's worth of rain fell over parts of New South Wales over the weekend. Tens of thousands of people have been told to leave their homes after heavy rain and flash flooding hit Sydney in Australia.

An intense low-pressure system was forecast to bring more heavy rain to Australia's east coast on Monday with the Bureau of Meteorology predicting another 10cm ...

"It has been a very difficult time for many months to have this flood event off the back of others. Many have not recovered from previous flooding," Dr Wright added. "Much of the flooding has been impacting vulnerable people.

Rapidly rising rivers swamped swathes of rain-lashed Sydney on Monday, forcing thousands to flee "dangerous" floods as the city's largest dam spilled ...

"However, our research of the March 2021 Sydney floods found that similar events over Sydney were likely to occur 80 percent more often by the end of the 21st century." The huge concrete dam lies on the western outskirts of Sydney and provides most of the city's drinking water. Mud-brown river waters transformed a large stretch of land into a lake in the southwestern Sydney suburb of Camden. But evacuated residents in one area of western Sydney were now being allowed to return home, officials said, as weather conditions in New South Wales were forecast to ease over the next 24 hours. Australia has been at the sharp end of climate change, with droughts, deadly bushfires, bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef and floods becoming more common and intense as global weather patterns change. Rapidly rising rivers swamped swathes of rain-lashed Sydney on Monday, forcing thousands to flee "dangerous" floods as the city's largest dam spilled torrents of water.

After three days of torrential rain on Australia's east coast, emergency workers have rescued more than 140 people. Many of the people rescued were trapped in ...

This means that in periods of heavy rainfall, it is easier for the water to get into the valley and harder for the water to flow out. Although La Nina ended in June, the Bureau of Meteorology gives it a 50-50 chance of returning later this year. Several suburbs have already been flooded and at least one person has died.