Residents around Jervis Bay and Batemans Bay are being told to stay indoors, with a “watch and act” warning issued by the SES amid heavy rainfall and damaging and destructive winds.
It comes after updated severe weather warnings for residents across the Illawarra and the South Coast, with people in Sydney, the Central Coast and the Hunter Region also advised to continue to monitor conditions as damaging winds and heavy rainfall move southwards this evening.
The Bureau of Meteorology has advised that the complex low-pressure system which has caused havoc across NSW so far today is currently located offshore of the Hunter Coast, and gradually tracking southwards before an expected north-east turn into the Tasman Sea during Wednesday.
“Winds are expected to strengthen along the central to northern Great Dividing Range, southern ranges and ACT this evening,” it said.
Peak gusts in excess of 125 km/h are expected between Jervis Bay and Moruya, with this risk easing during Wednesday morning. Heavy rainfall may lead to flash flooding in the Illawarra south of about Wollongong later this evening, extending southwards towards Bega in the South Coast, with six-hourly totals between 50 to 80 millimetres likely, and isolated totals up to 120 millimetres.
Winds averaging 60 to 70 km/h, with peak gusts of around 110 km/h are possible along coastal parts from the South Coast to the Mid North Coast, including the Sydney metropolitan area. Severe weather warnings extend from as far as the Queensland border to Tathra on the Sapphire Coast.
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