More than 400mm falls on parts of mid north coast as flash floods hit state. Follow latest updates
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Extraordinary scenes have been recorded across the New South Wales mid north coast today, including this of a house being swept away near Taree.
WATCH: A house has been swept away by flood waters and is floating down the Manning River in Taree, NSW. #NSWFloods #SydneyWeather @BOM_au @BOM_NSW @abcnews pic.twitter.com/FT8HAZVKD4
We’re very high, on the high side of the river. So we’re fortunate. But some places are really having to evacuate. It’s been a little bit tough on those people.
And unfortunately we’ve got a lot of people who are living in their cars at the moment due to accommodation, a lack of rent, and so those people have been suffering quite a bit in this weather.
The Bureau of Meteorology’s senior climatologist, Agata Imielska, also announced some rainfall records had been broken in the past day.
She said for the mid north coast and Hunter region, rainfall had broken previous March records by as much as 200mm.
To give you context of the rainfall, we have seen 405mm recorded at Kendall. So that’s a record heaviest rainfall that we’ve seen. Also 371mm at Red Oak.
And it’s not just the total rainfall amount, it’s also how quickly and intensely that rainfall has actually fallen. So we had 160mm fall in just three hours at Kindee bridge that resulted in also a record river height at that particular location.
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