Sydney gets six weeks’ rain in a day – ‘Heaviest in some decades’

Glenda Kwek
March 21, 2011 Sydney has switched from its driest start to the year since 1965 to one of its wettest weeks in March after up to 200 millimetres of rain fell in 24 hours this weekend – 1½ times the monthly average, a meteorologist says. The rain is expected to continue until Wednesday morning before skies clear and temperatures rise again, Brett Dutschke at weatherzone.com.au said. But the weakening of La Niña and the cooling of waters offshore also mean that the heavy rains are not expected to stretch into the rest of autumn and winter, Mr Dutschke said. …

Sydney’s heavy weather: six weeks’ rain in a day