For Australia’s east coast, the wet weeks are dragging on with no immediate reprieve in sight.
“I know people in Sydney and other parts of New South Wales will be sick of hearing this,” the Bureau of Meteorology’s Angus Hines told the ABC on Saturday. “But it will be another wet week across the eastern coastline, all the way from the Illawarra through New South Wales, through Sydney, Newcastle, through Brisbane up to the Wide Bay in Queensland”.
The senior BoM meteorologist said “a couple of wet days” were forecast across eastern regions. “Tuesday through Thursday is when we’re eyeing up some persistent showers and and possible storms.”
Hines said that there would be “slightly cool, slightly showery, maybe hail-like weather” over the weekend along the east coast.
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On the other side of the country, he said there was yet another cold front, with strong winds and rain expected to arrive in Perth around about Tuesday.
Weatherzone meteorologist Ben Domensino said there was potential for hazardous and severe weather along the east coast next week, though there was some “forecast uncertainty” surrounding the weather system.
“The pool of cold air associated with next week’s wet weather will cause rain, hail and snow to spread over parts of south-eastern Australia on Friday and over the weekend. This wintry mix of precipitation will then become more focused on NSW and Queensland from Monday onwards,” he said.
“It’s important to point out that there is currently quite a lot of disagreement between computer models regarding where and how much rain will fall next week. However, there is general consensus between major models that rain will occur over parts of eastern Australia every day next week.
“Some models also suggest that heavy rain will occur on several days next week, possibly enough to cause flooding.”