Storms are rolling in to have fun on the cool Aussie day
Storms have arrived in western Sydney, making their way to crowded beaches after a hot and muggy start to Australia Day.
This was announced by a volunteer lifeguard herald This Thursday was the busiest she had ever seen in Bondi Beach as people took advantage of the bank holiday.
It’s not certain the storms will reach the beaches, but the Bureau of Meteorology warned beachgoers that they were living dangerously if they assumed they didn’t.
The wet is getting wetter: A busy Bondi Beach in Australia the day before storms hit the shore.Credit:Brook Mitchell
“We can’t be sure they’ll make their way to shore…if the storm hits the cold coastal air, it could slow them down, but it’s on the razor’s edge,” meteorologist Jake Phillips said.
The Bureau’s rain radar indicated the strongest storms would hit the Manly coast on the northern beaches down to Cronulla around 4.30pm.
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Almost all of Greater Sydney would be affected to some extent, but conditions were not expected to reach the level of damage reported earlier in the week. There were more than 100 SES deployments after Tuesday night’s storms, which caused more than 20,000 lightning strikes.
The Weather Bureau has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for damaging winds, large hail and heavy rain for a large inland area stretching from Hunter in the north down to Bega in the south of the state. The warning area extends almost as far west as the Blue Mountains but not all the way to Canberra and includes western Sydney.
“There is a possibility of hail and damaging wind gusts, particularly to the west, but we cannot completely rule out that they will reach the coast,” Phillips said. “We may need to extend the storm warning to the coast.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/rain-thunderstorms-threaten-to-ruin-australia-day-fun-across-sydney-20230126-p5cfq9.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_environment Storms are rolling in to have fun on the cool Aussie day
