3 July 2022 08:44
Large areas of the Australian city of Sydney were inundated on Sunday, while heavy rains that fell on Australia’s largest city led to serious flooding in low-lying areas, with floods reaching a height of 1.5 meters in some suburbs.
The New South Wales Emergency Service issued a recommendation to residents of several areas to evacuate their homes, warning that rain was expected to continue until at least Monday.
The Sydney area has already experienced 4 times the amount of rain it normally receives during the whole month of July, according to media reports.
The Australian Meteorological Service has warned that water levels in the area could rise at least as high as they were in March, when large parts of the lower-lying areas of the city were hit by severe flooding.
She said the water behind the Waragamba Dam had already overflowed. Meteorologist Jonathan Howe told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that in the village of Menangel, about 70 kilometers southwest of Sydney, the water level in the river had already reached 16.5 metres, just below the record high of 16.8 metres recorded in April 2022.
Source: agencies
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