SYDNEY: Hundreds more Sydney residents were ordered to leave their homes on Friday , some for the second time in a month, as rivers burst their banks even as an intense weather system that dumped more than a month's rainfall over a few hours began to ease.
Australia's east coast has been hammered by three separate wild weather patterns in the past six weeks with several regions still battling to clear tonnes of debris after devastating floods submerged entire towns. The torrential rain has raised the risks of flash flooding and landslips, with Sydney having already received more than its average annual rainfall.Many residents in the city's western suburbs, who were asked to evacuate in early March, were ordered to move out again this week. More than 4,000 residents are facing flood evacuations.
Sydney, which recorded its wettest March on record, received around 170 mm of rain on Thursday, official data showed.