{"id":174339,"date":"2025-02-10T16:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T06:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=174339"},"modified":"2025-02-10T16:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T06:32:32","slug":"severe-thunderstorms-giant-hail-and-intense-rain-batter-huge-parts-of-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=174339","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms, giant hail and intense rain batter huge parts of NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Torrential rain brought 52mm of rainfall in just 90 minutes across Sydney&#8217;s CBD today as the east coast was battered by a fierce and stormy rain bomb.\ufeff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>L\ufeffarge parts of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/new-south-wales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New South Wales<\/a>&nbsp;were warned to stay indoors as thunderstorms smashed the coast, with flash flooding causing chaos across Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thunderstorms rolled across the state, bringing with them giant hail, destructive winds and heavy rainfall after the Bureau of Meteorology warned an &#8220;unsettled&#8221; day of wild weather was ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image_2025-02-10_173059014.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image_2025-02-10_173059014.png 500w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image_2025-02-10_173059014-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flooding in Parramatta.&nbsp;(Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image_2025-02-10_173106347.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image_2025-02-10_173106347.png 500w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image_2025-02-10_173106347-300x282.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Town Hall Station flooded after torrential ran.&nbsp;(Supplied)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sydney was smashed with thunderstorms and heavy rain led to flash flooding across the CBD, Inner West and eastern suburbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roads in Strathfield in the city&#8217;s Inner West \ufeffbecame rivers and caused traffic chaos, along with parts of Parramatta and the eastern suburbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thunderstorms rolled across the state, bringing with them giant hail, destructive winds and heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":174340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,47,3813],"tags":[5026,2139],"class_list":["post-174339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-rail-news","category-severe-weather","tag-nsw","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174344,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174339\/revisions\/174344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}