{"id":269651,"date":"2025-08-20T14:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=269651"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:13:43","slug":"significant-and-intense-rainfall-to-drench-sydney-and-east-coast-of-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=269651","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Significant and intense&#8217; rainfall to drench Sydney and east coast of NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Millions of residents across large parts of NSW including Sydney have been warned\ufeff to brace for &#8220;significant and intense&#8221; rainfall over the next three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SES has urged the community to stay aware and heed advice as an unpredictable and complex weather system threatens to unleash flooding across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flood watches and warnings are in place up and down the NSW coast as a rainbomb lingers over most of the\ufeff state, with a warning of thunderstorms and high winds in many parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lingering showers could persist on Saturday however the bureau expects the high pressure system will start to move out to sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bernasconi said most of the rain will come in the afternoon and evenings.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_2025-08-20_141228697-1024x988.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_2025-08-20_141228697-1024x988.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_2025-08-20_141228697-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_2025-08-20_141228697-768x741.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_2025-08-20_141228697-1536x1481.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_2025-08-20_141228697.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Greater Sydney and the CBD is also forecast to be battered by more rain over the next three days.\ufeff&nbsp;(Bureau of Meteorology)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>SES deputy commissioner Deb Platz said residents who have already weathered several major flood events this year should not be complacent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SES deputy commissioner Deb Platz said residents who have already weathered several major flood events this year should not be complacent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":269652,"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":[35,3813,2695],"tags":[5026,2139],"class_list":["post-269651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-severe-weather","category-sydney-trains","tag-nsw","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269651","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=269651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269654,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269651\/revisions\/269654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}