Monsoon low could bring year’s worth of rain in a week to parts of NSW, Queensland and South Australia

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"A lingering monsoon low could deliver a year’s worth of rain in a week to
parts of inland South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, just weeks
after record-breaking heat, with a high risk of flash flooding.

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued severe weather warnings for several
regions on Tuesday – north-western NSW, central and northern parts of Victoria,
north-east SA, and south-western Queensland – with heavy, locally intense
rainfall predicted.

Places in north-eastern SA and north-western NSW were expected to receive
between 200-300mm of rain over coming days, according to the BoM with
widespread falls of 100-200mm across inland areas.

Further thunderstorms with the potential for heavy rain and flash flooding had
the potential to occur through central Victoria, including Melbourne, on
Tuesday.

Those were “some big numbers in a very dry part of the country”, said Dean
Narramore, a senior meteorologist with the bureau."

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