Hold onto your raincoats loves, it’s about to get wetter than a seal’s backside out here. Meteorologists across the country are predicting a sopping wet catastrophe as a “fortnight-long” rain event is forecast to come and waterboard all of us into submission. I for one welcome our liquid overlords.
If you’re looking outside your window right now and seeing nothing but rain, you may be thinking to yourself: ‘ahh, that pesky mistress La Niña, she can’t get enough of us, can she?’ But you’d be incorrect. La Niña is dead and gone (kinda). There are no gods. Mother Nature just hates us, I’m sorry.
A month’s worth (you read that correctly) of rain is set to hit the east coast of Australia in the next three days, kicking off on Friday and getting worse as the weekend progresses. That means your weekend plans are about to be decimated, and we’re all about to be given a Wet’n’Wild fast pass (or Jamberoo, if ya nasty).
“It’s looking rather wet for at least a week – possibly two – for the east coast,” Meteorologist Alison Osbourne told news.com.au.
“Basically, our weather patterns have stalled.
“Anticlockwise winds around the high are leading to onshore winds and therefore persistent showers along the east coast, with the heaviest between Sydney and the Sunshine Coast.”
I have no idea what an anticlockwise wind is but I’m not prepared to have it use me like I’m a Batavia lettuce leaf in a salad spinner.
The long-lasting rain event is scheduled to hit Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong and all of southern Queensland the hardest.
“Twenty to 50mm for Sydney is possible on Saturday and Sunday – with weekly totals in excess of 150mm for Sydney and the central coast,” said Osbourne.
“This is well over a month’s rain.
“The silver lining is that the heaviest rain looks very coastal, but that’s not amazing for being out and about on the weekend.”
Meteorologists warn that flash floods across Sydney are more than possible, so maybe change your picnic in the park plans to a fishing adventure with the girls over at Sydney’s Central a̶q̶u̶a̶r̶i̶u̶m̶ station.
As for the other capital cities, Hobart and Melbourne are expected to get quite cloudy over the weekend with some rain in the next week, Brisbane and Perth will experience a light drizzle and Adelaide and Darwin will be sunny. Although Adelaide’s definition of “sunny” is a max 22C day and Darwin’s is a max 35C day.
Stay safe out there friends, and see you in the sunshine in about two weeks!
