Big Rain

There has been much muttering on a weather forum about the rain event scheduled for today, which suggested huge rainfall for Sydney and the mountains West of there.  This first image is a forecast from Metelogix from about 5 days ago.  It's got a pretty palette (and actually seems pretty accurate)!
This was the Weatherzone radar for NSW about 0530 on 28 November.  Sydnet is already copping a big serve.
Here is the BoM Doppler radar at 0630 showing the wind coming from the coast.
 
The BoM radar at 0700 is interesting since, when set on loop, it showed moisture coming down from the North as well as that coming up from the Coast
About 0830 there was a comment on the Forum from Lane Cove "97mm since 5am here in cyclone like conditions".  That was more or less reflected in comments in the SMH, which also covered delays at Sydney Airport due to strong winds.  Yep the planes are going into holding patterns over Dalton (image from Flightradar Pro).
That situation had resolved itself once the morning rush was over.

 Our Tawny Frogmouths had decided to roost for the day on a fence rail.  They weren't looking that happy, but rain doesn't seem to cause them any great grief.
 Following on the interest about the high rainfall at Bateman's Bay this form of the BoM radar image shows the rainfall recorded in the 24 hours to 0900.
The most interesting items in that image are 
  • the little bits of red (100+mm around Pigeon House Mountain; and
  • the relatively light falls in the valleys of Carwoola and Tuggerannong.
As might be expected the media coverage of this in Sydney is approaching apocalyptic.  The RTA map of driving conditions appears similar:
I suspect this appears much worse than it is on the ground.  There is no way members of the CFMEU or MWU would be out doing roadworks in this, so ignore all those icons.  The special event icons seem to refer mainly to Christmas celebrations (or other road closures) in December so ignore them.  The hazards vary from prangs closing half a road to heavy traffic following an earlier prang! Several of the flood icons seem to be water on road rather than road closed!

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