City residents have been lashed by rain over recent days, a whole lot of it, with the city already receiving nearly half its monthly average for this time of year mean most similar story for Southeast Queensland, and the forecast shows large hailstones and damaging winds could be on the way. Joining me now, Senior Meteorologist at the Bureau, Miriam Bradbury. Miriam, good morning to you all the rain in Sydney and around New South Wales. What's going on?

City residents have been lashed by rain over recent days, a whole lot of it, with the city already receiving nearly half its monthly average for this time of year mean most similar story for Southeast Queensland, and the forecast shows large hailstones and damaging winds could be on the way. Joining me now, Senior Meteorologist at the Bureau, Miriam Bradbury. Miriam, good morning to you all the rain in Sydney and around New South Wales. What's going on?

Yeah, well, certainly we're seeing a lot of weather across the east coast of New South Wales today. It will be focused about the central coast, the Illawarra and parts of the northeast, so that is rain areas, showers and thunderstorms increasing through the day today, continuing into tomorrow and even into Sunday as well. Of particular interest is of course areas around Sydney. We have a floodwatch current for the Hawkspring Nepean River. Really that's just alerting everyone to the fact that we could see a riverine response waterways starting to rise as this rainfall comes through.

Yeah, well, certainly we're seeing a lot of weather across the east coast of New South Wales today. It will be focused about the central coast, the Illawarra and parts of the northeast, so that is rain areas, showers and thunderstorms increasing through the day today, continuing into tomorrow and even into Sunday as well. Of particular interest is of course areas around Sydney. We have a floodwatch current for the Hawkspring Nepean River. Really that's just alerting everyone to the fact that we could see a riverine response waterways starting to rise as this rainfall comes through.

Some mornings too. For Southeast Queensland, Miriam, yes.

Some mornings too. For Southeast Queensland, Miriam, yes.

That's exactly right. We've seen a lot of rain through Southeast Island, pushing all the way up through the White Main Burnett in the last twenty four hours, and we're expecting further rain today and over the weekend. Today for Southeast Queensland the focus will be a little ways further inland, with the risk of heavy falls across parts of the Darling Downs and grant about parts of the Marianoa and Warrigo as well. But through tomorrow that risk of heavy falls is going to shift towards the coast, so tomorrow will be the wet today for Brisbane.

That's exactly right. We've seen a lot of rain through Southeast Island, pushing all the way up through the White Main Burnett in the last twenty four hours, and we're expecting further rain today and over the weekend. Today for Southeast Queensland the focus will be a little ways further inland, with the risk of heavy falls across parts of the Darling Downs and grant about parts of the Marianoa and Warrigo as well. But through tomorrow that risk of heavy falls is going to shift towards the coast, so tomorrow will be the wet today for Brisbane.

All right. I hope we don't get the flooding, but some of the rain's being needed too, so that's not too bad. Mariam, thank you for that.

All right. I hope we don't get the flooding, but some of the rain's being needed too, so that's not too bad. Mariam, thank you for that.