Australia's east coast braces for weekend washout as freak weather event brings ... trends now

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Australia's east coast is bracing for a weekend washout with Sydney set to be hammered with more than a month's worth of rain in just 48 hours.

The Harbour City will be lashed with more than 100mm of rain between Friday and Sunday with the miserable conditions expected to last a fortnight. 

Forecasters at Weatherzone said the washout followed a prolonged period of rainfall  generated by a trough on the NSW coast and began on Tuesday. 

Rain is forecast every day from now until the weekend, with the heaviest falls in NSW expected between Saturday and next Tuesday. 

An upper-level low approaching the state will bring widespread falls of 60mm to 120mm to the central and northern NSW coasts and Sydney. 

Isolated falls could exceed 200mm in some areas.