Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth weather: Even more rain about to strike trends now
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Heavy rain, thunderstorms and flash flooding could impact large swathes of Australia this weekend with more rain expected after a week of wet weather.
A high pressure system centred just south the country is drawing in moisture from the atmosphere which will turn to rain as it meets a pool of upper-level cold air over the next few days.
NSW and Victoria are in for a soaking, while southern WA, eastern SA and southern Queensland will also see significant falls.
The northern half of the country will see some showers but remain mostly dry while Tasmania will see cool and cloudy conditions but avoid significant rainfall.
The rain in the eastern half of the country will move from SA towards the coast, hitting Melbourne on Friday and Sydney by late Friday night.
South-east Australia is in for a soaking over the weekend as this cumulative rainfall map for the seven days until Tuesday shows
Sydneysiders should take a umbrella with them if venturing out this weekend and those further south in Illawarra and the South Coast should watch for flood warnings
Already saturated catchments in NSW and Victoria could quickly flood, particularly in the Illawarra and South Coast regions of NSW where weekend rainfall totals could exceed 150mm.
The Bureau of Meteorology's Sarah Scully said the upper-level trough will combine with a coastal trough over NSW on Saturday and 'ramp up' the rainfall.
'Moderate to heavy rainfall is expected in the southern half of NSW,' Ms Scully said.
'We're expecting to issue a severe weather warning as grounds are really wet through eastern parts of NSW due to recent rainfall.
'Inland NSW the rainfall totals look to be more than 50mm over the weekend, some places even reaching 100mm.'
The Bureau also has a hazardous surf warning in place for Saturday for the Macquarie coast, Hunter coast, Sydney coast and Illawarra coast.
Canberra, Brisbane and Cairns will see some showers over the weekend and mild temperatures with Canberra dipping into the single figures overnight.
Darwin and Adelaide will be in for a fine weekend with tops in Adelaide in the low 20s and
