Rain bomb to strike Australia's east coast: What the weather will be like in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and more
Millions of residents living along Australia's east coast have been warned to brace for heavy rain and gale force winds as a powerful low-pressure system builds.
The low is expected to develop off the coast of NSW on Tuesday and drop up to 150mm of rain between Newcastle, Sydney and the Illawarra over a 48-hour period.
Brisbane residents can also expect up to 30mm of rainfall on Monday before conditions ease over the week with lows of 11C and highs of 22C.
Sydney will likely see morning fog and rainfall over the week, with the worst of the onslaught to hit on Tuesday.
The city can expect lows of 8C and highs of 18C.
Strong winds are also expected to harry the NSW, eastern Victorian and southeast Queensland coastlines as the low pressure system moves in.
Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Angus Hines told Daily Mail Australia the wet change would replace a 'fairly stubborn' high-pressure system, which has gifted the state a run of clear weather.
'(The low pressure system) will develop near the coast in the north of (NSW), somewhere near the Northern Rivers, but it really intensifies in the southwest, so closer to the Hunter, closer to Sydney where it becomes a powerful weather system on Tuesday,' he said.
'Then on about Thursday, between Thursday and Friday, it pulls out of the Tasman, getting quite far away from the country and also weakening at the same time.'
He said the system would direct some 'very strong wind, and quite a lot of rainfall' onto eastern NSW.
'For anyone near the water there's going to be powerful waves and potential coastal erosion, it's a fairly notable outbreak of weather,' Mr Hines said.
'It could be over 100mm of rain particularly over the eastern parts of Sydney ... but basically wherever you are wet day Tuesday, wet day Wednesday.'
Far northern Queensland and parts of the Northern Territory also received an unseasonable soaking on Sunday as a low-pressure trough made its way inland from the north.
'It was low-pressure that built up in the north and made up to a cloud band that was getting fuelled by moisture from the Gulf of Carpentaria, so getting fed by that tropical humidity, bringing a modest amount of rainfall at a typically quite dry time of the year,' Mr Hines said.
He said there would be a few 'weak weather features' in the west of the country.
Perth is set to host a subdued cold front bringing rainfall on Monday and Wednesday and lows of 9C and highs of 22C.
In the country's south, Melbourne will see lows of 5C and Hobart will brave minimum temperatures as little as 2C.
Adelaide is tipped to have a cloudy week bar Tuesday, as scattered showers develop into the weekend.
The weather over Darwin will be seasonably sunny and clear as temperatures are tipped to remain between 18C and 30C.
The Bureau of Meteorology's long-range forecast tipped day and night temperatures across Australia would be above average in the south and west of NSW.
The warmer change also carries with it the risk of fires in South Australia and Victoria.
'I think the longer term forecast over the next few months as we look into July the maximum temperature is shaping up to be higher than average,' Mr Hines said.
Curiously, Mr Hines said, the longer range forecast is predicting more average temperatures going into August.
Sydney
Monday: Showers increasing. Min 10C. Max 18C.
Tuesday: Rain. Min 11C. Max 17C.
Wednesday: Showers. Min 12C. Max 17C.
Canberra
Monday: Morning frost. Partly cloudy.Min -5C. Max 13C.
Tuesday: Early frost. Shower or two. Min -1C. Max 13C.
Wednesday: Shower or two. Min 3C. Max 12C.
Melbourne
Monday: Partly cloudy. Min 6C. Max 13C.
Tuesday: Possible shower. Min 5C. Max 14C.
Wednesday: Shower or two. Min 7C. Max 13C.
Monday: Partly cloudy. Min 7C. Max 15C.
Tuesday: Sunny. Min 5C. Max 15C.
Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Min 4C. Max 15C.
Perth
Monday: Showers increasing. Min 12C. Max 22C.
Tuesday: Shower or two. Min 12C. Max 22C.
Wednesday: Showers. Min 12C. Max 20C.
Darwin
Monday: Sunny. Min 20C. Max 31C.
Tuesday: Sunny. Min 20C. Max 31C.
Wednesday: Sunny. Min 20C. Max 31C.
Brisbane
Monday: Rain. Min 14C. Max 18C.
Tuesday: Sunny. Min 11C. Max 21C.
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