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SYDNEY: Fresh evacuation orders were issued for tens of thousands of Sydney residents on Monday after relentless rains flooded several suburbs, with officials warning of more wild weather to come. An intense low-pressure system off Australia’s east coast is forecast to bring heavy rain through Monday across New South Wales after several places in the state were hit with about

Fresh evacuation orders were issued for tens of thousands of Sydney residents on Monday after relentless rains flooded several suburbs, with officials warning of more wild weather to come.

Some 32,000 people told to evacuate as heavy rains continue to lash Australia’s New South Wales.

A severe weather warning of heavy rain and damaging winds is in place for Sydney, the NSW Central Coast and Hunter with Gosford, Cessnock, Maitland, Dungog and Kulnura in the firing line.

South-west Sydney is being warned to prepare for flooding similar to, or worse than, record floods earlier this year after the region received more than four times its usual July rainfall in a day.

Freezing winds blowing across Australia from the Southern Ocean are causing temperatures to plummet across the east coast as far north as the Queensland border. 

A high-pressure system moving across New South Wales can be thanked for a warm end to the working week with the east coast to enjoy longer periods of sunshine this weekend.

An icy polar blast is sweeping through Australia forcing the mercury to plummet and leading to some of the coldest starts to winter in decades in parts of the country.

Australia has been witnessing the occurrence of widespread winter weather conditions and inclement weather since the start of the winter season.

Sub-zero temperatures also expected in parts of regional Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT