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In Fairfield East, residents had to leave their homes as heavy rain turned streets into temporary rivers, prompting over 490 requests for assistance to the State Emergency Service (SES).
Among these calls, 42 incidents required urgent water rescues.
Meanwhile, vehicles in shopping center parking lots were submerged, and numerous roadways throughout the metropolitan region were impassable.
The Bureau of Meteorology has lifted the severe weather warning for Greater Sydney, with rainfall expected to diminish as the morning progresses.
However, flood alerts continue to be in effect for vast areas of outback New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and the Northern Territory.
A near-stationary tropical low system hanging over Central Australia continues to pour rain into all four states, with the heavy downpour slowly moves south.
Adelaide is next in line for a soaking, with more than 100mm forecast to fall on the city in coming hours.
Some events in the city have already been cancelled, with flash flooding expected across the metropolitan area.
Rain also continues to bucket down in dust-dry outback Queensland, with the tiny town of Birdsville, 10km from the South Australian, copping an extremely rare drenching.
It was also Queensland’s second-highest 24-hour rainfall total behind Fall Creek in the decidedly more tropical Cape York Peninsula.
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