Dominic Perrottet urges people in NSW to stay out of flood water – as it happened

NSW premier Dominic Perrottet and NSW minister for emergency services Steph Cooke during a visit to the Hawkesbury SES unit at Wilberforce north-west of Sydney. Photograph: Gaye Gerard/AAP

7.36am BST

That’s it for today, thanks for reading

Here are the main stories on Saturday, 8 October:

• Major flooding impacts NSW, with more rain expected, but Bureau of Meteorology expects falls will ease by midnight;

• The NSW premier, Dominic Perrottet, warns against driving through floodwater;

• A woman dies after a car hits a house in Sydney’s west;

• There has been a rise in respiratory diseases among children, health experts say; and

• A boy dies on the south coast of New South Wales after getting caught in a rip;

Enjoy the rest of your Saturday, and we hope to see all of you back here tomorrow.

7.22am BST

And the rainfall “winner” is …

Thought it was worth taking a poke about the Bureau of Meteorology rainfall data from 9am to 5pm in NSW to see which weather station came out on top. And the winner was (drumroll please):

Mangrove Mountain in the Hunter with 37.8mm, followed by Trangie in the central west with 33.8mm and Bourke in western NSW with 33.6mm (weather stations that have not been recently updated not included).

The Hawkesbury River in Windsor on Friday. Photograph: Jane Dempster/AAP

Updated at 7.28am BST