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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Penry Buckley and Nick Visser

NSW weather: heavy rain and flooding as Sydney records wettest day of the year

A pedestrian shelters from the rain under a rainbow umbrella, with the Sydney Opera House in the background
A pedestrian shelters from the rain in Circular Quay, Sydney, on Thursday. The Bureau of Meteorology says the city’s coast could receive 70mm of rain as wild weather lashes NSW. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Hundreds of New South Wales residents have made calls for help as heavy rainfall lashes the state, leaving huge swathes at risk of flooding, as Sydney experienced its wettest day of the year to date.

Bodies have been found in the search for two men missing after a car entered a river 20km north of Wisemans Ferry, on Sydney’s northern outskirts, on Wednesday night. NSW police said earlier heavy rainfall was affecting the multi-agency effort.

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