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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Rafqa Touma

Rain to hit NSW, Victoria and Queensland but unlikely to subdue bushfire season

An SES vehicle drives through flood water in Tinamba in eastern Victoria in October 2023
The State Emergency Service is warning people not to drive if flash flooding occurs during forecast wet weather this week across eastern Australia. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

Heavy rain, severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and large hail will wash across eastern Australia this week. But experts say the rainfall will not do much to subdue the bushfire season expected to be the worst since black summer.

Wet weather was expected to move across inland New South Wales and northern Victoria on Tuesday. The states could see rainfall up to 150mm on Wednesday, according to Dean Narramore, a senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology.

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