Record rainfall displaces 50,000 people as Sydney’s wild weather moves north

Areas around the Hawkesbury-Nepean rivers such as Windsor have flooded again following three days of intense rainfall and floods across Sydney’s north-west. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Record rainfall has displaced 50,000 people from their homes in Sydney, with more than 150 evacuation orders and warnings remaining in place on Tuesday night as the wild weather headed north.

Parts of New South Wales have had more than 700mm of rainfall since the floods hit, while areas of the Illawarra have experienced record July rainfall in a matter of days.