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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Michael Howie

Sydney soaked by wettest year on record...with nearly three months to spare

Sydney has been soaked by its wettest year on record with almost three months of expected above-average rain to spare.

Australia’s biggest city beat its 1950 record of 2,194mm (86.4 inches) at 12.30pm on Thursday after 27.2mm (1.07in) of rain fell at the Observatory Hill rain gauge during the morning, the country’s Bureau of Meteorology said. Records at Observatory Hill go back to 1859.

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