Parts of the Mid North Coast in New South Wales have experienced some whopping rainfall totals, resulting in significant rising of creek levels, local road closures and flooding of low-lying bridges.  

In the 24 hours to 9am Sunday, multiple areas had totals exceeding 100mm, including: 

•  Killabakh (119mm)  - highest 24-hour rainfall since July 2022 
• Comboyne Public School (124mm) 
• Taree Airport (136mm) - highest 24-hour rainfall since July 2022 
• Old Bar (137mm) - highest 24-hour rainfall since July 2022 
• Mooral Creek (222mm) 

Image: 24-hour rainfall totals (mm) to 9am AEDT Sunday 11th February about the northeast NSW coast (Himawari Satellite imagery). 

A high-pressure system is sitting over the Tasman Sea is expected to linger into early-to-mid week, setting up a persistent regime of a deep, humid easterly flow extending past the Queensland border. 

Forecasts are predicting further potential for enhanced rain & storms throughout Sunday afternoon and into Monday. 

The image below shows the ACCESS-G3 model displaying relative humidity (high values in green) overlapped by 700hPa wind barbs (black). To give you an idea about the depth of this moist flow, that's about a 3-kilometre vertical range up from the surface. 

Image: 700hPa winds and relative humidity about northeast NSW at 5pm AEDT time on Sunday 11th February using the ACCESS-G3 model. 

The accumulated rainfall totals show the coastal areas in the path of this stream of moisture, with some areas expected to receive up to 60-80mm of rainfall cumulatively until late Monday evening. 

Image: Accumulated rainfall (mm) until Monday 11pm AEDT using the ACC-C Brisbane model. 

Be sure to keep up to date with the latest warnings here and to check the forecasts throughout the day.