Groundhog Day: a stubborn bout of rain is coming to Sydney

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Summer temperatures and sparkling skies connected Monday volition headdress disconnected a week-long tally of glorious schoolhouse vacation upwind earlier a acold upwind strategy delivers a rut of cool, bedewed days that could intensify into dense downpours astatine the extremity of the week.

A sunny Sydney time connected Monday volition deed 28 degrees earlier a chill alteration overnight brings a precocious accidental of rainfall and maximum temperatures of 21 degrees from Tuesday done to the weekend.

Swimmers leap disconnected Giles Baths successful Coogee connected Sunday.

“We’re successful for Groundhog Day, really, from Tuesday done Friday,” elder Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Jake Phillips said.

“We’ll person cloudy conditions and precise small variation. That’s due to the fact that the upwind is going to beryllium driven by a precise slow-moving, beardown high-pressure strategy that’s going to travel crossed down this chill change.

“What that means for america is reasonably caller winds crossed the seashore and cool, cloudy and showery weather.”

While the bureau expects wide upwind for the remainder of Sunday, immoderate parts of the metropolis could stay hazy arsenic the NSW Rural Fire Service performs hazard simplification burns.

The NSW RFS has burned disconnected thousands of hectares this month, including successful an country adjacent Warragamba Dam.

Firefighters are capitalising connected unchangeable conditions to pain disconnected 10,000 hectares crossed the Sutherland Shire, the Blue Mountains, the Hills District and Hornsby and expect fume to linger until midweek.

“Smoke from planned hazard simplification burns being undertaken by occurrence agencies and onshore managers contiguous and aboriginal adjacent week whitethorn settee successful areas including the South Coast, Snowy Monaro, Snowy Valleys, Narrabri, Warrumbungle and Sydney regions,” the RFS said connected Sunday.

The bureau expects betwixt 15 and 25 millimetres of rainfall each time from Tuesday, with the imaginable of heavier showers connected the weekend.

“Things could get absorbing astatine the extremity of the week,” Phillips said.

“Perhaps adjacent arsenic aboriginal arsenic Friday, but much apt connected Saturday and Sunday, we could spot a trough processing implicit the authorities that could bring dense rainfall to immoderate areas.”

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