Bureau of Meteorology predicts wet and wild weather for coming week

A number of states will cop a drenching with rain and storms to move throughout the country for the entirety of the week and into the weekend.

Sydney has shivered into the start of the week after a southerly change blew into town on Sunday ahead of a week’s worth of rain over the city.

The Bureau of Meteorology’s Jake Phillips said Monday was the coolest morning of the year so far, getting down to 12.2 degrees in the city and 10 degrees in Holsworthy in the southwest.

At 8am on Monday the temperature the CBD was 12.6 degrees but felt like a chilly 8.9 degrees, according to Weatherzone.

The coldest morning followed a day of torrential downpours on Sunday, with up to 44mm dumped across the Harbour City in what was its wettest day of 2021.

Mr Phillips said 23mm of rain fell up to 9am on Sunday and another 22mm was added in the 24 hours since.

Less than 1mm of rain is predicted on Monday but downpours are expected to return as the week stretches on, with up to 10mm on Wednesday and 20mm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Wet weather in Bondi Beach on Sunday the Australian east coast was battered with a torrential downpour. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Flavio Brancaleone

Despite a cold morning Monday is expected to be the most pleasant day of the week, Mr Phillips said.

“It will warm up a little bit with the max day temps hovering around the mid 20s but the showers will make a return,” he said.

“Particularly from Wednesday onwards it’s looking like there will be a few showers around.

“We had a pretty strong southerly change that brought a lot of cooler air. We’re still feeling the effects of that. Over the next few days the winds will start to shift to easterly, so that’s when we will see the rain return.”

Overall eastern Australia is in for a wet and stormy week as a rainband moves through NSW and Queensland and back to Victoria.

Rain and storms will move throughout the country for the entirety of the week and into the weekend, Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Dean Narramore said on Sunday.

After a wet Saturday for Victoria the wild weather moved through NSW on Sunday into Queensland.

It is expected to travel south back to NSW, bringing heavy falls, thunder, and lightning, he said.

“A band of rain and thunderstorms will move through NSW and into southern Queensland today,” he said on Sunday afternoon.

While the rain moves away from Victoria, cool to cold temperatures are expected to remain, he said.

On Monday and Tuesday showers and storms in the tropical north of the country are predicted, from southeast Queensland to the Kimberly in Western Australia.

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But on Tuesday the south of the country can look forward to dry and sunny conditions before rain returns to NSW.

“Onshore flow will increase on the NSW coast on Wednesday, causing showers and cooler conditions,” he said.

“Showers and storms with heavy falls will also spread across much of Queensland and inland NSW, and also continue across the tropical north,” he said.

Eastern Queensland and most of NSW will continue to be battered by rain and storms on Thursday, he predicted.

“Friday and across the weekend, showers and thunderstorms with locally heavy falls will spread west and south from Queensland into parts of eastern South Australia and much of NSW and Victoria,” he said.

Humid conditions are expected for eastern Australia on Friday and into the weekend, he said.

In Western Australia the mercury is set to soar with Perth expecting six consecutive days above 30 degrees.

The hottest days are expected to be on Friday and Saturday with a top temperature of 36C forecast, nearly eight degrees above the March average.