Australia’s east coast is set to be lashed with intense rain, at its highest intensity in the coming days.
Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane are set to experience the worst of the wet conditions, although Darwin and Hobart will also have increased rainfall, the BOM says.
Between 10 to 30mm of rain is forecast for Sydney on Tuesday, increasing to 15 to 35mm on Wednesday.
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There is a 95 per cent chance of rain on both days.
The intense rain is set to settle down on Thursday and Friday, although it is predicted to increase again heading into the weekend.
Although less rainfall is predicted, there is still a 50 to 70 per cent chance of rain in Sydney from Saturday through to Monday.
The wet weather in Melbourne is set to gear up from Wednesday, with 10 to 25mm forecast and a 90 per cent chance of rain.
There is a 50 to 70 per cent chance of rain predicted from Thursday through to Saturday, with the wet weather set to subside afterwards.
Canberra is bracing for intense rain on Tuesday and Wednesday, with 15 to 30mm forecast on Tuesday and 25 to 60mm on Wednesday.
There is a 95 per cent chance of rain on both days.
The rainfall prediction drastically drops to just 6mm on Thursday, though there will still be a 70 per cent chance of rain.
A 50 per cent chance of rain is predicted from Friday to Sunday.
Brisbane is set to have its heaviest day of rain on Tuesday, with 2 to 20mm forecast and a 90 per cent chance of rain.
The river city is set to record up to 9mm on Wednesday, with a 70 per cent chance of rain.
Thursday is predicted to be a brief reprieve but rain will once more increase on the weekend.
At most, the city is set to have 15mm of rainfall, although there is a 50 to 80 per cent chance of rain predicted from Friday to Monday.
Severe weather for Darwin and Hobart
Although the increased rain is set to hit Australia’s largest cities the hardest, Hobart and Darwin are also in for some wet weather.
Hobart may have more rain from Wednesday, increasing to a 60 per cent chance on Thursday and predicted 15mm on Friday.
Darwin is set to cop the wet weather increase towards the weekend, then gradually reduce.
At its most intense, 6mm of rain will fall on Friday, and there is a 60 per cent chance of rain.
Floods, felled trees, airport chaos after SA storms
Wild storms have left thousands of homes without power, downed trees and flooded streets across Adelaide.
Scotch College south of the city recorded 75mm of rain in the 24 hours to 9am on Tuesday, while wind gusts of 72km/h were recorded at Adelaide airport.
Flights were grounded until 8.30am after lightning strikes prevented staff from stepping on to the tarmac to load and refuel aircraft.
The airport was still working through a backlog of delays, Adelaide Airport executive general manager Dermot O’Neill said.
“We have seen some delays to those first flights going out, which has unfortunately caused some corresponding delays to those first flights coming in,” he told ABC Radio.
Almost 5000 customers were still without power as of 10.30am local time, down from 14,000 earlier in the morning.
Severe thunderstorm warnings for heavy rainfall and damaging winds remained in place for the Adelaide Metropolitan, Mount Lofty Ranges, Riverland and Murraylands regions, as well as parts of Yorke Peninsula, Mid North, Kangaroo Island, North East Pastoral, Flinders and Upper South East districts.
SA SES State Duty Officer Brenton Clarke said requests for flood assistance were the most common calls emergency services were receiving.
“From just after 6am, with this severe rainfall that’s occurred over the metropolitan area, the number of jobs has skyrocketed and we’re now sitting on 161 requests for assistance,” he told Adelaide radio 5AA.
Houses were being inundated by water coming across roads and through roofs, Mr Clarke said.
The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting conditions to improve for the remainder of Tuesday, with Adelaide predicted to reach 21C with showers easing throughout the day.
– with AAP