Wild weather: NSW battered by flooding and howling winds – in pictures

Heavy rains caused flooding and three evacuation orders on the New South Wales south coast over the past three days as howling winds and damaging surf battered much of the state's coastline. Damaging winds with gusts of more than 90km/h were recorded along the Sydney and Illawarra coast, reaching 93km/h at Norah Head on the Central Coast. Waves also peaked at just over five metres in Sydney with much of the coastline from Ulladulla to Port Macquarie warned of hazardous surf. Heavy rains caused flooding with the Shoalhaven River at Nowra peaking at 4.13m on Monday - its highest level since 1991.

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