Australia floods live updates: NSW and Qld weather warnings, heavy rain and road closures

More torrential rain and flooding predicted on Australia's east coast, with 18,000 people evacuated. Follow all the latest news and updates, live

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• How three weather systems are crashing together
• Graphs show how extreme NSW's flooding and rainfall is
• Today's the day': the miracle wedding flood waters couldn't stop
• Is flooding a year after bushfires more evidence of climate change?

7.07am GMT

OK well that was another rough day, but it appears there's sun on the horizon, both figuratively and literally.

Here's a quick summary of everything that happened today:

6.47am GMT

Some graphics now, to try and capture just the extent of this disaster.

The first is a cumulative rainfall chart that firstly and most obviously shows just how wet the first couple of months of 2021 have been: