Sydney records wettest start to a year ever as BoM warns of more flooding to come
by Peter Hannam from Environment | The Guardian on (#5WXEF)
With soil already waterlogged and dams at capacity even small amounts of rainfall could be disastrous, experts say
A trickle in Sydney's rain gauge on Wednesday meant the city is yet to get a dry day in the past 16, extending the record wet start to any year for the Harbour City.
The 0.2mm reading so far on Wednesday - the smallest measure the Bureau of Meteorology counts as rain - nudged the rainfall total at Sydney's Observatory Hill to 872.6mm.
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