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.