{"id":515,"date":"2019-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/uncategorized\/flood-warnings-and-grass-fires-across-weekend-unpredictable-weather-hits-central-coast\/"},"modified":"2019-09-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T14:00:00","slug":"flood-warnings-and-grass-fires-across-weekend-unpredictable-weather-hits-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/lifestyle\/flood-warnings-and-grass-fires-across-weekend-unpredictable-weather-hits-central-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood warnings and grass fires across the weekend as unpredictable weather hits the Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/flodding_central_coast.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Central Coast was battered by over 200m of rain.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was a wild weekend of weather across the Central Coast with heavy rains and flood warnings sweeping across the region on Saturday, soon followed by a hazardous grass fire less than twenty-four hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Friday and Saturday saw almost 200mm of rain fall in Gosford and 157mm in Wyong with max wind gusts rising to 46km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden rainfall resulted in road closures across the Central Coast with flooding on roads such as Anzac Road in Tuggerah, Burns Road in Ourimbah, and the Central Coast Highway at Foresters Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Large trees contributed to closures with reports of fallen trees across roads in Wyoming and on the Central Coast Highway at Kariong.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2019-09-02_09_17_43-63_nsw_central_coast_incident_alerts_news_information_-_home.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Facebook &#8211; Central Coast Incidents, Alerts, News and Information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Power outages were also experienced with a large outage in stretching from Ourimbah to Holgate occurring on Friday and a smaller outage in Woy Woy and Blackwall on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Gosford and Wyong SES units received over 200 calls for assistance across the weekend with extra storm teams required from Sydney and Newcastle for clean-up duties on Saturday and Sunday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2019-09-02_09_18_41-63_nsw_central_coast_incident_alerts_news_information_-_home.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Facebook &#8211; NSW SES &#8211; Gosford Unit\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The rain subsided by Sunday morning, however the unpredictable weather continued with warmer temperatures causing a grass fire along the M1 Motorway in Mount White.<\/p>\n<p>The fire resulted in warning to drivers to expect delays and to drive with caution with smoke affecting visibility.<\/p>\n<p>The weather is expected to calm across the Coast for this week with sunny skies until Thursday and a small chance of rain on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/articles\/central-coast-bushfire-season-start-month-early\"> Central Coast bushfire season to start one month early\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Written by Kate Stevens <br \/> Images: Facebook<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Coast was battered by over 200m of rain.\u00a0 It was a wild weekend of weather across the Central Coast with heavy rains and flood warnings sweeping across the region on Saturday, soon followed by a hazardous grass fire less than twenty-four hours later. 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