Evacuation orders are in place for several areas around Sydney, with thousands of homes still without power after Sunday’s rainfall. Follow all today’s updates • Sydney’s Warragamba Dam levels surge to 62% capacity after torrential rain 1.58am GMT Do you remember this image taken by Australian photographer Matt Abbott for the New York Times at Lake Conjola on New Year’s Eve? It went around the world and became a symbol of the bushfire crisis.This is what some residents at Lake Conjola have woken up to this morning! @9NewsSyd pic.twitter.com/B9AxLXSv0c 1.49am GMT The water level in Warragamba Dam, the main water supply for Sydney, has increased by almost 20 percentage points in 24 hours, my colleague Naaman Zhou reports.On Sunday morning Warragamba was 43.8% full. On Monday morning it was at 61.8%. That’s 363,681ML flowing into Warragamba alone. Across the whole of Sydney’s catchment area, 512,452ML flowed into dams. Related: Sydney’s Warragamba Dam levels surge to 62% capacity after torrential rain Continue reading…
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