New South Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\nSenior meteorologist Edward Townsend-Medlock said more heavy rainfall was expected from Sydney\u2019s northern suburbs through to the Hunter coast on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithin that concentrated area is where you could get some of those more severe thunderstorm cells that we saw, for example, on the Central Coast,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
At least 750 SES volunteers were on the ground responding to weekend storm callouts, with the busiest units in the south coast, Illawarra, Sydney and Hunter regions.<\/p>\n
NSW SES spokeswoman Emily Barton said rain had been experienced \u201cfar and wide\u201d across the state.<\/p>\n
Crews would focus on the Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Sydney metropolitan area on Sunday as clean-up efforts continued, she said.<\/p>\n
Warnings remained in place for hazardous surf on the east coast at beaches stretching from Newcastle to Batemans Bay, as well as the Eden coast.<\/p>\n
A woman died during the storms on Saturday afternoon when a tree branch fell on her car on Macquarie Pass, south of Wollongong.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe woman was a driver in the vehicle when the incident happened,\u201d NSW police said.<\/p>\n
A man in the front seat passenger suffered minor injuries, and two passengers in the rear seats were not physically harmed.<\/p>\n
Queensland also copped a bout of wild weather as a band of thunderstorms rolled across the south-east, dumping up to 60mm and leaving about 11,000 properties with power.<\/p>\n
More than 2,000 properties are still without power in Laidley and Brightview, in Queensland\u2019s Lockyer Valley region after wild weather took roof\u2019s off homes and brought down trees.<\/p>\n
In Victoria, sunny skies were expected on the first day of the Australian Open\u2019s main draw.<\/p>\n
Melbourne was set to reach a high of 29C on Sunday, while Adelaide was expected to be a scorcher with a top of 36C.<\/p>\n
Storms and heavy rain were forecast for Darwin, with a high of 31C.<\/p>\n
Perth was set to reach 27C, Brisbane 30C and Hobart 21C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s east coast is being smashed by summer storms as residents are told to evacuate. An emergency warning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-420032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}