‘WEATHER BOMB’ ALARM

WEATHER experts have warned NSW residents to stay away from the coast during the next couple of days to avoid life-threatening risks, with damaging surf and winds exceeding 100km/h set to batter the state.

Sydney was expected to receive almost an entire month’s worth of rain on Tuesday, with urgent warnings also in place from Byron Bay down to Eden.

There were also fears of flooding for inland NSW, on the other side of the Great Dividing Range.

The warnings come as NSW heads into a “weather bomb”, with a low-pressure system continuing to deepen at an unusually rapid pace.

“Sydney and the adjacent Central Coast and Illawarra regions can expect the worst of the weather from this system,” Sky News Australia chief meteorologist Tom Saunders said on Monday.