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A woman died during the storms on Saturday afternoon when a tree branch fell on her car on Macquarie Pass, south of Wollongong.
NSW Police said:
The woman was a driver in the vehicle when the incident happened.
A man in the front seat passenger suffered minor injuries, and two passengers in the rear seats were not physically harmed.
Evacuation order on Sydney’s northern beaches as Australia’s east coast smashed by stormy weather
Australia’s east coast is being smashed by summer storms as residents are told to evacuate.
An emergency warning was in place for Sydney’s northern beaches on Sunday morning, with residents at Narrabeen Lagoon and surrounds told to leave.
More than a dozen people have been rescued across Sydney, with cars submerged and homes flooded.
At Great Mackerel Beach, in the northern beaches, a landslide damaged numerous homes with at least one woman injured.
The storm system also claimed the life of a woman on Saturday after a tree branch fell on her car and State Emergency Service crews received more than 800 calls for help after heavy rain lashed New South Wales.
Senior meteorologist Edward Townsend-Medlock said more heavy rainfall was expected from Sydney’s northern suburbs through to the Hunter coast on Sunday morning.
Within that concentrated area is where you could get some of those more severe thunderstorm cells that we saw, for example, on the Central Coast.
For more on this story, read the full report with Guardian Australia:
Good morning
And welcome to another Sunday morning Guardian live blog.
Powerful storms have lashed Sydney, with some residents of the northern beaches told to evacuate. More than a dozen people have been rescued across the city, as a landslide injured a woman and damaged multiple homes.
A woman was killed in the storms on Saturday when a tree branch fell her car at Macquarie Pass and a man in the front passenger seat suffered minor injuries. The New South Wales SES recorded more than 800 calls for help.
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