NEW SOUTH WALES WEATHER WARNINGS UPDATE Thursday 15 January 2026 – Evening NSW is now under a major severe weather outbreak with dangerous thunderstorms, flash flooding risk, damaging winds, marine gales and hazardous surf all active simultaneously. This is a high impact system. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING – VERY DANGEROUS For parts of Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Sydney Basin, Illawarra and South Coast. A very dangerous thunderstorm is currently near Kangaroo Valley and Fitzroy Falls producing:

Both New South Wales and Victoria have had severe weather warnings throughout the day, with Victoria's Surf Coast experiencing the worst flooding since the floods of 2010. The nearby town of Lorne has had over 170mm of rain since 9am, more than four times what the area would see on average in January. #flood #flashfood #greatoceanroad #victoria #nsw | 7NEWS Melbourne

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