Some residents across four Australian states will spend the final day of the year on high alert, with heavy rainfall tipped to create dangerous flood conditions.
Residents of low-lying areas of Menindee in far west New South Wales (NSW) near Broken Hill were urged to evacuate on Friday ahead of a flood peak expected to be higher than the previous 1976 record level.
Watch-and-act warnings were also issued for the nearby towns of Louth, Tilpa and Wilcannia.
In Victoria, severe thunderstorm warnings were in place for large parts of the state’s east, reaching from Sale in the south all the way to the NSW border and as far west as Shepparton….