Sydney is waking to carnage from the Northern Beaches to the south-west but rain is set to subside for a long overdue sunny day - before rolling back in on the weekend.
More than 310 schools have been forced to close after wild weather wreaked havoc across Sydney and surrounding NSW regions - flooding entire suburbs and forcing major roads to close.
Victorians celebrated the further loosening of restrictions on Friday night while at least 10 cases have been linked to a COVID-19 cluster at a pub in Sydney’s east.