Water levels exceeded the highest tide of the year last night around 8:30pm.
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Destructive 100km/h wind gusts struck the entire coastline where surf conditions remained risky and gusts high, BoM said.
Police were going door to door in the Northern Beaches, where huge surf was also causing widespread coastal erosion.
Narrabeen-Collaroy beach in Sydney’s north, pictured on Sunday morning.
Further south, the Coogee Surf Club was severely damaged as waves of 8m pounded the building, knocking out windows and walls, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. “The boatshed where we store all our equipment has been destroyed”, club captain Tass Karozis told the Herald. It is expected to move out to sea on Monday afternoon.
“Sydney is seeing some of the heaviest totals”, a Bureau of Meteorology spokesman told AAP.
The weather wreaked havoc over the weekend in NSW with heavy rain and destructive winds.
Hundreds of people were evacuated from homes across NSW and motorists trapped on roads had to be rescued as floodwaters rose, the state emergency service said.
Amy Lesac posted: “A flood map right before a storm is a pretty silly idea when people are quickly scrolling, not reading fully, and already on high alert/hysteria due to storm warnings”.
Overnight, SES crews were searching floodwaters in Leppington in Sydney’s south-west over concerns that a auto disappeared into the rising water.
“We were lucky I think that there was no major damage, and we were really pleased with the messaging that went out to the community because they did heed most of the warnings – we only had a few people out in the flooded waters”.
Between 70 and 90mm fell across Sydney yesterday causing evacuations in low-lying northern and southwestern suburbs.
Power was slowly being restored to 30,000 NSW homes blacked out by the severe weather.
A minor flood warning has been issued for the Georges River in Sydney as the city is set to cop more pounding rain throughout the day, with predictions of 100mm of rain – and up to 200mm on the Illawarra escarpment.
Intense storms left more than 28,500 homes without power in Sydney and on the Central Coast, after belting Queensland late on Friday.
The maps says anyone in the affected red zones, including Sydney Harbour, The Rocks, Millers Point, Pyrmont, Darling Harbour, Kirribilli and Double Bay, would be under threat and need to flee for higher ground.
“Over the next 12 hours or so our focus will be on Hawkesbury Nepean system and whether or not we’ll lose access to some road networks in the western part out towards Penrith”, SES Deputy Commissioner Mark Morrow said.
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In Queensland, the weather has eased after the southeast of the state copped a soaking of up to 430mm of rain on Saturday. We have also got extremely high tides so that adds to a very hard mix.
