Backyards become lakes as Sydney storm dumps up to 30 mm in an hour

Rain has now been recorded for the eighth straight day in Sydney, but the heaviest deluge of the prolonged wet spell struck parts of the city’s west and south around 5:30 pm on Thursday evening.

In just over an hour, from around 5 pm to just after 6 pm, 30.2 mm of rain fell in Canterbury, around…