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:

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Three people are dead after a light plane crash at Shellharbour Airport in New South Wales. | Sky News Australia

After 14 months of uncertainty, the New South Wales Premier today abandoned plans to merge Shellharbour and Wollongong Councils, along with six other pending merger proposals in regional areas. The news was met with cheering and champagne in the Shellharbour Council building, as Mayor Marianne Saliba celebrated with her colleagues. | WIN News Illawarra