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Piers Morgan has mocked Australia’s rainy skies after arriving Down Under to party with News Corp media tycoon Lachlan Murdoch – and warned Aussies can ‘never take the moral high ground’ about British weather again.
The British TV host, 56, flew into Sydney on Monday night with Murdoch on his $90million private jet for an event to celebrate the 25th anniversary of News Corp-owned network Sky News Australia.
Morgan has signed a deal reportedly worth $95million with News Corp to continue his war against ‘cancel culture‘ on a new show, which will be broadcast on Sky News in Australia and Fox in the US.
The former Daily Mail Australia editor-at-large was quick to poke fun at the rain that has caused widespread flooding in NSW and Queensland this week.
Piers Morgan flew into Australia on Monday night with News Corp co-chairman Lachlan Murdoch on his $90million private jet. The 56-year-old is pictured enjoying a cocktail during a refuelling stop in Hawaii
Morgan was quick to poke fun at the rain that has caused widespread flooding in NSW and Queensland this week
‘No offence, Australia… but never take the high moral ground with UK summer weather again,’ he wrote on Instagram next to Sydney’s forecast for Thursday.
Morgan was referring to the UK’s famously underwhelming summers, which often are washed out by rain despite forecasters predicting sunny skies.
Australia is known for its glorious summer weather but the forecast for the Harbour City showed a 90 per cent chance of lightning every day until Tuesday.
Meteorologists have warned downpours and storms are likely to continue across Queensland and NSW in the coming days, bringing danger of further flash flooding and rivers overflowing.
In south-east Queensland, the search is continuing for a motorcyclist who went missing during the height of flooding.
The 54-year-old man’s motorcycle helmet was found near Gympie on Wednesday and there are fears he was swept away while trying to negotiate the deluge around Cedar Pocket.
The body of a 63-year-old woman was found submerged in a vehicle that had been swept into raging stormwaters west of Eumundi on the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday morning.
Lachlan Murdoch pictured with his wife Sarah. Morgan, 56, flew into Sydney on Monday night with Murdoch on his $90million private jet for an event to celebrate Sky News Australia’s 25th anniversary
Latest star-signing Piers Morgan (pictured) joined his new boss for the flight and was spotted first off the jet ahead of starting his new show on Fox
News Corp chief Lachlan Murdoch (pictured) flew back into Australia with an entourage on his private jet
Up to 600mm of rain fell across the southeast during the day and at least another 300mm is expected on Thursday, with a raft of severe weather warnings issued.
Forecasters said NSW’s northeast is likely to bear the brunt of the ongoing wet weather.
‘We are looking really closely up at the Northern Rivers and near the Queensland border where we are already seeing some thunderstorms and heavy rainfall accumulations,’ the Bureau of Meteorology’s Gabrielle Woodhouse said on Wednesday, warning of potential flash flooding and rising river levels.
Meteorologists have warned downpours and storms are likely to continue across Queensland and NSW in the coming days. Pictured is a pedestrian walking in the rain in Sydney on Wednesday
The ferry terminal at Parramatta Wharf is seen almost submerged by water on Tuesday afternoon
Flooding along the Cooks River at Marrickville in Sydney’s inner west on Tuesday
‘We’re going to see these rainfall totals really start to build up.’
Slow-moving storms could translate into more heavy rainfall for residents along the southern NSW coastline and the northern inland region, she said.
‘It’s a dynamic situation. The main thing is it’s going to remain wet even though we will see the conditions ease off in the northeast on Friday,’ Ms Woodhouse said, adding rainfall is likely to shift southwards over the weekend.
Weatherzone, a weather monitoring service, reiterated the prediction of ‘wet and stormy weather’ persisting ‘into Thursday, Friday and possibly Saturday’ across northeast NSW and southeast Queensland, due to a trough passing over the region.
Source: DailyMail
