article_snippet.sent: It's Storm to hit the NSW coast in a decade, but what everyone in the region wants to know is why no warning was given that no warning was going to be this bad.
article_snippet.sent: Climate specialist Don White from WeatherWatch Australia confirmed that severe weather warnings were issued by the Bureau of Meteorology 
article_snippet.sent: Powerful winds on Monday night and Tuesday morning also brought down scaffolding (right) in Edgecliff, in Sydney's eastern suburbs .
article_snippet.sent: A chart from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology shows the forecast for wind speed across New South Wales on Tuesday night .
article_snippet.sent: The forecast was basically wet and windy
article_snippet.sent: Asked on ABC’s 7.30 programme if warning systems had failed, NSW State Emergency Services deputy commissioner Steve Pearce said: 'a weather system that changed very rapidly did change very rapidly. '
article_snippet.sent: This was an east coast low initially which are always historically very severe weather system however they come in and they go very quickly, This didn't.
article_snippet.sent: A radar loop (left) and a cloud map (right) show the East Coast Low weather system causing gales and storm force winds .
article_snippet.sent: The cyclone strength winds currently battering the NSW coast are being caused by an intense low-pressure system known as an East Coast Low.
article_snippet.sent: The stormy weather system,  formed in the Tasman Sea, hasn't hit NSW this strong since 2007 and is expected to be one of the longest lasting ever.
article_snippet.sent: They are characterised by gales or storm force winds that can damage buildings, fell trees and powerlines, cause powerful surf that can damage the NSW coast and, in some cases, run ships aground.
article_snippet.sent: ’ East Coast Lows draw strong, moisture-laden winds across the NSW coast, which cause heavy rain to fall when They are uplifted by the hills and ranges that run parallel to the NSW coast.
article_snippet.sent: The SES is preparing for damaging winds to hit parts of NSW over the next two days .
article_snippet.sent: The Bureau of Meteorology has been issued for Sydney Closed Waters, the Hunter Coast, Sydney Coast, Illawarra Coast, Batemans Coast and Eden Coast .
article_snippet.sent: Rain and damaging winds averaging 55 to 70 km/h with gusts to about 100 km are forecast to develop along the coastal fringe of the Sydney Metropolitan, Hunter and Illawarra regions .