99% of the time, aircraft are diverted off their usual SID due to weather, so are given an assignned heading on takeoff. Usually, off 16R, they are assigned heading 170 and depart to the south, but there was significant weather around Cronulla and Bate Bay at the time, resulting in the departures to the south-west
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