December 2023
Cairns floods break 46-year record, close airport
The state faces days of heavy rain after some areas were hit with totals of more than a metre, the city’s airport shut and water levels passed 1977 highs.
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- Duncan Murray
June 2023
Drought? Bushfires? Blackouts? July will tell on El Niño
“We’re leading into this event with record high ocean temperatures and that is largely taking a bit of a step into the unknown”, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
- Ben Potter