Prepare to be blown away! Massive weather bombshell for South East Qld
You won’t believe it until you see it. Prepare to be blown away, it’s finally happening. It’s the weather bombshell South East Queensland has waited weeks to read!
You won’t believe it until you see it. Prepare to be blown away, it’s finally happening. It’s the weather bombshell South East Queensland has waited weeks to read!
Could you be suffering from seasonal affective disorder due to the recent lack of sunshine across South East Queensland? Psychiatrists reveal the truth.
More than 80mm of rain could fall across parts of South East Queensland over the next 72 hours before a brutal cold snap driven by a “polar surge” sends temperatures plummeting.
Queensland is set to experience its third consecutive year of La Nina, with a ‘rare double’ of climate drivers ensuring the state gets no reprieve from drenching rain.
Hundreds of Townsville residents could have lost their lives if not for the rapid mobilisation of the army’s 2RAR (Amphib).
Struggling Queensland farmers have received another devastating blow to their livelihood with floodwaters wreaking havoc on crops and livestock, with one farmer revealing he lost 70 per cent of his herd. WARNING: Distressing pictures.
The monsoon trough that has flooded north and western Queensland could become a cyclone as it hovers over the Coral Sea, where conditions that would allow the system to intensify are “perfect”, forecasters say.
As the immediate danger from Townsville’s flood disaster fades, it has been replaced by another more insidious threat.
Townsville’s catastrophic floods were five times larger than initially thought, with data revealing the disaster was greater than a one-in-500-year event.
The Bureau of Meteorology says tonight will be the last night of significiant and dangerous rain in the Townsville region.
The skies have opened over southeast Queensland, with rain falling after the region recorded its driest December on record before enduring a dry January. FORECAST
While tears of despair are being shed in Townsville amid record flooding, home inundation and emergency rescues, it’s a very different story across other parts of the north.
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