Inland sea swamps outback as SEQ set for 34C heat blast, severe storms
Stunning images have emerged from outback Queensland’s inland sea transformation as the South East braces for a week of wild storms and heatwave conditions.
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Stunning images have emerged from outback Queensland’s inland sea transformation as the South East braces for a week of wild storms and heatwave conditions.
A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for parts of the South East, with several regions set to be on high alert for ‘redeveloping’ threats throughout the evening.
BOM reveals why the biggest deluge since the 2022 floods wasn’t predicted earlier, with residents waiting hours for warnings.
The third Tropical Cyclone of the summer has made landfall on the Queensland coast triggering severe weather warnings for heavy rain and damaging winds.
Far north Queenslanders are back on flood watch as the region cops a 245mm+ drenching, with a monsoon trough bringing heavy rain and thunderstorms to still recovering residents.
Queensland could be in line for its second cyclone in less than a month with heavy rain expected to kick off as early as tomorrow in communities smashed by ex-tropical cyclone Jasper.
Record-high sea temperatures and the biggest volcanic eruption in 140 years could be behind El Niño’s failure to deliver what was predicted to be a dry Queensland summer.
A woman in Brisbane’s west has shared devastating footage of her home after it was smashed by a 131mm drenching on Tuesday, in a deluge she said was like nothing she’d seen before.
Electricity is expected to be restored to most homes and businesses still without power after the catastrophic Christmas night storms as early as tomorrow, despite fears the mammoth operation could take weeks.
Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate says parts of the Glitter Strip have been “basically obliterated” by the Christmas-New Year storms, leaving in their wake a “once-in-a-generation” clean-up with enough green waste to stack 80 football fields 2m high.
Thousands of Gold Coast residents and businesses hit hardest by the Christmas Day storm and subsequent deluge will have to wait until the weekend before their electricity is restored.
A Mary Valley farm owner has spoken about the ‘dramatic and traumatic’ carnage from a post-Christmas ‘mini tornado’ which threw chicken houses across paddocks and into each other. Watch the video
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