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31/1/2024: For the second time in 2 years, local residents Margaret and Gary Merrick in their lounge after their home was flooded on their properties in Bray Park after flooding rains fell in the area, Brisbane. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/Courier Mail

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‘We are gutted’: Flood-smashed suburb calls for home buyback

Residents in a Brisbane suburb smashed again by major flooding this week are calling for the government to consider the area in a buyback scheme.

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Heavy rain caused dangerous flash flooding north of Brisbane.

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‘Record’ 350mm rain bomb worse than 2011, clean-up may take months

Queensland communities are facing a mammoth clean-up after downpours of up to 350mm – caused by conditions worse than those in the infamous 2011 and 2022 floods – inundated homes.

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Road Bridge at Narda Lagoon on Rosewood-Laidley Rd, Laidley

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Full list: Road closures due to flash flooding, emergency alerts, school closures

More than 70 roads across Queensland were closed due to flash flooding, including dozens across the southeast on Tuersday after a 300mm deluge. Emergency alerts are also active.

Streets, parks underwater as coast hit with torrential downpour

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Streets, parks underwater as coast smashed by rain

The Sunshine Coast has been hit with a torrential downpour with some areas recording more than 150mm in less than five hours. Here’s the latest.

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Lightning cracks as a large thunder storm moves in on Brisbane from the west, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. The storm produced 5-10mm of rain. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

45mm in 30 minutes: Big falls as storms move across southern Qld

The Bureau of Meteorology is continuing to update storm warnings across parts of southern Queensland, with huge downpours recorded in some places and other areas still under threat of heavy rain and flash flooding.

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A State Emergency Service (SES) crew motors past a flood gauge on the swollen Balonne river in St George, south-western Queensland, Wednesday, February 26, 2020. The Balonne river is expected to break its banks and peak over 12 metres on Thursday, causing floods. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

Plea for $200m fix to state’s flood warning system

As parts of Queensland once again go under water, there are urgent pleas for an upgrade to the state’s patchy flood warning system.

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Brisbane and South East Queensland is forecast to get upwards of 100mm of rain this weekend.

Tropical storm to dump 100mm on South East Qld this weekend

A tropical storm surging across Queensland is expected to dump more than 100mm of rain on the state’s southeast this weekend.

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Temps hit 40C, warnings remain after cyclone

Temperatures have reached 40C in several parts of Queensland as parts of the state swelter through the hottest day of the year so far.

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Norfolk Island residents are bracing for wild weather as Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle approaches. Picture: Liz Hewson/Facebook

Norfolk Island on cyclone ‘red alert’, huge swell for SEQ

Three-metre swells generated by Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle are set to smash South East Queensland while Norfolk Island has been put on ‘red alert’ as the storm fast approaches.

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Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle has developed in a severe category 3 system. Picture: Windy

165km/h winds: Gabrielle becomes category 3, as SEQ braces for heatwave

Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle has intensified and is officially a category 3 storm, with wind gusts of up to 165km/h. It comes as the South East brace for more extreme heat this weekend.

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Screenshot of WindyTV tracking cyclone off Qld coast taken 4pm Feb 8 2023. Picture: WindyTV

Cyclone Gabrielle moves up a notch, set to hit category 3 by Friday

Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle has hit category two, and is expected to reach category three on Friday, meteorologists warn.

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A cyclone is expected to form off Queensland on Friday. Picture: BOM

Cyclone forms: Gabrielle arrives as cruise ship turned back

Cyclone Gabrielle has formed off the Queensland coast, with new details on its predicted path revealed as a cruise ship has been turned back due to the threat of the approaching storm.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 26, 2021: Exteriors and signage of the Westfield shopping centre in Chermside which has some Covid 19 exposure sites within the complex. Picture: NCA NewsWire / John Gass

‘Like a sauna’: Aircon fail at major centre amid sticky heatwave

People hoping to escape the heatwave in one of Brisbane’s biggest shopping centres have been met with “sauna-like” conditions, after the city sweated through apparent “feels like” temperatures in the mid-30s overnight.

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South East Queensland is sweltering through a extreme heatwave today with temperatures to hit 37C. Picture: Supplied

Feels like 42.5C: Qld heatwave goes from extreme to officially bonkers

Queensland has scorched on Friday amid a tropical heatwave with the apparent temperature hitting 42.5C, thousands of homes losing power at the worst possible time and a night of 30C temperatures on the cards.

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