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Recent climate events such as extremely high temperatures and widespread drought have focused government and public attention on the effects of climate change in Australia. [153] Rainfall in southwestern Australia has decreased by 10–20% since the 1970s, while southeastern Australia has also experienced a moderate decline since the 1990s. [150]
Recent climate events such as extremely high temperatures and widespread drought have focused government and public attention on the effects of climate change in Australia. [8] Rainfall in southwestern Australia has decreased by 10–20% since the 1970s, while southeastern Australia has also experienced a moderate decline since the 1990s. [5]
Australia portal; Weather portal; This category includes historic weather events which have occurred in Australia. This category includes floods caused by rain, but not floods caused simply by dam failures.
Sydney recorded its wettest March on record with the rain gauge picking up 554 mm (21.81 in) of rain, beating 521.4 mm (20.53 in) from 1942 – this also brought Sydney's annual total up to 1,076.2 mm (42.37 in), which is the highest January-to-March total in records that date back to 1859. [168]
Although low-pressure systems in February are not uncommon, the slow and westward moving nature of this particular system was extraordinary. The centre of the low developed and deepened over Melbourne with very little movement. The combination of extreme rainfall and lashing winds caused destruction.
Extreme rainfall on the east coast of Australia beginning on 18 March 2021 led to widespread flooding in New South Wales, affecting regions from the North Coast to the Sydney metropolitan area in the south.
EMSR567: Floods in Queensland, Australia (delineation maps) – Copernicus Emergency Management Service; Special Climate Statement 76 – Extreme rainfall and flooding in south-eastern Queensland and eastern New South Wales Bureau of Meteorology, 25 May 2022; Heather Faulkner Brisbane flood photographs, State Library of Queensland
Extreme rainfall on the east coast of Australia beginning on 18 March 2021 led to widespread flooding in New South Wales, affecting regions from the North Coast to the Sydney metropolitan area in the south.