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Laurel Mountain is the fourth highest peak in Oregon's Central Coast Range with an elevation of 3,592 feet (1,095 m). The peak is located in Polk County west of the city of Dallas . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1997 it was labeled the wettest place in Oregon, [ 5 ] and in 1996 it set an all-time calendar year rainfall record for the contiguous United States ...
Mount Bellenden Ker is the second-highest mountain in Queensland, Australia, with a height of 1,593 metres (5,226 ft). It is named after the botanist John Bellenden Ker Gawler . Located 39 km (24 mi) south of Cairns , and near Babinda , it is adjacent to Mount Bartle Frere , the state's highest peak, part of the Bellenden Ker Range , also known ...
Residents in Hughenden, Queensland, were on high alert on February 7 as the Flinders River broke its banks and the town was inundated by water and resulting debris.The river reached 4.4 metres at ...
Although no rain gauge exists on the mountain, data at nearby Mount Bellenden Ker suggest an annual average rainfall of around 8,000 millimetres (310 in), [6] and an estimated potential maximum as high as 17,000 mm (670 in), both of which would make the mountain one of the wettest places in the world. Even in what constitutes the "dry" in most ...
Richmond, Virginia, also recorded its wettest December following this week's storm.As of Saturday, 8.87 inches had fallen, edging out the old high water mark (pun intended) of 8.16 inches from 2009.
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Oregon has a wide range of temperatures, though the extremes are rare. [3] The highest was recorded on July 29, 1898, in Hermiston, Oregon, and again on August 10, 1898, in both Pendleton, Oregon and Redmond, Oregon, and once more on June 29, 2021, at Pelton Dam. All are east of the Cascades, when the temperature reached 119 °F (48 °C). [6]
Babinda Boulders, officially called the Boulders Scenic Reserve [1] but known locally as Babinda Boulders or simply the Boulders, is a public recreation reserve alongside Babinda Creek, managed by the Cairns Regional Council and adjacent to the Wooroonooran National Park in far north Queensland, Australia.