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The floods have created dangers beyond the rising waters with crocodile sightings reported in flooded streets, with Queensland’s Department of Environment warning that the reptiles are likely to ...
Flooding has hit large parts of the North Queensland coast since Friday, with the town of Ingham and the nearby city of Townsville heavily impacted. Residents in low-lying coastal suburbs and ...
On Sunday, the government agency said the ex-cyclone was still sitting over the coast and issued marine wind, flood and severe storm warnings for different parts of Queensland until Monday night ...
The 2019 Townsville flood was a major flood event that occurred in the city of Townsville and surrounding areas, on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. [1] Townsville has endured around 20 major flooding events since colonial settlement in the 1860s, but the 2019 event was one of the worst natural disasters to ever impact the region. [2]
Townsville flood: Queensland 5 [26] February 2020: Widespread flooding in Sydney basin and the Blue Mountains, flooding in central west to the north of NSW and flooding caused by Tropical Cyclone Damien in Karratha: NSW, WA: 0: March 2021 Widespread flooding in the Sydney basin and the Mid North Coast of NSW (2021 eastern Australia floods).
The flooding was the result of a low pressure system over Queensland's southern coast that dragged in moisture from the Coral Sea in the north, raising it over the Queensland coastline. The area of colder air higher in the atmosphere which the low-pressure system travelled in, thus making the atmosphere unstable and permitting moisture to be ...
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The Queensland floods were followed by the 2011 Victorian floods which saw more than fifty communities in western and central Victoria also grapple with significant flooding. On 26 February 2021 the result of legal action, started in 2014 and won in 2019, was a partial settlement of A$440 million in compensation for thousands of flood victims ...