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The 2022 south eastern Australia floods are a series of floods that have occurred in south-eastern Australia [nb 1] since October 2022. [6] Some towns experienced the highest river peaks in decades, [7] and many places saw rivers peak multiple times. The floods were attributed to excess torrential rain caused by La Niña and a negative Indian ...
Floodwaters tore out a fence, undermined a deck and caked roads with mud, mobile home park residents said.
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 ...
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 ]
See dramatic photos, videos of flooding, fallen trees as SLO County gets hit by another storm. Sara Kassabian. January 9, 2023 at 12:43 PM. This is a developing story. ... USA TODAY. Coldplay's ...
Sediment pollution from the north Queensland floods washed into the waters of the Great Barrier Reef.In a media release, James Cook University’s TropWater department said the Burdekin River’s ...
1967 Brazil flood, mainly Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, flood and landslide Brazil: 1967 431 St. Francis Dam failure United States 1928 431 2015 Tamil Nadu floods Chennai, Cuddalore and Andhra Pradesh named 2015 South Indian floods: India: 2015 429 2002 Nepal flood, mainly occurred at Makwanpur, monssnal rain, flood, landslide Nepal: 2002 425
A cyclone in Northern Queensland killed 99 people over two days in mid March 1934. [50] A cyclone struck the Gold Coast on 20 February 1954. Four people were killed during the cyclone, [51] while a further 22 died in the resulting floods around Lismore in Northern New South Wales. [52]