By Bonnie Malkin, Sydney24 Jan 2011 Australia is facing more flood chaos as a ‘floodwater lake’ the size of Luxembourg is bearing down on scores of towns in the southern Australian state of Victoria, threatening tens of thousands of homes. Over the past two weeks, swollen rivers following torrential rains have merged to create a […]
By Nichola Saminather; editors: Paul Tighe, Suresh SeshadriJanuary 23, 2011, 8:03 AM EST an. 24 (Bloomberg) — Australia faces an “enormous” economic impact from the worst floods in Queensland state in almost 40 years, with coal exports likely to be one of the “biggest casualties,” Treasurer Wayne Swan said. “Queensland’s rapid development has meant that […]
23 January 2011 (BBC) – Parts of the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria are braced for the approach of a giant lake of floodwater 55 miles (90km) long, as Australia’s severe flooding problems continue. Deputy PM Wayne Swan said the recent floods would rank as one of Australia’s most costly natural disasters ever. More than […]
Caption by Holli RiebeekJanuary 12, 2011 Torrential rain pounded southeast Queensland, Australia, on January 10, 2011, bringing devastating flash floods to several communities just west of Brisbane. This image, made from the Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) based on data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), shows the intense rain on January 10. The storm […]
MELBOURNE, 21 Jan 2011 (AFP) — Australia’s flood crisis deepened Saturday with a giant “inland sea” threatening more communities in the southeast, as officials continued the grim search for bodies in worst-hit Queensland. Sandbagging was underway in some villages in Victoria, where weeks of floods have affected as much as one-third of the state, with […]
Caption by William L. Stefanov, NASA-JSCJanuary 18, 2011 This detailed astronaut photograph illustrates flooding in suburbs of the Brisbane, Australia metropolitan region. The Brisbane area experienced catastrophic flooding following unusually heavy rainfall on January 10, 2011. With surficial soils already saturated from previous rainfall events, eastward-draining surface flow caused the Brisbane River to flood—inundating an […]
Meteorologists warned Australians six months ago to prepare for a soaking. And nobody did a thing … By Germaine Greer, The GuardianSaturday 15 January 2011 What’s going on in Australia is rain. British people might think that they’re rain experts. Truth is that they hardly know what rain is. The kind of cold angel sweat […]
By Ed Davies; additional reporting by Rob Taylor in CANBERRA and Amy Pyett in SYDNEY; editing by Rob Taylor and Mark BendeichThu Jan 13, 2011 6:49pm EST BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters) – Australia’s third-largest city began cleaning up stinking mud and debris in flood-hit areas on Friday, but whole suburbs remained submerged, smaller towns braced […]
STOCKHOLM, 13 January 2011 (AP) — Though you can’t make a direct link between Australia’s killer floods and climate change, they do hold a warning for the future: Scientists predict such extreme weather events will increase both in intensity and frequency as the planet warms. Raging floodwaters have swamped thousands of homes and businesses in […]
Issued at 6:45 am EST Friday 14 January 2011 Station details:Station Number: 540198 Name: Brisbane R at City Gauge # Owner: SEQWCO:143838 Flood levels: Minor: 1.70 Moderate: 2.60 Major: 3.50 Latest River Heights for Brisbane R at City Gauge #540198 Technorati Tags: Australia,flood,monsoon,global warming,climate change
