With heavy rain continuing to fall in Northern NSW, motorists travelling on Waterfall Way, Dorrigo, have been left to find an alternate route as Newell Falls overflows onto the road.
There are flood evacuation warnings further North: t.co/vxvOuy5PXv #9News pic.twitter.com/9yEhVg1INF
— 9News Queensland (@9NewsQueensland) December 15, 2020
Severe storm brings massive rains to Queensland and NSW, Australia
An intense low-pressure trough off the coast of southeast Australia has brought torrential rains, floods, damaging winds, and dangerous waves to southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales over the weekend, with authorities describing the impacts as similar to that of a Category 1 cyclone. While the threat has eased on Monday, December 14, severe thunderstorm and flood warnings remain in force.
In Queensland, up to 738 mm (29 inches) of rain fell in Upper Springbrook a 72-hour period to Monday, including 323 mm (13 inches) in six hours overnight, from December 12 to 13, triggering coastal flooding…
“Many of the impacts from this weather event will be similar to a category-one cyclone event,” Queensland emergency services minister Mark Ryan told ABC…
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Commissioner Greg Leach added that the storms represented a “significant change in the weather pattern” in the state…
“Only last week we were dealing with bushfire situations and now the big wet has arrived… and so we need to be prepared not only for the weather we are dealing with now but we’re likely to see over the coming month.”..
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A king tide, combined with heavy rain and strong winds, is causing a mass rain event up the east coast.
Waves are breaching shoreline barriers at Cleveland and Wynnum, on Brisbane's Bayside, with water running over roads and into front yards. #9News pic.twitter.com/6Rl3X1BIF5
— 9News Queensland (@9NewsQueensland) December 14, 2020
h/t Blue Spirit