In March 2025, much of Queensland was lashed, drenched and then drown by torrential rains with downpours of 180 mm in a single day, breaking records for March, swelling rivers and flooding plains. From Burketown to Winton to Adavale to Thargomindah, … [Read more...] about Western Queensland’s Great Deluge: My Thoughts & Commiserations
Flooding
Fear, Flooding, Forecasting & Australia’s 2022 Official Rainfall Statistics
This year the Australian Bureau of Meteorology waited until after close of business on Friday 6th January 2023 to release the official climate statistics for 2022. After claims of unprecedented extreme rainfall all year, the statistics must be … [Read more...] about Fear, Flooding, Forecasting & Australia’s 2022 Official Rainfall Statistics
BOM Buries Record Daily Rainfall During Lismore Floods
The NSW Premier handed down the 2022 Flood Inquiry report last week and at the same time many of the 1,498 written submissions were made public. The submissions make for harrowing reading, especially the first-hand accounts from the Lismore … [Read more...] about BOM Buries Record Daily Rainfall During Lismore Floods
Counting Wettest Days, Half Way Down the East Coast of Australia
It has been raining a lot where I live, about halfway down the east coast of Australia. The year I started boarding school it also rained a lot, that was 1974 – another year of extreme rainfall. I remember the flooding back then. But this year … [Read more...] about Counting Wettest Days, Half Way Down the East Coast of Australia