Severe weather impacted parts of south-east Queensland, Australia, from 12 to 13 December, 2019. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology reported rainfall rates of 120mm per hour in Southport, Queensland. Cars were…
Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone?, by Billy Tusker Haworth, University of Manchester; Christine Eriksen, University of Wollongong, and Scott McKinnon, University of Wollongong…
Most major airports in Australia are located on reclaimed swamps, sitting only a few metres above the present day sea level. And the risk of sea level rise from climate…
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Southern Pacific Ocean and captured a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Ann in the Coral Sea, off the east coast of Queensland, Australia.…
Tropical Cyclone Trevor has crossed Queensland, Australia’s Cape York Peninsula and re-emerged into the Gulf of Carpentaria. Visible imagery from NASA’s Terra satellite confirmed the movement back over water. Tropical…
Flood warnings have been issued in Queensland, Australia, after Tropical Cyclone Trevor dumped more than 300mm of rain in 24 hours. Storm Trevor made landfall along the east coast of…
Many parts of Queensland have been declared disaster zones and thousands of residents evacuated due to a 1-in-100-year flood. Townsville is at the epicentre of the “unprecedented” monsoonal downpour that…
The heavy rain has continued to fall in North Queensland, with flooding affecting areas around Townsville from 30 January, 2019. A few days earlier wide areas of the north of…
Torrential rain and swollen rivers have left communities cut off and farmland inundated in parts of northern Queensland, Australia. According to figures from Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) over 620…
Severe weather brought by storms and tropical cyclones Penny and Mona, has affected several Pacific islands over the last 2 weeks. At least 3 deaths have been reported with a…
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Owen dumped record rainfall in North Queensland from 15 to 16 December, 2018. Queensland Police warned that the “significant rainfall has resulted in an increase in water flow…
The low pressure area formerly known as Tropical Cyclone Owen continued to organize and cross the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia on Dec. 11. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or…
Torrential rainfall from ex Tropical Cyclone Nora in northern Queensland, Australia caused rivers to reach some of the highest levels seen in almost 20 years. Emergency services were called on…
Most major floods in South East Queensland arrive in five-year bursts, once every 40 years or so, according to new research by Anthony Kiem, Associate Professor – Hydroclimatology, University of…
Several rivers have burst their banks in North Queensland after a 4 days of heavy rain. Many areas have recorded 500 to 700 mm of rain during that time. This…
Heavy rain has continued to fall in parts of North West and Central Queensland, leaving farmland and some roads have been flooded. Just one week into the month and some…
