SYDNEY – Heavy rains lashed elements of Australia’s east on Monday, triggering flash flooding, inundating roads and bringing extra ache for a few citizens reeling after the acute thunderstorms that hit the vicinity over the Christmas vacations.
The northeastern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland areas were pounded with the aid of a wild climate machine in a single day, with several cities taking more or less a month’s rainfall over 24 hours to Monday morning.
Greater heavy rain is forecast till Tuesday morning, with totals set to exceed 250 mm (9.8 inches), extra than the January average.
“This example remains dangerous and dynamic,” Miriam Bradbury, a forecaster on the Bureau of Meteorology, said in a video message on social media platform X. “This domestically excessive rainfall is maximum in all likelihood with thunderstorms thru the day today and potentially should result in lifestyles-threatening flash flooding.”
The popular Gold Coast tourist spot in Queensland is a few of the worst affected, with photos on social media showing cars caught in flooded roads and low-lying areas under water.
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“In case you don’t must go out today, live domestic,” Gold Coast metropolis Mayor Tom Tate said at some stage in a press briefing.
Hundreds of residents in Queensland are nevertheless with out power after thunderstorms on Dec. 25 and 26 uprooted bushes and knocked down electricity strains. government said the brand new storms ought to put off reconnection efforts.
A own family of 4, trapped after unexpectedly growing rivers submerged their caravan park in northern New South Wales, were efficiently rescued.
