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We have a wet week ahead for much of the country too, though not problematic amounts. It's actually been a relatively dry winter with reservoirs around 70% as opposed to the 90-100% we'd expect at this time of year, so best to get the rain before spring while we expect the weather to be bad anyway.
Yeah, by our standards we did but converted into rain it didn't amount to a great deal so was the driest December since 1963, particularly in the west which didn't get its usual drenching because the winds kept coming from the east/north. Those places instead got one of their sunniest Decembers ever. It was a very abnormal month in every sense, but now the typical mild Atlantic weather is back it feels like it never happened.
Sure is, it's more than we get in a typical year. What shocks me is the mere 143.6 sun hours for the lightest month of the year (though I'm sure winter there is mostly sunny). 10 days with <1 sun hour is quite different to what I expected for northern Australia. I imagined mostly sunny days with a massive thunderstorm in the afternoon, but only the 4th was like that. Is Mackay particularly wet or flood-prone? I remember hearing of it flooding about three years ago.
It is a big anomaly - in December 2009, in contrast, they got around 10 hours/day sun.
^^^ These sorts of floods seem to happen quite often in tropical Australia I've noticed...I know the rain amounts are really high but can't they do something like build levees or deepen the rivers or build embankments or just not build on the flood plain to stop all this devastation? I don't know much about flood prevention but the people who parked their cars next to the river must have had some idea of how the river could rise so quickly if they live next to it, or is this a once-in-a-lifetime thing for that location?
^^^ These sorts of floods seem to happen quite often in tropical Australia I've noticed...I know the rain amounts are really high but can't they do something like build levees or deepen the rivers or build embankments or just not build on the flood plain to stop all this devastation? I don't know much about flood prevention but the people who parked their cars next to the river must have had some idea of how the river could rise so quickly if they live next to it, or is this a once-in-a-lifetime thing for that location?
Not really, last time a flood of this magnitude was in 1974. 10 people also confirmed dead.
We had over 60mm of rain today, about 3-4 times the monthly average.
I don't know much about flood prevention but the people who parked their cars next to the river must have had some idea of how the river could rise so quickly if they live next to it, or is this a once-in-a-lifetime thing for that location?
I suspect that "river" was not a river,
but a drainage ditch that doesn't normally stay wet year-round.
We have ditches like that in Canada.
Often cattails grow there if it stays wet long enough.
Ah, fair enough people aren't prepared for something that rare. I guess other floods I've seen there were more localised as well.
Yep. Some idea of the size of this thing. Last week the flooding was the size of France & Germany. And it has gotten a whole heap worse since then
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