Australia Flooding
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Insight into the massive deluge now engulfing Australia.
“I love a sun burnt country of droughts and flooding rains….” Dorathea McKellar.
From Tuesday, 3rd of February until Wednesday, 18th of February 2009, Queensland and Northern New South Wales ( NSW ) have experienced inundations that cut many towns off from their supply routes. These floods flow across the North, sweeping south along ancient yet now bone-dry rivers, rushing to their ultimate destination - the Cooper Basin and Lake Eyre. It’s historic but now it’s wetterthan ever with raging waters everywhere. No reported deaths.
Area of Floods
The flooding is across the entire North of Australia. It has been a stronger than normal Wet Season. Now the water gushes South cutting off town in New South Wales. The continent is on a very slight slope – it is tilted South.
When it rains in the North the water flows, “downhill,” along ancient rivers. Now, towns in New South Wales flooding as waters flow to the lowest point on the Continent – Lake Eyre. Supplies must be flown into Bourke, today. Australia is massive and the water is, according to news reports, flooding 60% of Queensland. Imagine a flood covering Western Europe!
Background of the Deluge
It’s the rainy season in the North with rains from Asia sweeping across the land. It bucketed down this year. 1988 saw flood events in North Western Australia around the Pilbara. The famous Cyclone Tracey swiped Darwin off the map in 1974 dumping gallons upon the land. This year has been a shocker.
Capital Cities
Canberra and Sydney have had showers for the entire week from Valentine’s Day. Melbourne has been dry. The South of Australia is drying out whilst the North is experiencing longer wet periods. Just last week, scientists discovered a new weather system in the Indian Ocean that affects our rain in the South. Until now Australian meteorologists have blamed the El Nino weather event ( In Peru ) for whipping Australia’s climate.
Supplies
Waters in Northern NSW rose 250ml overnight on Tuesday, 17th of February. Bourke in the West of Northern New SouthWales is now cut from all supplies. There flying food into Belingen on the coast. Animals are being left to drown - the loss of cattle and sheep - enormous.
Australia is going through the most extreme weather in living memory. We have dangerous, deadly fires in the South – with the loss of many lives – coupled with raging, deep waters to the North. The dread, “Climate Change,” is blamed, of course, although we have been through this before; just not all at once. The rainfall with flooding continues…
4 Comments
not many people are talking about this at the moment cause the fires are taking all the attention, but nice article.
Had no idea! All the news shows have the same pics of burnt out cars!
Take care!
Clay
As always very informative article. Thanks for sharing.
timely and up to date.. let us just pray that the casualties are at the minimum in this time of climate change crisis..