All over the Earth, its atmosphere receives just about a week’s rain.
As much as 200mm. of rain dropped in just a few hours in a few cities, drowning towns and cities from Brisbane to Sydney and along the Australian east coast.
Insurance claims in both states were now estimated to have total coverage at $1.45 billion.
This combination is just coming.
- As of 8 March, insurers were receiving nearly 100.000 flood claims in Queensland and NSW.
We used an ingenious moisture tracing model in reverse time – from the place where it fell down as rain, back through the atmosphere to the place where it vaporized.
Rising flooding levels have triggered a record number of SES flood rescues in NSW, including 932 in a 24-hour period.
The dipole in the Indian Ocean is immobile at this time of year.
24 hours until 9am parts of #Sydney saw more than 100mm of rain. This year marks the wettest start to a year on record with 872.4mm, the previous record was 815.8mm in 1956. Rain easing as low moves off the coast, surf conditions remain dangerous and river rises still possible. pic.twitter.com/NLoI2Muvot
— Bureau of Meteorology, New South Wales (@BOM_NSW) March 9, 2022
@BOM_au says river levels at Windsor peaked around 7am Wednesday with flood levels nearly 1m above the March 2021 floods. The main flood peak in the Hawkesbury is now downstream of Wisemans Ferry.https://t.co/3xvSGIW0rO #NSWFloods pic.twitter.com/xETa755QQn
— @phannam@mastodon.green (@p_hannam) March 9, 2022
@BOM_au's outlook for March-May points to a wetter-than-usual autumn for eastern Australia, a region's mostly had a very wet start to 2022. pic.twitter.com/lJymVok2aj
— @phannam@mastodon.green (@p_hannam) March 9, 2022
@BOM_au's outlook for April-June also has the odds tilting towards above-average rainfall for those sodden eastern regions. #NSWFloods #QLDFloods2022 pic.twitter.com/F077s4JDLc
— @phannam@mastodon.green (@p_hannam) March 9, 2022
