Earlier than the February 2022 flood in south-east Queensland, Wivenhoe was sitting at 56 per cent, however the dam then obtained “about three Sydney Harbours value of water in below three days”, and it rapidly shot as much as 183 per cent.
Commissioner Katarina Carroll has warned Queenslanders to organize for life-threatening flooding.Credit score: Instagram
Between February 23 and 28, 2022, the Brisbane Metropolis Council space obtained between 400mm and 1100mm of rain, a lot of which fell between February 25 and 27.
Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll urged individuals to drive safely in the course of the upcoming wild climate, warning there could possibly be life-threatening flash flooding as holidaymakers hit the street for the Australia Day lengthy weekend.
“Throughout the catastrophe season already we misplaced seven lives in such a brief timeframe … so we don’t need to see that once more,” she stated.
“We all know that already the roads, the surroundings is totally saturated. The bureau has been very clear about life-threatening flash flooding.”
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Premier Steven Miles stated individuals planning to journey south of Cairns, or to Airlie Seaside, ought to carefully monitor emergency warnings.
The warnings got here as components of north Queensland continued to get better from Tropical Cyclone Jasper, which made landfall in December.
Catastrophe Restoration Minister Nikki Boyd stated emergency providers had been despatched to north Queensland on Monday forward of the cyclone’s arrival.
Gales with damaging wind gusts as much as 120km/h might develop close to the Whitsunday Islands from Wednesday afternoon and attain the mainland communities between Townsville and St Lawrence in a single day on Wednesday into Thursday morning.
The realm between Cairns and Townsville was anticipated to be within the firing line on Thursday, with gusts as much as 120km/h, whereas damaging wind gusts as much as 155km/h might develop between Cardwell and Proserpine, together with Townsville and the Whitsunday Islands.
Heavy rain, which might result in flash flooding, might develop in coastal areas between Townsville and St Lawrence from late Wednesday earlier than spreading to close by inland areas and north to Cairns on Thursday and Friday.
A storm tide was additionally anticipated between Townsville and Mackay because the cyclone crossed the coast, inflicting massive waves and flooding on the foreshore.