Massive weather front lashes eastern Australia

[Rocky_imp]

I hope all our friends along the eastern coast of Australia are high and dry.
Severe flooding, landslides and even tornados.

 

[GoldOxide_imp]

Jeez. Yeah. I guess risk of erosion is high.

What's next? Wild fires?

Be safe!

 

[Cormanus]

Thanks for your thoughts gentlemen. Things are fine here in Brisbane. It’s appropriately wet for the time of year. In Sydney and environs—Pterodactyl country—it’s dangerously wet.

 

[Rocky_imp]

Good to hear
Although I've been to Sydney and environs, I didn't realize Brisbane was that far north of Sydney.

 

[Cormanus]

Yes, a tad under 1,000 kms. The hideous weather system has moved north to southeast Queensland and we’ got very wet indeed yesterday with lots more to come today. I haven’t read my rain gauge yet; but the met bureau is reporting 125 mls of rain in the past 24 hours.

 

[Rocky_imp]

Wow, that's a stunning amount of rain!
Be safe.

 

[Cormanus]

Rocky, when I got to the gauge this morning there was 212.5 mls for the 24 hour period. Around 8”.

 

[Rocky_imp]

Rocky, when I got to the gauge this morning there was 212.5 mls for the 24 hour period. Around 8”.

All I can say is WOW!!

 

[GoldOxide_imp]

Monsson!

 

[the Ferret]

cool pic

 

[GoldOxide_imp]

cool pic

Yeah, that is not Australia, but it is a lot of rain at one instant, likely causing flash floods.

The location is somewhere in Arizona.

 

[Cormanus]

And there was I thinking it was a still from an apocalyptic movie! It’s an amazing shot. It’s still raining, although there’s been less in the past 24 hours.

 

[Jfro5687_imp]

It’s on our main news here this morning, looks horrendous. When Mother Nature let’s rip there’s nothing we can do really. Puts us in our place alright.

 

[Tezza_imp]

We have a famous poem "I love a sunburnt country" in part says "I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains."
We never seem to do things by halves.

 

[flynrider]

cool pic

Yeah, that is not Australia, but it is a lot of rain at one instant, likely causing flash floods.

The location is somewhere in Arizona.

Yep. That was taken by a local news helicopter pilot in Phoenix about 5 years ago. I remember that storm caused quite a bit of damage around town.

 

[GoldOxide_imp]

cool pic

Yeah, that is not Australia, but it is a lot of rain at one instant, likely causing flash floods.

The location is somewhere in Arizona.

Yep. That was taken by a local news helicopter pilot in Phoenix about 5 years ago. I remember that storm caused quite a bit of damage around town.

Yep. That was taken by a local news helicopter pilot in Phoenix about 5 years ago. I remember that storm caused quite a bit of damage around town.
I find the overflow water management system around the greater Phoenix area pretty extensive. Every time I am there they are bone dry. However, given their design depth, clearly they are expected to handle high in-rush amounts of precipitation.