/ 15 December 2023

Big weather bruising the coast

Image source: AAP
Image source: AAP

Far North Queenslanders are starting to clean up post-Jasper as it moves into the Gulf of Carpentaria today, where the tropical storm could again become a cyclone. While there are trees down, flooded roads and damage to a lot of infrastructure where the storm crossed the coast on Wednesday, Senator Nita Green says the community is feeling “pretty relieved”. Smaller communities in the Mareeba region are still under flood warnings after massive rainfall totals, including more than 600mm in some areas. And because Australia doesn’t do weather by halves, a whole different problem is consuming Sydney. The city had a scorcher hitting the high 30Cs coupled with high humidity yesterday, leaving energy operators to plead with residents to conserve power to head off blackouts. Sydney is sweltering through its hottest start to summer based on records going back to 1859…

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