flooding

Queensland 2013 bigwet floods, tornados and climate change

Submitted by takver on Mon, 28/01/2013 - 5:11pm

Ex-tropical cyclone Oswald has left a trail of damage and destruction from it's origins in the Gulf of Carpentaria to crossing Cape York and working it's way down the Queensland Coast. The storms brought destructive winds, tornados, rough seas, storm surge and torrential rain, followed by flooding. Quite a few rain records were broken for 24 and 48 hour periods in Rockhampton, Gladstone and Bundaberg with some rain gauges recording well over one metre of rain in 48 hours. Now flood level records are being broken for many river basins and towns like Bunderberg and Gympie.

Geography: 
New South Wales
Queensland
Promotion: 
Feature
Keywords: 
climate change
extreme weather
flood
flooding
tornado
torrential rain

Impacts of climate change on the NSW south coast and Illawarra regions

Submitted by takver on Thu, 28/07/2011 - 12:24am

A new report by the Climate Commission says the Illawarra region and South Coast of NSW highlights the increasing risks of the impacts of climate change. These impacts include an increase in the likelihood of large and intense fires as temperatures increase, rising sea levels causing coastal flooding of buildings and infrastructure, changing rainfall patterns and more intense storms increasing the dangers of severe flooding, and impacts to the regional biodiversity.

Geography: 
New South Wales
Wollongong
Keywords: 
climate change
sea level rise
bushfire
Illawarra
flooding