Massive rain band to bring more storms, flooding and windy weather to Australia’s east coast

A large rain band transferring throughout the nation in the direction of the east coast is threatening to convey extreme thunderstorms, flash flooding and gusty winds within the coming days.

Inland Queensland and northern New South Wales had been anticipated to be hardest hit by thunderstorms, with flooding additionally probably.

The rain band was anticipated to maneuver into the western elements of Queensland, NSW and Victoria on Wednesday night time, earlier than transferring by the remainder of the japanese states on Thursday.

Between 15 and 40mm of widespread rainfall was forecast, a few of it in areas which might be already moist, in accordance with the Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Christie Johnson.

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“This won't sound like quite a lot of rainfall however, provided that quite a lot of it's going to be falling over presently saturated and already flooded areas, we expect to see renewed river rises and potential prolonging of present flooding,” she stated.

“We've many flood warnings out for the time being, significantly by inland NSW, elements of southern Queensland and Victoria, and we will probably be issuing additional flood watches and warnings as required,” she added.

The BoM has issued a minor flood warning for the Macquarie River, and minor to reasonable flood warnings for the Bogan, Lachlan, Murrumbidgee, Murray and Edward rivers.

It stated the system may additionally convey massive wind gusts and hail, significantly over elevated areas.

The chilly entrance had already hit South Australia and southern elements of the Northern Territory.

The system was forecast to accentuate on Wednesday afternoon over japanese South Australia and the south-eastern Northern Territory because the entrance mixed with tropical moisture from the Indian Ocean and the Coral Sea.

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Johnson stated Australia was within the midst of a adverse Indian Ocean Dipole occasion, which was producing the upper fee of rainfall over the east coast.

“We even have above common sea floor temperatures round Australia. These circumstances imply that there’s quite a lot of obtainable moisture that may be dragged into these climate programs as they cross the nation,” she stated.

“The October to December outlook suggests wetter than common circumstances for many of japanese Australia.”

Johnson stated there was a 70% likelihood of a La Niña occasion creating in the course of the spring, which was contributing to the wetter than common outlook.