Further stormy weather for eastern Australia by Steph Ball
Little more than a week after enduring what was said to be Queensland’s worst storms in over 25 years, the state has been pummelled once again.
A series of violent storms first tore across Australia’s east coast last weekend. The storms especially affected Brisbane and the popular tourist areas of the Sunshine and Gold coasts.
Just when residents might have thought things were returning to some normality, most of the same areas were hit again Thursday by a second spate of storms. The first storm hit early in the day dumping almost 200mm (8 inches) of rain across Queensland’s capital Brisbane and surrounding areas. Much of this fell in a matter of hours triggering flash floods. Troops were deployed once again to help thousands of residents.
Although the weather improved across Queensland on Friday the Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued an advisory concerning severe weather and potential flooding for eastern Victoria this weekend. An intense area of low pressure is expected to develop over the eastern Bass Strait on Saturday bringing widespread heavy rain and some very strong winds across parts of Victoria.
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