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Some communities have received up to 600mm of rain in the past day. 🧵 1/5 pic.twitter.com ... This is Cairns today. The Cairns community is dealing with significant flooding after Tropical ...
Rainfall averages from 1,200 millimetres (mm) to over 8,000 mm annually. [8] The highest mountains along the escarpment between Cairns and Tully receive the highest rainfall, mainly owing to orographic factors. Mount Bellenden Ker is the wettest recording station in the area with other high peaks and eastern slopes favouring high rainfall. [8]
Cairns's mean annual rainfall is just under 2,000 millimetres (79 in), although monthly totals in the wet season from December to April can exceed 1,000 mm (39 in), with the highest monthly rainfall being recorded in January 1981, when over 1,417.4 mm (55.80 in) of rain fell. [37]
Jasper produced torrential rainfall, peaking at 2,252 mm (88.7 in) at Bairds near the Daintree River, making the wettest tropical cyclone in Australian history, beating the previous record of Cyclone Peter in 1979. [37] [38] The Insurance Council of Australia estimated that Jasper caused AU$1 billion (US$670 million) in damages. [39]
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Per the World Bank (2017) [1] [2]; Country mm/ year) Continent 1 Colombia 3,240: South America: 2 São Tomé and Príncipe 3,200: Africa Tuvalu 3,200: Oceania: 3 Papua New Guinea 3,142 ...
Douglas Cairns, Traffic Scotland operator manager at Transport Scotland, said: "Road, rail, air and ferry services are all likely to be affected by the conditions, with localised flooding, longer ...
The transition to polarimetric (dual-polarised) radars began in 2017 with the upgrade of 4 Meteor 1500 radars located in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Sydney. [7] The network has further been enhanced through the installation of 8 new polarimetric Meteor 735 radars across WA, [8] NSW [9] & Victoria, [10] and two polarimetric WRM200 radars [11] manufactured by Vaisala, one to replace the ...