Extreme weather across Australia brings drought, heatwaves and severe floods | Australia weather
From extreme rain and floods to heat and drought waves, Australians all over the country faced extremist weather as politicians went to the first full week of campaigns.
It was the cities and towns of Queensland She is still dealing with the effects of flood On Monday, including large -scale stock losses and widespread damage, then General values of rain It fell within days.
The city of Townsville in northern Queensland exceeds “it” is sure to exceed the annual rainfall record this week, after only three months until 2025, according to the Supreme Meteorological Specialist of the Meteorological Office, Jonathan Kaif.
He said that the aesthetics of rain at Townsville Airport were sitting at an altitude of 2.35 meters for this year so far, at least 50 mm of the finest year in the city, when 2.4 meters were registered over 12 months in 2000.
Wenton in Queensland of Winton, the capital of Australian dinosaurs, has registered 510 mm so far in 2025, compared to an average of 387.8 mm, and is one of many internal places that already exceeds the average annual rainfall.
It was expected more rain for West and South Queensland on Tuesday and Wednesday, where the low pressure system was moved by the former tropical hurricane Diane (which is now sitting over western Australia and the northern lands) east, and how he said.
He said that this may bring isolated aesthetics of up to 50 mm, including places that already suffer from floods, he said, is likely to lengthen or cause renewed height.
It was expected that the internal flood water would take weeks, or even months, to move to the bottom of the southern Australian course, towards Katie Tharda/Lake Air.
Surf Life Saving NSW will continue to continue outside the New South Wales coast this week, as it is possible to close hundreds of beaches as the low pressure system continues to bring large waves and amplify them to coastal areas.
Steve Pears, CEO of the organization, said he was already a month in a row for volunteers and rescue men, and urged people to verify Beaches Before visiting the coast.
“It is really important to remember that dangerous waves not only affect rock fish, swimmers and boats, it may be dangerous to see the city’s features as well, especially in open sites and rock platforms.”
Meanwhile in Barth, the population was competing with intense heat and lengthening, including six days in a row above 35C, which is ever equivalent to the March record for the Metropolitan region, how he said. “The last time we saw six consecutive days in March above 35 degrees in 1985.”
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In Adelaide, the city has been suffering from most December to March from 1963-1964, the most dry of the Adeleide Airport registration.
Throughout 2025, the city recorded a total of 14 mm of rain, which is much lower than an average of 64 mm. Unfortunately, there was “nothing big or useful” in terms of the expected rain of Delid in the next ten days, how he said.
With the current tanks at 38 %, the water desalination factory in Adeleide continued to work in the full Pelt – resulting in the equivalent of its usual monthly production in two days – to clarify the water supply in the city.
Dr. Lynette Bito, a prominent climate specialist at The Bom, said that March was more moisture than average for Winzland and northern New South Wales, partly due to the former tropical hurricane Alfred, noting that the highest accumulated rain for this year was 1.6 meters in Cardwell Range, in Queensland, until March 26.
However, the rain had not improved storage levels in the Murray-Marling Basin, which sits 20 % of the same time last year-dry conditions continued in the southern agricultural areas, especially in southern Australia and West Victoria.
Australia also guaranteed its warmest day in March, with an average of 38.7 degrees Celsius on March 1, according to the latest office Climate update.
Earth’s surface in Australia It has improved by 1.5 ° C since 1910According to the office, the climate crisis increased the frequency and intensity of harsh weather events.
