Sydney, March 6 (IANS) A severe weather warning for dangerous flash flooding has been issued in Australia’s Queensland as a tropical low storm system approaches the state’s northeast coast.The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said in the warning that the tropical low was expected to bring intense rainfall to a 350-km stretch of coast in Queensland’s tropical far north from Friday morning.”Locally intense rainfall, which may lead to dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding, is possible this morni…
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Melbourne, March 2 (IANS) Emergency warnings for life-threatening flash flooding have been issued for vast areas of the southeast Australian states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW).The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) on Monday issued severe weather warnings for heavy and locally intense rainfall across regions in central and northern Victoria and south and southwestern NSW.It said that six-hourly rainfall totaling up to 100 mm was possible on Monday across the warning area spanning over 650 km …
Sydney, Jan 18 (IANS) A landslide impacted three houses in northern Sydney as life-threatening flash flooding has prompted evacuation orders.Residents of the Narrabeen Lagoon area in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, around 19 km north of the central business district, were told to evacuate shortly before 11 p.m. local time Saturday due to rising floodwaters caused by storms that brought intense rainfall, reports Xinhua news agency.The State Emergency Service (SES) said on Sunday morning that authoriti…
Sydney, Jan 17 (IANS) A woman has died after her car was struck by a falling tree south of Sydney as strong winds and intense rainfall hit Australia’s east coast on Saturday.Emergency services were called to reports that a tree branch had fallen onto a vehicle around 90 km south of central Sydney shortly before 4 p.m. local time on Saturday.The female driver of the vehicle died at the scene, while a male passenger in the front seat suffered minor injuries. Two rear-seat passengers were not injur…