Has anyone heard from Tim Flannery, lately? Hello? Tim?
It’s odd, isn’t it, that Australia’s leading climate doom-shrieker only ever seems to emerge from hiding whenever it gets a bit hot. But when the rain buckets down, as it will in this land “of drought and flooding rains”, suddenly he’s nowhere to be seen.
Maybe he’s too busy sandbagging his luxury riverside home. Either that, or he’s just laying low and hoping everyone forgets his finger-wagging predictions of years past. It was only 15 years ago that The Great Predicto was soothsaying that “Sydney can expect to receive 60 per cent less rainfall than it does at present” and “even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems”.
Never let it be said that the weather gods don’t have a black sense of humour.
At least 300,000 NSW residents are currently being impacted by evacuation warnings, with the deadly weather system impacting Australia’s east coast heading towards Sydney.
Premier Dominic Perrottet said there are currently 26 evacuation orders in place across the state, impacting 40,000 people.
Another 300,000 residents are currently under evacuation warnings, with this number likely to rise as the wild weather moves down the coast of NSW.
The “rain bomb” that drenched Queensland over the last few days is moving south. If what we saw in Queensland — where my friends were posting photos of the water creeping inexorably to their doorsteps — continues down the east coast, it’s going to cause more havoc.
A severe weather warning is in place for much of NSW’s east coast, including Sydney, as the weather system that devastated northern parts of the state and Queensland makes its way south.
Warnings for damaging winds, heavy rainfall and life-threatening flash flooding are in place for Metropolitan, Illawarra, South Coast, parts of the Hunter, Central Tablelands and Southern Tablelands Forecast Districts […]
Heavy rainfall could lead to flash flooding tonight and into Wednesday morning, with six-hourly rainfall totals between 80 and 120mm likely to occur south of Gosford.
Intense rainfall in excess of 200mm, possible thunderstorms and locally destructive wind gusts in excess of 125km/h are also possible.
I wonder if the ABC will trumpet about the new records being set like it does when it gets hot somewhere in the Simpson desert?
The dramatic downpour is the highest daily total in NSW since 1954 and the highest rainfall total in Australia since 1998 […]
“(Brisbane) broke its three-day rainfall record and records go back to 1840.
The Australian
The poor old ABC is going to have to shelve the pre-written climate hysteria they had ready for this summer until next year.
