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  1. I’ve seen/read about 20 news reports of the record breaking #torrentialrain / #flooding event in North Queensland. This is the only one that dares mention the ‘C’ word: #climatechange as a factor: What’s driving north Queensland’s deadly, record-breaking floods?
    #climatecrisis #Australia #NQfloods
    theconversation.com/whats-driv

  2. BOM Severe weather update (1pm) for south east #Australia :
    Severe Weather Update 2 January 2024: Flash flooding for SE Qld & severe storms in the south-east

    #Flooding #Thunderstorm #torrentialRain
    youtube.com/watch?v=OENlVEJlTb

  3. Further update to Queensland flash flooding emergency: “This situation continues to be dangerous and dynamic,” meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said.

    SE Queensland from the Sunshine Coast to Gold Coast and northern NSW, including Brisbane, continues to be subject to extreme rainfall causing flash flooding.

    This is the loaded dice of climate change causing more frequent extreme weather events
    #ClimateCrisis #Queensland #TorrentialRain #Flooding

    thenewdaily.com.au/news/2024/0

  4. New Years Day: More heavy rain and flash flooding in South-East Queensland.

    Global warming means a more active hydrological cycle, more moisture can be carried in the atmosphere as it warms. But that is the bit of the story the news leaves out.
    #Flooding #TorrentialRain #Queensland #ClimateCrisis

    abc.net.au/news/2024-01-01/gol

  5. The Guardian article on the #NYC #rainfall #deluge and #flooding and the analysis on which it is based are okay, but entirely miss the key point - "with every degree (Celsius) of warming, the atmosphere can hold 7% more moisture"[1]. In greater #NY / #NJ the temperature is now about 2.2C over the 1900 - 2020 average [2]. This equates to the atmosphere holding 15.4% more water than average. No "rapid attribution study" necessary. It's simple atmospheric #physics.

    Guardian - "Type of storm that drenched New York is up to 20% wetter due to #ClimateCrisis. Rapid attribution study finds storm 10-20% wetter after city experienced a month’s worth of rain in just a few hours on Friday"

    Guardian article -
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    [1] ZDF Report (in German) -
    per #ZDF weather expert, meteorologist Özden Terli
    zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/kl

    [2] US Temperature Data per #US #EPA
    epa.gov/climate-indicators/cli

    #ClimateEmergency #Climate #Klimakrise #Klima #ClimateDiary #GlobalWarming #NewYork #NewJersey #Weather #TorrentialRain #Floods #FlashFlood #FlashFloods #Meteorology

  6. @MartinStendel

    Es gibt in UK Anleitungen für die Bevölkerung, wie man sich vorbereiten kann, wie Gebäude gesichert werden können & was im Hochwasserfall zu beachten ist. Nach der #Ahrtal-Katastrophe wäre das wirklich in allen Risikogebieten wünschenswert, auch wenn es nur bedingt bei solchen Ausmaßen hift.

    Hier ist die Seite - alles Gute!

    metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warni

    #yesWEAID #torrentialrain #starkregen #überflutung #vorsorge #disasterresponse #disasterrelief #nothilfe #fluthilfe #wetter #news

  7. Thousands of festival-goers have been stranded with limited supplies at the Burning Man event in the remote Nevada desert in the US, after torrential rain le...
    Thousands stranded as torrential rain hits Burning Man festival | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
  8. @jackiegardina United Way has its

    helpline 2-1-1

    and 211.org/get-help/disaster-reco

    – so hopefully some can also get help with the disaster recovery afterwards (WE AID was cofounded by UnitedWay, just noticed the #news – best wishes from Berlin, toughts are with your people. #floodrecovery #emergencyaid #torrentialrain

  9. Extreme Rainfall, flooding event for central Queensland:

    "The ACCESS-C model is predicting more than half a metre of rain in parts of central QLD today (Tuesday). This will maintain the risk of rapid and dangerous flooding in the the region today. Rain is expected to ease from tomorrow as the culprit low pressure system moves offshore."

    by [email protected]
    twitter.com/Ben_Domensino/stat

    While this is part of monsoonal rain and La Nina, climate change heats up sea surface temperatures adding evaporation, and a warmer atmosphere means that for every 1C of warming about 7% more moisture can be carried to intensify rainfall events.
    #Queensland #flooding #torrentialRain #ClimateCrisis

  10. CW: Summary of climate impacts Australia 2022

    Australia in 2022: record rain, flooding and heat in a LaNina year. Summary

    * background heating from climate change has elevated average Australian temperatures by more than 1.47C since 1910, says BoM.

    * The third La Nina event in a row meant new records for rainfall and record flood events, while there was also new maximum daily temperatures for some sites over 50C.

    * at least 10 sites that recorded more than half a metre of rain in a day

    * #Sydney set a new rain record for the year of 2,536.6mm (Centennial Park site). previous record of 2,194mm set in 1950 (Observatory Hill)

    * New Spring record rainfall for Murray-Darling Basin agriculture zone: average rainfall total of just over 295mm more than double the previous spring average of about 120mm exceeding previous record of 251mm set in 2011.

    * Late February high rainfall and flood events in #Brisbane, Northern NSW (#Lismore) highlighted with many multi-day rainfall records broken and multiple sites recording more than a metre of rain. Rainfall totals for last week of February in the region were at least 2.5X to 5X the long-term average.

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #ClimateChange #Flooding #ExtremeHeat #TorrentialRain #LaNina #Australia #ClimateImpacts #MurrayDarlingBasin #Anthropocene