By Paul Homewood

Ben Rich has a video on the Brisbane floods:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/60604688

As usual, he makes the amount of rainfall sound impossibly high by relating it to annual rainfall.

In fact, it is not uncommon to see more than 1000mm of rainfall in the first three months of the year in Brisbane. Indeed the record for January to March was set in 1974 when 1433mm fell.

http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=139&p_display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=&p_stn_num=040224

The real problem this year was the fact that the weather front was slow moving, dumping heavy rain for three days from Feb 26th:

http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=136&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=&p_stn_num=040224

None of those daily totals were remotely unprecedented in Queensland. The daily record for February was an astonishing 907mm in 1893 at Crohamhurst, just 46 miles away from Brisbane.

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March 12, 2022 at 05:18AM