A metre of rain in a week: Rainfall records tumble in Queensland and NSW

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Rainfall records have tumbled across Queensland's southeast and northern NSW:

More than 50 sites in the region registered over a metre of rain in a week during 2022, the Bureau of Meteorology says.and others five times the amount.The big wet came as a result of weather systems over eastern Australia and the Tasman Sea where large volumes of humid, tropical air moved onshore.

But the lower Brisbane, Bremer Rivers and Lockyer Creek peaked below levels experienced in January 1974 and in the 2011 floods.

 

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