Sydney, flood

Days of torrential rain have submerged suburbs — sweeping cars off roads and engulfing bridges — as authorities warned the dangerous weather would continue.

“It is dangerous. Australia’s government has declared the floods a natural disaster, enabling some victims to access recovery funds. Australia’s east coast has experienced four major floods in less than 18 months as a La Niña weather pattern has brought cooler, wetter conditions. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology recently declared an end to the 2021-2022 La Niña but warned it could re-form later this year. There have not been any known fatalities, she said. A spokesperson for the state emergency services, or SES, said at midday Tuesday that the agency had performed 152 flood rescues in the past 24 hours, and almost 300 since flooding began in some areas on June 28.

SINGAPORE - Climate change is fuelling the weather causing severe floods in Sydney, scientists say, and as the planet heats up, more damaging flooding ...

This causes more moisture-filled air to flow towards Australia and south-east Asia. The weather bureau said a negative IOD increases the chances of above average rainfall from June to November for much of Australia. He said reducing the risks meant shifting people and property out of harm's way. La Nina causes the large-scale cooling of surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean that occurs every two to seven years. However, even if La Nina events themselves do not change, the impacts are expected to be more severe. So when it rains, more water comes down with it," explained Dr Agus Santoso of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. But climate change is causing La Nina's impacts to become more severe, scientists say.

Flood crisis worsens in Australia's largest city, parts of which have seen 3 rounds of flooding in a year and a half.

The ship was briefly rescued by a tugboat that managed to pull it towards the open on Monday before an 11-metre tow-line snapped during the storm, according to Holliday. “There was plenty of rainfall overnight and that is actually seeing some rivers peak for a second time. “At the end of the day, what can you do? The March deluge killed 20 people and caused damage estimated at about 4.8 billion Australian dollars ($3.3bn). Nigel Myron, who also lives in Windsor, told ABC that he had an inflatable boat ready to evacuate his home, although he expected to come back. “Wherever you are, please be careful when you’re driving on our roads.

Widespread flooding across Australia - driven by a La Niña weather pattern - has killed more than 20 people this year, many in New South Wales (NSW). More than ...

You can also get in touch in the following ways: Experts say the flooding emergency has been worsened by climate change and a La Niña weather phenomenon. A La Niña develops when strong winds blow the warm surface waters of the Pacific away from South America and towards Indonesia. In their place, colder waters come up to the surface. He moved into his home in the Sydney suburb of Windsor last year, and was told major flood events were supposed to be "one in 25 years, one in 50 years or whatever it was". The downpour is expected to begin easing in Sydney on Tuesday, but gale-force winds are also forecast, bringing a risk of falling trees and powerlines. Some areas of NSW have seen 800mm of rain in four days, says the Bureau of Meteorology, almost a third more than the average rainfall Greater London receives in a year.