Worst Flooding in Decades
The floods began thanks to a convergence of two weather systems from opposite sides of the country. Moisture streams from off the coast of Western Australia and New South Wales have unleashed a torrent of rain that’s been concentrated along the coast and areas immediately inland. Agata Imielska, a senior climatologist with the Bureau of Meteorology told Yahoo News Australia that it was a “very significant, record-breaking event.”
Gladys Berejiklian, the premier of New South Wales, said in a press conference Sunday that the mid-north coast of the state was facing a once-in-a-century event and other areas were facing a “one-in-50-year event,” including areas near Sydney, one of the country’s largest cities. For areas that have been hammered, the New South Wales Rural Fire Service tweeted that they “resemble an inland sea.”
