Brisbane has recently received a badly required drenching from an extremely wild storm that prompted flash floods and caused thousands of houses without electricity.
The Queensland capital saw rainfall over 100 mm on Wednesday night. The city of Brisbane recorded amongst the highest downpour in two decades. In fact, it is the amount that equals what the city saw in the last six months.
The wild weather was described as a very dangerous storm along with extremely intense rainfall by the Bureau of Meteorology.
The state’s southeast witnesses 3,000 lightning streaks. While the East Brisbane had 135 mm of rainfall and the CBD weather station got 130.4 mm.
Near to 2000 homes lost electricity during the freak storm, and 400 homes were still in a blackout on the next morning.
The suburbs of Paddington and Carindale counted for near to half of the outages.
The flash floods caused damage as roads transformed into streams, including the Pacific Motorway, which is near East Brisbane. Multiple flights were diverted as well as wind gusts touched 80km per hour at the Brisbane airport.
As per Jess Gardener, the Bureau of Meteorology forecaster, the amount of rainfall Brisbane witnessed was more than the total of what it received in the last six months.
He noted that between 10-11 pm that night, the amount of rainfall was around 112 mm.
It was a highly busy night for State Emergency Service, as it received 69 phone calls for Brisbane and 1 from Bribie Island. The majority of those calls were reported to be for damaged roofs.
This came very close to 135.8 mm rainfall recorded on a February night in 2018.
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