Mother Nature sees 2015 out with a bang!

Emma Manser.

Mother Nature is seeing 2015 out with a bang.

Floods, severe storms, unseasonably warm weather and blizzards have battered the globe in the past week, while Australians have contended with floods, out-of-control bushfires and cyclonic systems.

In the Northern Territory, about 500 residents of the Daly River community have been evacuated since Sunday, after the waterway reached a height of 23.3m at the Dorisvale Crossing – the second highest on record. Locals were on croc alert where they’d usually be walking down the street.

Read Emma Manser’s story in The New Daily - “A week of extreme weather sees out 2015.”