A thunderstorm sweeping across Melbourne is causing widespread flash flooding prompting numerous calls for assistance.
Sydneysiders are also dealing with traffic chaos as residents along the length of the New South Wales coast are being told to prepare for heavy rainfall, damaging winds and large hailstones.
People in the Melbourne CBD and eastern suburbs are being warned to stay indoors and not to enter floodwaters.
A live map of the city on the VicEmergency website is dotted with requests for assistance due to flooding. Areas include Hawthorn, Richmond, Toorak, Kew, Cremorne and Port Melbourne.
Read the story from The Guardian by Australian Associated Press - “Wild weather causes flooding in Melbourne and chaos in Sydney.
(In his book “Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the anthropocene” Clive Hamilton quotes climatologist Kevin Trenberth, who said: “All weather events are affected by [human-induced] climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be.”
Surely, what is happening up and down Australia’s east-coast is climate change made visible - Robert McLean)
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