The north Queensland coast is in the midst of an extreme rainfall event that has forced the Ross River Dam near Townsville to open its gates, adding to the flooding already underway.
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| Floods are threatening hundreds of homes in the Townsville area. |
Here's how it has happened – and why.
It's not over yet but, as of 9am local time on Monday, Townsville Airport had recorded more than one metre of rain in the past week.
All up, that tally reached 1052 millimetres, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
The total beat the previous weekly high from January 1998 of 886 millimetres although that event included the "night of Noah' when a record daily tally of 548.8 millimetres fell.
Read the story from The Sydney Morning Herald by Peter Hannam and Nigel Gladstone - “How Queensland is being soaked by an 'unprecedented monsoonal burst’.”
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