More than 100mm of rain fell on Brisbane in one hour last night, flooding streets and cutting power. Forecasters say more could be on the way.
“Brisbane’s 130mm of rain was the heaviest December rain since the 1950s,”In the CBD 112mm of rain fell in a single hour last night around midnight.
The rain was extremely localised however. Brisbane Airport saw almost three times less rain than the CBD’s 130mm. Amberley, near Ipswich, saw even less at just 5mm with the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast barely seeing up a drop. Parts of central Brisbane were smashed with more than 10mm of rain in one hour last night. Picture: BOM.The storm delivered hail at Warwick and Applethorpe on the Darling Downs late on Wednesday night before delivering an hour-long drenching in Brisbane.
“The amount of rain we had last night in Brisbane equalled the amount of rain we had in the last six months and all of that almost fell in one hour,” Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Michael Knepp told ABC radio.
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