Parts of drought-declared Outback Queensland are celebrating what may well be a record-breaking rainfall.
Urandangi in the north-west of the state looks set to surpass its highest daily ever total of 162 millimetres which fell in 1957. Publican Pam Forster says dust bowls in the region have quickly turned into lakes and says the flooding rain has been ‘wonderful’.
“You just see water laying everywhere where you normally just see dry, dusty ground, no matter which way I look off the verandah there’s just water everywhere,” she said. “I just hope people stay put and don’t drive around and cut the area up and it’s just wonderful to see, it’s so exciting.”
Bureau of Meteorology forecaster, Jess Carey, told the ABC the heaviest falls were at Urandangi but other areas in the northwest, as well as areas around Gladstone and Emerald, received between 25mm and 100mm.
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