Australia receives a bittersweet bush fires reprieve with floods, cyclone
The prolonged bush fire season has killed 33 people and an estimated 1 billion native animals.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued severe thunderstorm warnings for the southeast Queensland state, while parts of New South Wales state were inundated during flash floods caused by heavy rainfall that is expected to continue for several days. “We are expecting those larger totals and heavier rainfall to come into the northeast coast of NSW and then sort of track slowly southwards.”
The cooler and wetter weather has helped douse or slow some of the country’s most damaging and long-running wildfires, which have burned through more than 11.7 million hectares of land since September.About 2 500 homes have been destroyed.
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