Records fell up and down Australia’s east coast as rains, floods and insurance payouts all hit new peaks. As we welcome back the sun to our lives in 2023, what should we do to prepare for the next big wet?
Most states have seen flood emergencies this year, with both urban and regional communities affected.Border communities like Albury-Wodonga and Echuca-Moama were inundated, after heavy rainfall forced Hume Dam operators to increase water releases from the reservoir.The dashed line is the highest ever year-to-date rainfall for each day of the year, before 2022.
Parts of inland NSW have also had remarkably wet years. Months of sustained downpours saw flooding in the Ivanhoe region. Those record-breaking regions along the east coast have seen, in some cases, more than 50 per cent more rain than usual. "What we normally do is we measure these events as they happen and isolate them one by one, but the reality is the floods started in February, March and it basically continued on a rolling pattern every few weeks across the whole east coast," the council's chief executive Andrew Hall says.
And this year has raised questions about our readiness for future natural disasters, given the likelihood we'll see more years as severe as 2022 as we increasingly feel the effects of climate change.
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