Officials died on Sunday in heavy floods in the northern Queensland state of Australia, said, “urged thousands of people to urge the torrential rains to go to a high level.”
Queensland officials said that the coastal Hinchinbrook poet was undergoing major floods, which is an area of about 11,000 people in the north 500 km north of the state capital Brisbane. Officials said many suburbs were affected in the nearest city Towns 8.
North Queensland has major deposits of silver, lead, copper and iron ores along with large zinc reserves. The base of the Townsville region is a major processing center for metals. In 2019, severe floods in the region disrupted lead and stopped zinc rail shipment and damaged thousands of properties.
Regional Emergency Management officials said Sunday morning, “Residents in low-to-touched area should collect their withdrawal kits and go to a safe place on high ground. This situation can pose a threat to life and property.”
A low pressure system rich in tropical humidity caused floods due to heavy rains, on its website, the Australian weather forecast said that the 24 -hour total rainfall was likely to be up to 30 cm.
“Heavy, locally acute rainfall and the possibility of harmful winds may be subject to the strength and position of the trough at the beginning of the next week,” it said.
Frequent floods have hit the flood “once a century” in a century east of Australia in recent years, which affected the flood in January 2023 during a multier La Nina weather incident in the neighboring northern region in January 2023. .