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Wet enough? You’d better get used to it, with ‘another Yasi’ on the way

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Thursday December 17, 2020

Recent severe weather is a sign of what is to come this summer, the Bureau of Meteorology says, with the current La Niña event set to become almost as strong as the system that brought major flooding to Queensland nearly a decade ago.

The foreshore of Tully Heads was devastated by a storm surge whipped up by Cyclone Yasi in 2011. Photo: ABC

Over the weekend, wet weather delivered parts of Queensland hundreds of millimetres of rain, dangerous tides and coastal erosion.

Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) manager of environmental prediction Victoria Dodds said severe weather…



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