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THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2025
Australia welcomes drought-easing drenching, even as it brings floods

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Reuters
07 February, 2020, 11:10 am
Last modified: 07 February, 2020, 11:11 am

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Australia welcomes drought-easing drenching, even as it brings floods

Reuters
07 February, 2020, 11:10 am
Last modified: 07 February, 2020, 11:11 am
Pedestrians hold umbrellas during wet weather in Sydney, Australia, February 7, 2020. AAP Image/Peter Rae/via REUTERS
Pedestrians hold umbrellas during wet weather in Sydney, Australia, February 7, 2020. AAP Image/Peter Rae/via REUTERS

The east coast of Australia welcomed the heaviest drenching in years on Friday, dousing some of the country's most damaging and long-running wildfires and easing a drought that has crippled farming across two states.

Sydney alone had seen more than 60 millimeters (2.36 inches) of rain in the past 24 hours and was forecast to receive up to 360 millimeters more by Monday.

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) said on Thursday "they were over the moon" as the total number of active fires across the state fell by 20 in a single day.

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For the first time in months there were no fire warnings and active fires were down to 42, less than half their peak.

Victoria still had 18 bushfire warnings in place, though the rain was steadily making its way down the coast and into the northeast of the state.

Yet with the rain came flooding. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issuing multiple warnings for rivers across Queensland and New South Wales.

The widespread rains will help ease a drought that has stricken the states since 2017, though the BOM has said it would take an entire year of above average rainfall to actually break the drought.

The wet weather has helped douse or slow some wildfires, which have burned through more than 11.7 million hectares (2.8 million acres) of land since September.

The prolonged bushfire season has killed 33 people and an estimated 1 billion native animals. More than 2,500 homes have been destroyed.

Some 3,500 kilometers (2174.8 miles) away to the north west, Cyclone Damien was barreling toward the coast of Western Australia and due to make landfall sometime on Saturday.

Destructive wind gusts of up to 150 kilometres per hour could develop overnight Friday night as the cyclone approaches the coast, and very destructive gusts of up to 230 kilometres per hour were expected at the core on Saturday.

The cyclone is set to graze the world's largest iron ore port, Port Hedland, which was already suffering disruptions from quarantine restrictions for the coronavirus afflicting China, its largest customer.

Miners Rio Tinto and BHP Group said they were monitoring the situation and making preparations.

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