AFTER only two days of autumn, southern and eastern Queensland has been awash with flooding rain, in some cases the wettest in almost 100 years.
The rainfall on Tuesday was focused in two main areas: the Sunshine Coast and the Maranoa district.
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Fr om Noosa to Golden Beach and as far inland as Maleny rainfall totals were generally in excess of 120 millimetres in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday.
Maroochydore picked up 144mm, the wettest day in 11 months and already its entire March average rainfall. Nambour recorded 160mm, the wettest since last April.
Further inland, Mitchell collected a total of 165mm, the wettest day in 96 years, almost three times the monthly average in one day.
Other notable totals were Surat, coming in at 154mm, and Charleville, with 138mm.
Why so much rain? A low and trough, previously part of a monsoonal system, have stalled over southern Queensland, drawing in tropical moisture and dumping it on the earth beneath.
This system will spread rain into NSW during Tuesday, but with plenty of rain still falling over the Darling Downs.
Another low is developing off the Southeast Coast, and is likely to cause more very heavy falls, as well as damaging wind gusts.
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