The losses for farmers from the floods were likely to be in the “hundreds of millions of dollars” he said. “It’s like the flicking of a switch — it’s been dry, dry, dry and then suddenly you get a year’s worth of rain in 37 days,” he told AFP. Farmer Rachael Anderson said she expected that some 200 cattle at a station she manages near Julia Creek township have so far died. What’s really getting to me at the moment is people saying: ‘You asked for the rain, you got it’. Australia’s tropical north typically experiences heavy rains during the monsoon season, but the recent downpours have flooded highways, towns and turned roads into rivers.

Source: The Guardian February 06, 2019 08:48 UTC