Overview
- Record or near‑record totals were logged across the region, including 121 mm at Wirrulla, 103 mm at Minnipa and 75 mm at Ceduna in SA, 126 mm at Horsham in 48 hours, and Mildura’s wettest March day on record at 65.8 mm.
- The Bureau of Meteorology has active severe weather alerts and flood watches across large parts of SA, Victoria and NSW, with a fresh warning for dangerous flash flooding across the ACT and southern NSW on Monday night.
- Emergency services ramped up preparations, with SA SES distributing more than 83,000 sandbags and urging residents to avoid floodwater as authorities plan for unpredictable, locally intense rainfall.
- The prolonged event has already inundated inland areas, closing roads and disrupting rail, with NT and federal disaster declarations in place and at least one confirmed death in the NT during the extreme weather period.
- Northern Queensland faces several more wet days under a strengthening monsoon, with two tropical lows being monitored and one Coral Sea system given a 25% chance of developing into a cyclone by Friday.