Australia UP Singapore by saying 1 in 100 years event

[Watchman]

Monday, January 10, 2011
Queensland, AUS - 1 in 100 year storm
A 1 in 100 year storm, that's not quite normal now, is it?

Quoting the "Courier Mail" here:


WEATHER Bureau chief Jim Davidson described the downpour that caused the fatal Toowoomba and Lockyer Valley floods as a super storm.
Mr Davidson said reports were received of 80mm of rain falling in just over 30 minutes, but he suspected falls of up to 200mm would have occurred in areas where rain gauges were not set up.
The area was primed for a flood by substantial wet weather, soaked soil which could take no more and 100mm falling in the area on Monday.
The bureau had been tracking the storm and as the intense event unfolded had sent out a severe weather warning for flash flooding.
As forecasters became aware of the scale of the event, this was upgraded to a flood warning and local authorities notified.
``We don't always have the capacity to see this before it happens,'' Mr Davidson said.
He said the extraordinary flood was on a one-in-100-year event and the volume of water caught most people by surprise.
Falling on the top of the Great Dividing Range as it did, caused dramatic downstream deluge in the Lockyer Valley.
A senior police officer said the flood occurred so quickly that the priority for emergency services was to go straight into action, rather than waiting to send out warnings.
Mr Davidson said a review would be conducted to look at whether the bureau could do better at predicting such events or if improvements could be made to the warning system.
The outlook for southeast Queensland weather was improving. Heavy falls were expected to reduce to showers tomorrow.

Things are not looking good there!

 

[Maximilian Chua-Heng]

So the odds of such a flood is 1% (1/100) OR .00274% (1/36500)?

Any statistician care to shed some light here?

 

[uncleyap]

Australia can say that rightfully but not SGP. By the fact that their flood area and depth is SOOOO MANY TIMES the size of red dot.

Can not compare in different scale.

Our red dot is only a tiny island if it could stay afloat in Australian flood water.

 

[Watchman]

 

[BusNo64]

Queensland is a state of Australia that occupies the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. The state is Australia's second largest by area, following Western Australia, and the country's third most populous after New South Wales and Victoria.

The area was first occupied by Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, who arrived between 40,000 and 65,000 years ago, according to various dating methods.[3] Later, Queensland was made a British Crown Colony that was separated from New South Wales on 6 June 1859, a date now celebrated state-wide as Queensland Day.

The area that currently forms the state capital, Brisbane, was originally the Moreton Bay penal colony, intended as a place for recidivist convicts who had offended while serving out their sentences in New South Wales. The state later encouraged free settlement, and today Queensland's economy is dominated by the agricultural, tourist and natural resource sectors.

The state's population is concentrated in South East Queensland, which includes Brisbane, Logan City, Redland City, Ipswich, Toowoomba, and the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. Other major regional centres include Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Ingham and Mount Isa.

Queensland is often nicknamed the Sunshine State, since it enjoys warm weather and a sizeable portion of the state is in the tropics.

Etymology

The state was named in honour of Queen Victoria,[4] who on 6 June 1859 signed a proclamation separating the state from New South Wales. At the time, Queen Victoria was a generally popular monarch, and she preferred an eponymous name for the new colony over Cooksland, which had been suggested by the influential local Presbyterian minister John Dunmore Lang in honour of English navigator James Cook.[5][6]
[edit] History
Main article: History of Queensland

The history of Queensland spans thousands of years, encompassing both a lengthy indigenous presence, as well as the eventful times of post-European settlement. Estimated to have been settled by Indigenous Australians approximately 40,000 years ago, the north-eastern Australian region was explored by Dutch, Portuguese and French navigators before being encountered by Captain James Cook in 1770. The Australian Labor Party has its origin as a formal organisation in Queensland and the town of Barcaldine is the symbolic birthplace of the party.[7] The state has witnessed frontier warfare between European settlers and Indigenous inhabitants, as well as the employment of cheap Kanaka labour sourced from the South Pacific. June 2009 marked the 150 anniversary of its creation as a separate colony from New South Wales.[8]

Main article: Geography of Queensland

Queensland is bordered to the north by the Torres Strait with Boigu Island off the coast of New Guinea representing the absolute northern extreme of the territory. The triangular Cape York Peninsula, which points toward New Guinea is the northernmost part of the state's mainland. West of the peninsula's tip, northern Queensland is bordered by the Gulf of Carpentaria, while the Coral Sea— an arm of the Pacific Ocean— borders Queensland to the east. To the west, Queensland is bordered by the Northern Territory, at the 138°E longitude, and to the south-west by the north-eastern corner of South Australia.

In the south, there are three sections that comprise its border: the watershed from Point Danger to the Dumaresq River; the river section involving the Dumaresq, the MacIntyre and the Barwon; and 29°S latitude (including some minor historical encroachments below the 29th parallel) over to the South Australian border.

The state capital is Brisbane, located on the coast 100 kilometres (60 mi) by road north of the New South Wales border. The fifth-largest city by area in the world, Mount Isa, is located in Queensland. The city area is in excess of 40,000 square kilometres (15,400 sq mi). The state is divided into several officially recognised regions. Other smaller geographical regions of note include the Atherton Tablelands, the Granite Belt, and the Channel Country in the far south-west.

Queensland has many places of natural beauty, including: the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast having some of the state's most popular beaches; the Bunya Mountains and the Great Dividing Range with numerous lookouts, waterfalls and picnic areas; Carnarvon Gorge; Whitsunday Islands and Hinchinbrook Island.

The state contains six World Heritage listed preservation areas: Australian Fossil Mammal Sites at Riversleigh in the Gulf Country, Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, Fraser Island, Great Barrier Reef, Lamington National Park and the Wet Tropics of Queensland.

 

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