Greenpeace AotearoaDec 19, 2023

Queensland’s record-breaking floods are a frightening portent of what’s to come under climate change

https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/cyclone-jasper-and-climate-change/

#CycloneJasper #climate #climatechange #flooding

Cyclone Jasper and climate change - Greenpeace Aotearoa

Unprecedented rain brought by Tropical Cyclone Jasper has triggered widespread flooding in far north Queensland, forcing thousands of people to evacuate. Cairns airport is closed, roads are extensively damaged, and…

Greenpeace Aotearoa
spmatich vk3spm Dec 18, 2023

"He said some scientists were now advising that for Australia, planners should consider that each degree of warming could increase rainfall by as much as 15%."
#CycloneJasper #GlobalHeating #el_niño

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/19/cyclone-jasper-how-did-it-cause-so-much-rain-and-could-global-heating-be-to-blame

Cyclone Jasper: how did it cause so much rain and could global heating be to blame?

It hit the coast as a category two cyclone and took almost five days to move west, leaving a metre of rain and devastated communities in its wake

The Guardian
Copernicus EUDec 18, 2023

RT by @CopernicusEU: #ImageOfTheDay

Record rains 🌧️ after the passage of tropical #CycloneJasper have caused severe flooding in #Queensland 🇦🇺

Power outages affect +10,000 people, and damage is extensive

⬇️Flooded areas south of Cairns are visible in the #Sentinel1 image of 16 December

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CopernicusEU/status/1736705108107202845#m

[2023-12-18 11:08 UTC]

YouStormDec 17, 2023
Tropical Cyclone #Jasper 🌀, stall and decay over the northeastern Queensland🇦🇺 coast has brought huge amounts of rain and floods to places like Cairns. The last 6 days in infrared #CycloneJasper
Whiskers 🇦🇺Dec 16, 2023
It blows my mind how much energy must be involved in lifting that much water up from the ocean into the clouds 🤔
#CycloneJasper #weather #Cairns
Show threadkaffandoDec 13, 2023
Even on the Queensland page of the @ABC "NEWS" website, it has this...the last report was 11 hours ago.
#CycloneJasper
Show threadZoom EarthDec 13, 2023

The sun sets on Tropical Cyclone #Jasper over Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Current wind speed more than 110 km/h.

#CycloneJasper #weather #WX

Show threadZoom EarthDec 13, 2023

Today’s view of Tropical Cyclone #Jasper near Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Wind speed over 110 km/h.

#CycloneJasper #weather #WX

Margaret DahlstromDec 13, 2023
Buy bananas today! Remember Cyclone Yasi ...
#CycloneJasper
SouDec 12, 2023

Cyclone Jasper is hitting the coast of Far North Queensland.

It's currently a category one weather system, with a chance it could intensify to a category two. (It got up to cat 4 then tapered off I believe)

Landfall is expected later this afternoon (Australian Eastern Time - Queensland time).

Could be around Port Douglas - between Cairns and Cooktown.

Images from BoM and earth.nullschool.net

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#Jasper #Cyclone #CycloneJasper #Australia #Queensland