Drenching wet-season rains led to extensive flooding throughout much of Australia between January and March 2009. The most widespread flooding was in Queensland.
The extensive flooding that surrounded Normanton, Australia, had largely subsided by March 25, 2009, when the Advanced Land Imager on the EO-1 satellite captured this image.
This pair of natural-color and infrared-enhanced images from the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite reveal that floods still surrounded much of the Queensland town of Normanton on the morning of March 12, 2009.
Water flowed through Australia’s Channel Country on February 18, 2009, as seasonal rivers and wetlands filled in response to seasonal rains in Australia's north.
During the first two weeks of January 2009, torrential rains brought both drought relief and severe flooding to parts of Queensland and Northern Territory in northern Australia.