This vegetation map reveals that plants in southeastern Australia’s Wheatbelt were flourishing under abundant spring rains.
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Rivers in Australia’s Fitzroy Basin are swollen in this false-color image acquired on January 4, 2011.
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This color-coded map shows rainfall amounts over northeastern Australia from late February to late March 2012.
Land Floods
After two years of severe drought, abundant rain finally fell over the Australian state and turned the landscape green.
This vegetation image from March 2010 shows lush vegetation growing in Australia’s interior, where developing swarms of locusts had been spotted.
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Tropical Cyclone Billy continued traveling along Western Australia's Kimberley Coast .
Atmosphere Severe Storms
This image, from February 4, 2011, shows that ex-cyclone Yasi maintained its distinctive spiral shape after two days moving over Australia’s eastern coast and interior.
Weeks of rainfall pounded Queensland in January and February 2019, causing destructive flooding in the region.
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Bushfire counts dipped in mid-January when much-needed rainfall poured down on New South Wales and Victoria.
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A season of extremes in eastern Australia took another dramatic turn in mid-February 2020.
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Though water levels had started to subside, the Australian city of Rockhampton was still inundated when this image was taken on January 7, 2011.
Flood waters swelled rivers along the Queensland-New South Wales border in early February 2013.
Land Water Floods
Weeks after rain fell in northern Queensland, floodwaters have traveled hundreds of kilometers to parched areas in the southwest of the state.
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When the rainstorm ended in southeast Australia, a brown plume emerged from the Brisbane River.
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This color-coded map shows rainfall amounts associated with Tropical Cyclone Yasi from January 28 to February 3, 2011.
Flood waters continued flowing downstream in New South Wales in mid-December 2011.