The late Australian cardinal will be honoured with a funeral mass at St Peter’s in Rome later today
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After a week that saw devastating floods in Western Australia, Queensland’s north coast is on alert for potentially life-threatening flash flooding as a monsoon trough brings severe thunderstorms and intense downpours to the region.
The Bureau of Meteorology says six-hour rainfall totals between 100 and 180 mm are likely and isolated 24-hour totals of more than 300mm possible along a 450km stretch of coast between Innisfail and Bowen and inland areas on Saturday and into Sunday, Australian Associated Press reports.
Continue reading…The late Australian cardinal will be honoured with a funeral mass at St Peter’s in Rome later todayGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAfter a week that saw devastating floods in Western Australia, Queensland’s north coast is on alert for potentially life-threatening flash flooding as a monsoon trough brings severe thunderstorms and intense downpours to the region.The Bureau of Meteorology says six-hour rainfall totals between 100 and 180 mm are likely and isolated 24-hour totals of more than 300mm possible along a 450km stretch of coast between Innisfail and Bowen and inland areas on Saturday and into Sunday, Australian Associated Press reports. Continue reading…