Toowoomba sits on Australia’s subtropical east coast, where La Nina years can bring extended, severe rainfall and flooding, most dramatically during the catastrophic 2022 floods that devastated this stretch of coast.
On the Great Dividing Range west of Brisbane, the city suffered a dramatic flash flood in 2011 when a wall of water swept through the central business district. Ex-tropical cyclones and slow-moving coastal low-pressure systems (sometimes called east coast lows) can both stall over the region and produce rainfall totals well beyond what typical storms bring, making radar tracking of these systems especially important for anticipating fast-rising rivers. Learn more: Flash Flood Warning Signs on Radar · Open the full Rain Map