Media Briefing Major Rain Event/Flooding

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Hi all, the Police and Emergency Management Qld held a Media briefing session around lunch time today to advise the media outlets of the current and short fore seeable outlook of this present weather event.

If interested it can be seen at..http://www.facebook.com/QueenslandPolice#!Queenslandpolice?

There have also been reports that the Somerset and Wivenhoe catchment areas have recieved substantial rain periods over night and the likelyhood is that the Bremer River catchment may recieve substantial rainfall tomorrow.

2nd hand info told me the Stanley River at Peachester was rising rapidly and at noon today,water was approximately 1 metre under the crossing at Mt. Crosby weir and rising.

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Theres alot of people on this site who like to have a flick around our local creeks and less frequented waterway areas,please take care over the next few days as these creeks can rise very quickly from rain fall further up stream that your unaware of.

FLOOD WARNING FOR COASTAL STREAMS FROM MARYBOROUGH TO THE NSW BORDER

Issued at 2:48 PM on Sunday the 9th of January 2011

by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane.

Very heavy rainfall is being recorded in a rainband that stretches from Gympie

to the northern suburbs of Brisbane and inland to Dalby. Totals of up to 25 to

50 millimetres have been recorded in the last hour within this rainband with the

heaviest rainfall currently in the upper reaches of the Caboolture River and

Kilcoy Creek.

This rainband is expected to move south during this afternoon and during Sunday

night. Fast rises and flash flooding are possible during tonight in the

Caboolture and Pine River catchments and in the Brisbane Metropolitan creeks.

A flood warning is current for the Mary River, Sunshine Coast Streams, Upper

Brisbane and Lower Brisbane Rivers.

The heaviest rainfall during the 6 hours to 3pm Sunday includes Wamuran 94mm, Mt

Mee 99mm and Maleny 92mm.

Next Issue:

The next warning will be issued at about 7pm.