Sydney Morning Herald: THE strong La Nina pattern currently transporting moisture to north-eastern Australia has been exaggerated further by record-high ocean temperatures - a combination not seen on this scale since the deadly Brisbane flood of 1974, which claimed at least 14 lives.
And while Queensland's already saturated catchments are lashed with heavy rain, the south-west of Western Australia is experiencing an extreme dry - and bushfires.
''Australia has been known for more than a hundred years as a land of......
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Recipe for disaster
Posted by Sydney Morning Herald: Bridie Smith on January 12th, 2011
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