Disasters in Australia: List of Disasters in Australia by Death Toll Book

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Disasters in Australia by Death Toll, 2003 Canberra Bushfires, Ash Wednesday Fires, Montara Oil Spill, Federation Drought, 1911-1916 Australian Drought, Black Friday, 1971 Canberra Flood, 1961 Western Australian Bushfires, Eyre Peninsula Bushfire, 1983 Melbourne Dust Storm, Black Christmas, 1994 Eastern Seaboard Fires, Black Sunday. Excerpt: The 1911-1916 Australian drought consisted of a series of droughts that affected various regions of Australia between the years of 1911 and 1916. Most of the dry spells during this period can be related to three El Niño events in 1911, 1913 and 1914, though rainfall deficiencies actually began in northern Australia before the first of these El Niños set in and did not ease in coastal districts of New South Wales until well after the last El Niño had firmly dissipated and trends toward very heavy rainfall developed in other areas of the continent.The years before the drought had generally been had satisfactory rainfall and impressive crop yields throughout most of the continent except Gippsland , coastal districts of New South Wales and southeastern Queensland where the rainfall deficiencies of the Federation Drought had never disappeared at any point during the decade of the 1900s.1911 At the beginning of the year, a strong La Niña event was producing heavy rain over eastern Australia. January was the wettest on record in Sydney, and February was a phenomenally wet month in Victoria and southwestern New South Wales, with places like Pooncarie on the lower Darling River recording 190 millimetres (7.5 in) for the month. Averaged over Victoria, February 1911 stands as the third-wettest month since 1885 after October 1975 and February 1973. Heavy monsoonal rain drenched Queensland throughout the summer. These months, however, were virtu...