Emergency Crews Make Most of Brief Reprieve in Wild Weather

Marine wind warnings have extended as far as Queensland in the wake of wild weather along Australia’s east coast.

State Emergency Service Tasmania personnel conduct operations at Mersey in Tasmania, Australia, Aug. 31, 2024. AAP Image/Supplied by Tasmania State Emergency Service

Emergency crews are making use of a brief break in wild weather across Australia’s east coast to conduct clean-ups and warn some communities of potential flooding in the aftermath.

It was a brutal start to spring as destructive winds battered Australia’s east coast, claiming the life of a 63-year-old woman at a holiday park in Moama on the New South Wales (NSW)-Victoria border.