Ului crossed the QLD coast at Airlie Beach as a category 3 tropical cyclone early on Sunday morning but then weakened rapidly once it made landfall. Ex TC Ului is now tracking through northwest QLD and while winds have eased, it's still continuing to bring heavy rain and flooding to the Central Coast, Capricornia, Central Highlands and Central West districts. In the last 24 hours to 9am this morning, many already rain and wind ravaged towns between Mackay and Rockhampton have recorded over 100mm of rain.
The rain will gradually ease as Ului tracks fruther west and brings patchy rain to the Northern Territory. But many are asking: will this rain will affect flooded southwest and southern QLD? Luckily this rain will only spill into northern parts of those catchments where floodwaters have already receded so they should see little impact from this.
But it will be weeks and even months before the cyclone-hit Whitsundays and coastal towns recover from the structural and economic impact of Ului.
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