{"id":544210,"date":"2026-03-16T14:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544210\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:34:17","slug":"flooding-in-the-daintree-after-sunday-morning-deluge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544210\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding in the Daintree after Sunday morning deluge"},"content":{"rendered":"

A surge of very moist\u00a0southeasterly\u00a0winds is bringing heavy rain to Qld’s North Tropical Coast district\u00a0today, Sunday 15th\u00a0March.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Locations around Daintree and Mossman have been hardest hit, with Mossman Treatment Plant, Rex Creek Intake,\u00a0Yandill,\u00a0Whyanbeel\u00a0Creek and Bairds producing 345mm, 337mm, 299mm, 285mm and 264mm respectively in the 12 hours to noon today.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Almost a quarter (73mm) of\u00a0Yandill’s\u00a0299mm\u00a0total fell in just the single hour to 8am AEST. A similar amount fell in the 60 minutes to 9am AEST over Low Isles Lighthouse, contributing almost 40% of the site’s daily rainfall total (184.4mm). You can just see the Low\u00a0Isles outlined\u00a0to the east of Wonga Beach and Mossman in the image below, under a heavy rainband (yellow to red\u00a0colour).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"20260315_sat\"\/Image: Satellite and radar imagery showing a heavy rainband over the Low Isles and Daintree area at 9:50am AEDT (8:50 AEST) on Sunday, March 15, 2026. Source:\u00a0Weatherzone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the rainfall at\u00a0Bairds, as well as\u00a0additional\u00a0rainfall in the surrounding area, has contributed to a sharp rise in the Daintree River level, currently standing at 10.9m at\u00a0Bairds\u00a0and 7.25m at Daintree Village at the time of writing. As such, a flood warning is currently in place for these locations, with moderate flood levels expected to persist overnight Sunday into Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"20260315_rivers\"\/<\/p>\n

Image: River conditions at 2:45pm AEST, showing moderate flooding (amber triangles) along the Daintree River at\u00a0Bairds\u00a0and Daintree Village, with minor flooding occurring at a few other locations between Mossman and Innisfail. Source: Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Further south,\u00a0Cairns\u00a0airport saw its wettest\u00a0March day\u00a0in 8 years, with\u00a0193.4mm\u00a0falling in the gauge to 9am today, almost half the airport’s March monthly average.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From tomorrow, there will be a reprieve from these torrential conditions as southeasterly winds ease. However, there are signs that a tropical low or low-end tropical cyclone could cross the North Tropical Coast late this week, bringing a fresh deluge and renewed river level rises\u00a0to the region. There is still plenty of uncertainty with that system\u00a0at the moment, so make sure you stay up to date with warnings\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0over the coming days.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A surge of very moist\u00a0southeasterly\u00a0winds is bringing heavy rain to Qld’s North Tropical Coast district\u00a0today, Sunday 15th\u00a0March.\u00a0\u00a0 Locations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-544210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}