Exclusive: Independent sources were seeing ‘a very concerning forecast’ at the same time as residents were headed for home
Two of the Bureau of Meteorology’s highest-resolution forecasting models showed the dangerous storm that flooded Lismore this week returning to the area, at the same time as relieved residents were heading home after an evacuation order was lifted.
When the acting New South Wales premier, Paul Toole, addressed media on Wednesday, after Lismore’s CBD was evacuated for the second time in 24 hours, he said “no one could have predicted some of the amounts of rainfall that we have seen land”.