Weather Events – Moreton Bay and More

On this day: 1864 – a distant echo of Cyclone Alfred.

On this day in March 1864, a violent weather event hit Brisbane and south-east Queensland. It may have been a tropical cyclone, or ex-tropical cyclone – the vocabulary of extreme weather events had not developed. But the account of the storm and its aftermath, as reported in the Courier, bears a striking resemblance to TropicalContinue reading “On this day: 1864 – a distant echo of Cyclone Alfred.”