Australia Remastered: Forces Of Nature – Flood (S1EP2 ABC TV Sun 6 Feb 2022)

Flood: Australian droughts are often followed by flood. It’s a rhythm of life that the country has adapted to. While the inland is still subjected to natural floods, elsewhere the flood regimes are changing. Hosted and narrated by Aaron Pedersen.

Australian droughts are often followed by floods. Cyclones born at sea hit land, then turn into rain bearing depressions.

The average annual rainfall can fall in only a couple of days, and desert country that has been dry for years springs back to life. Many of Australia’s rivers flow inland toward the vast expanse of dry salt known as Kati-Thanda Lake Eyre and it transforms into an inland sea.

Almost overnight myriads of waterbirds arrive, and breed. Frogs lay their eggs, dingoes hunt around the edges. The explosion of life continues as long as there is water. But far away the rain has stopped, the water evaporates. Everything waits for the next rains that could be years off. These floods are natural, elsewhere in Australia the flood regimes are changing.

Production credits: Produced by WildBear Entertainment in association with the ABC.

Airdate: Sunday 6 February 2022 at 6.00pm on ABC TV.

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