SEVERE tropical cyclone Kirrily made landfall on the north Queensland coast as a Category 2 system on the evening of 25 January between Townsville and Ingham, before being downgraded to a tropical low as it moved south-west towards inland Queensland.
Ex-tropical cyclone Kirrily remained slow moving over Queensland, feeding tropical moisture across central and south-eastern areas of the state and north-eastern New South Wales, bringing heavy rain and thunderstorms.
Monsoonal conditions continued to impact the tropical north during the week and brought days of heavy rainfall and flooding…