Tropical Cyclone Rusty left flooded rivers and lakes in north-western Australia [1]

The Watchers-by Chillymanjaro-March 5, 2013

Tropical Cyclone Rusty [2] made landfall in northwestern Australia in late February 2013, coming ashore east of Port Hedland and bringing strong winds to the community of Pardoo. Rusty’s heavy rainfall forced Australian Bureau of Meteorology to issue a flood warning for the catchment of the De Gray River on March 4, 2013.

Flooded rivers typically carry heavy loads of sediment, and a sediment plume appeared at the river mouth on March 3/4, 2013. MODIS on NASA’s Aqua [3] satellite captured natural-color imagery of the sediment plume [4] on March 3.

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