The intense low pressure system that passed just to the west of the region brought with it winds that gusted well above 100 km/h for some areas, heavy rain, and some record setting high temperatures.
Here, roughly 160 billion tonnes of water flows with each tide, equal to four times the estimated flow of all the freshwater rivers in the world combined
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