Brisbane Floods in Historical Context

Roger Pielke, Jr.
"The graph above shows flood peaks in Brisbane from 1841 to 2011. The data comes from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, which published this chart in November 2010. I added the red bar showing the peak of the current flood at the same location -- at about 4.5 m -- found at this site at the Bureau of Meteorology.

Here is how a BoM report (PDF) following the 1974 flood described the historical context, and offered a prescient warning"