Updated
March 05, 2020 11: 05: 30
The outback town of Thargomindah has broken its 21-year-old record for its wettest day as torrential rain sweeps across drought-declared western Queensland.
Ex-cyclone Esther is combining with an upper trough to bring days of rain, with grass shoots starting to turn dustbowls green.
Rivers are experiencing major floods and homesteads are cut off as records tumble across the region.
Thargomindah airport has had about 128 millimetres since 9: 00am yesterday, breaking its record for a 24-hour-period, which was set in 1999, when tracking began there