Floods in Victoria are uncommon. Here’s why they’re happening now – and how they compare to the past

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Title	Floods in Victoria are uncommon. Here’s why they’re happening now – and how they compare to the past
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.vc75ykp4a
Authors	Cook, Margaret
Abstract	Rain has fallen across almost all of Australia’s mainland in the last two weeks. Our rain events are usually regional – not national like this.

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Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	25	48%
Netherlands	1	2%
United Kingdom	1	2%
Zimbabwe	1	2%
Unknown	24	46%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	38	73%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	9	17%
Scientists	4	8%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	1	2%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 155. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 November 2022.

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