Potentially severe thunderstorms could soak parts of Queensland in coming days as wild weather continues across the country’s east.

The destruction from the rainfall over the past week was described as "quite frankly incredible" by David Crisafulli, the premier of Queensland, Australia.

Equatorial cyclones are rare. That’s one reason Cyclone Senyar has done so much damage in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Hello and happy Friday. It's Angus here at the Bureau with the weather forecast for the weekend. And that will be the final weekend of spring because

Parts of Asia including Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines have been pummeled by torrential rain, floods and landslides in the last week due to a series of “rare” weather events which have prompted questions about whether extreme weather is getting worse across the region.

Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow.

Flooding has hit York after heavy rain from Storm Bram pushed the River Ouse close to bursting its banks. Riverside routes have been closed and flood gates activated as water rose to nearly three metres.

Heavy rainfall has unleashed widespread flooding and landslides across Asia, killing more than 1,100 people in a week of destruction for the region, and creating treacherous search and rescue operations for hundreds more still missing.