Mass evacuations are under way across flooded Queensland with disasters declared in the inland towns of Theodore, Dalby and Chinchilla.

Residents in the Australian state of Victoria remain on emergency alert for flooding today.

Reports are calling NSW's floods the worst inundation to hit the state in 50 years.

Flooding in NSW looks set to cost the state and federal governments billions of dollars in relief.

Torrential rain and gale-force winds have battered the English county of Cornwall.

Photos from the flooding in Gisborne.

Storms have dumped tonnes of water on to Queensland in the last three days.

Rain has worsened flooding on a Canterbury farm where a river has forked along an earthquake fault line, cutting through the property.

Weary Canterbury farmers picking themselves up from days of earthquakes and aftershocks face new threats.

About 600 properties face isolation as floodwaters continue to rise in northern Victoria, Australia.

The heavy rain that caused slips and surface flooding in the lower North Island is expected to stop this afternoon but many roads in the area are still closed.