A sixth person has died in southeast Queensland’s worst floods in a decade, which have triggered the evacuation of hundreds of people and cut off towns and suburbs. The region is being pummelled by multiple severe thunderstorms from a low-pressure trough which has been sitting over the state’s southeast for six days. The Australian Bureau of Meterology said in a Feb. 15 update that while its modelling predicts that La Niña has peaked, its influence “will persist until mid-autumn.” In Australia, La Niña is associated with wetter than average conditions with an increased potential for flooding. Major Flooding The body of a 34-year-old man has been found in Brisbane’s inner west suburb of Indooroopilly after his car became submerged in floodwaters early Sunday morning, taking the state’s death toll to six. Earlier on Saturday, a 37-year-old Goomboorian man who went missing in floodwaters near Gympie on Friday night was found …