A fifth 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 five 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 37-year-old Goomboorian man who went missing in floodwaters near Gympie on Friday night was found by police divers on Saturday, taking the state’s death toll to five. There are fears that number could rise, with a police search underway for an elderly man who was reported falling off …