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While the east coast has flooded, other areas see below average rainfall as climate crisis means ‘the wet getting wetter and the dry getting drier’
An ‘atmospheric river’ in the skies over Brisbane contained almost 16 times the amount of water in Sydney harbour
Australia's hidden history of megadroughts captured in ancient tree rings By Ben Deacon © Provided by ABC NEWS South-west Western Australia experienced droughts of more than 30 years in past centuries, a new study shows. (ABC News: Andrew O'Connor) Scientists analysing growth rings of 700-year-old in native cypress trees in Western Australia's Wheatbelt say the region suffered a series of megadroughts lasting up to 30 years in past centuries. The study has also suggested the region was comparatively blessed with rain during the 20th century. Climatologist Alison O'Donnell...
Advertisement Climate change added as much as 1.7 degrees of warming to Australia's record hot spring, dwarfing the role of natural variability, analysis by the National Environmental Science Program shows. Australia's average mean temperatures in spring were 2.03 degrees above the 1961-90 average, exceeding the previous warmest spring in 2014 by almost a quarter of a degree, the Bureau of Meteorology said. Spring ended with some severe heatwave conditions but for the season as a whole it was also remarkably warm. Credit:Andrew Miskelly, via Weatherzone The warmth was particularly unusual bec...