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This year’s Sierra snowpack is looking a lot like 1983’s, and that was a year of flooding and mudslide disasters. A meteorologist explains what’s ahead.
Cyclone Ilsa has intensified off the Western Australian coast and is now classed as a category-five system. How did this happen?
Researchers are turning to computer models, drones and other methods to improve tornado forecasting.
An expert explains why the UK’s winter has been relatively calm.
The Met Office has predicted that England is to be affected by flooding this February.
The growing threat of flash flooding as a result of more intense rapid rain bursts means the city needs to update its flood defences.
Storm Fiona caused a lot of property damage and erosion on the Canadian coast. But its effects are also felt in the depths of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Processes like La Niña set the scene for the sort of extreme weather that has hit eastern Australia. But what decides which towns and suburbs are hit hardest, and which ones are spared?
Coastal hospitals are still at high risk, nearly two decades after Hurricane Katrina’s flood disaster at Memorial Medical Center shocked the world.
Hurricanes don’t usually maintain high wind speeds as they make their way toward Atlantic Canada. But ocean warming may be linked to the increasing intensity of storms like Fiona.
A project to transcribe Dutch colonial records of the weather in Cape Town can benefit modelling of future climate scenarios and assist in forecasting weather now.
Are severe and extreme weather events on the rise? And does this have anything to do with manmade climate change? The simple answer is: it’s complicated.
Storms and flash floods often follow a heatwave.
It’s not just mosquitos. Flooding, extreme heat and other climate-related hazards are bringing people into contact with pathogens more often, and affecting people’s ability to fight off disease.
The Met Office issued its heatwave warning six days before the mercury peaked – potentially saving many lives.
Popular belief suggests the highest tides in the St. Lawrence River are reached around the equinoxes. In truth, they arrive close to the solstices.
You can’t photograph the inside of a twister, but radar offers some clues.
Simply providing passive information is not enough. Governments must find better ways to deliver important messages about natural hazards.
Parts of southeast Australia are inundated yet again. Clearly, short-term weather forecasts are not enough to protect communities in times like these.
Top contributors
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Research Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science and Colorado State Climatologist, Colorado State University
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Meteorology, Central Michigan University
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Professor of Physical Geography, James Cook University
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Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Principal Research Scientist, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Geography, Middle Tennessee State University
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
