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The unpredictability of hurricanes makes it hard to say for sure whether climate change is making them worse. But we do know that sea-level rise and increased evaporation will worsen the impacts.
The global tropical climate zone is expanding. At the current rate, by 2100 its edge will stretch from Sydney to Perth.
The record floods of 1954 and 1974 still stand as Lismore’s high-water marks. But Tropical Cyclone Debbie delivered her deluge far more abruptly than the rains that triggered those historic floods.
Sydney, Melbourne and many other areas can expect to pay more for veg from next month, after widespread crop losses in Bowen, a major source of winter vegetables such as tomatoes, beans and capsicum.
The category 4 cyclone - the fifth storm of this year’s season, and the strongest so far - has buffeted the Queensland coast across a wide area centred on Airlie Beach.
In southern Africa there’s been a southward shift in the occurrence of tropical cyclones in the region. This is due to sea temperatures increasing as a result of global warming.
Australia is facing an above-average cyclone season, with at least 11 cyclones likely in the region.
In an attempt to better understand hurricanes, researchers recreate hundreds of years of hurricane records with Spanish shipwreck logs and tree ring data.
Everybody wants a quick shorthand for a storm’s damage potential. But the index we hear used most often isn’t the best option.
We’re no longer caught off guard when hurricanes make landfall, the way people were into the early 1900s. Better communications, measurements and observations all feed into better forecasts and more warning.
Forecasting successes can breed complacency in the general public. But all hurricane damage isn’t necessarily contained within the “cone of uncertainty.”
Natural disasters are becoming more frequent, with more people with less money exposed to a greater number of hazards.
A causal relationship between cyclone behaviour and anthropogenic global warming is a very real possibility. But most climate scientists hesitate to attribute any single event to global warming.
The devastation to Vanuatu left in the wake of Cyclone Pam shows small islands in the Pacific need a climate insurance scheme, similar to what has been achieved in the Caribbean.
We now have more people, infrastructure and assets exposed where tropical cyclones make landfall.
Emergency services are using social media to help spread warnings as two tropical cyclones batter Australia. It can also help them with relief efforts once the worst of the severe weather has passed.
The average latitude at which tropical cyclones attain their maximum intensity has undergone a significant shift towards…
During Queensland’s preparations for Severe Tropical Cyclone Ita, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman advised residents who lived in older houses (those built before 1985) to evacuate their homes as they…
The number of tropical cyclones hitting Queensland and Western Australia has fallen to low levels not seen for more than 500 years, new research published in Nature shows. But while that’s seemingly great…
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Physical Geography, James Cook University
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Head of Operational Climate Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Honorary Climate Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor – Hydroclimatology, University of Newcastle
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Newcastle
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PhD Candidate, climate change science, Nagasaki University
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Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Mississippi State University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Associate Professor of Meteorology, Florida State University
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Professor of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, University of Tasmania
