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The growing threat of flash flooding as a result of more intense rapid rain bursts means the city needs to update its flood defences.
These temperatures are well below average, even for the middle of winter.
Parts of southeast Australia are inundated yet again. Clearly, short-term weather forecasts are not enough to protect communities in times like these.
Weather radar archives hold decades of data about the movements of birds and other flying animals.
Twice every day the Bureau of Meteorology sends out the official weather forecasts for towns and cities across Australia. Here’s how we work out what to say in them.
Don’t believe the skeptics or the conspiracy theorists: Weather forecasters can’t slant hurricane warnings to make political points.
A government proposal for weather radars to share frequencies with telecommunications providers has prompted fears for the accuracy of the Bureau of Meteorology’s weather radar.
New “dual-pol” weather radars promise to spot large hailstones forming inside thunderstorms, giving people a heads-up when it’s about to hail.
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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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