State of the Climate 2024: How is Australia faring?
Australia is enduring harsher fire seasons, more ocean heatwaves and sea-level rise.
Australia is enduring harsher fire seasons, more ocean heatwaves and sea-level rise.
It’s winter in Australia, but as you’ve probably noticed, the weather is unusually warm. The top temperatures over large parts of the country this weekend were well above average for this time of year.
Survival on the roof of mainland Australia was an unenviable but necessary challenge that tested the endurance skills of 19th-century weather forecasters.
Tropical Cyclone Jasper has caused extreme rainfall in far north Queensland of more than 2m, leading to severe flooding across the region, forcing evacuations and leaving residents stranded.
The weather bureau has declared an El Niño event, meaning severe heat this summer in Australia.
An El Niño event has arrived, according to the World Meteorological Organization, raising fears of record high global temperatures, extreme weather and, in Australia, a severe fire season.
Although they’ve been around for millennia, atmospheric rivers were only discovered by humans during the past 25 years.
More catastrophic bushfire seasons are being predicted, despite two years of deluges along the eastern seaboard.