Extreme climate and weather events in a warmer world

The world must pull together to create a future in which extreme events, and the damage they cause, remain relatively rare

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The state of weather and climate extremes 2021 – Report

The year 2021 saw a wide range of extreme weather and climate events impacting Australia.

The east coast rain seems endless. Where on Earth is all the water coming from?

At any one time, Earth’s atmosphere holds only about a week’s worth of rain. But rainfall and floods have devastated Australia’s eastern regions for weeks and more heavy rain is forecast. So where’s all this water coming from?

‘One of the most extreme disasters in colonial Australian history’: climate scientists on the floods and our future risk: The Conversation

Andrew King, The University of Melbourne; Linden Ashcroft, The University of Melbourne, and Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, UNSW Sydney The deluge dumped on southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales this week has been catastrophic. Floodwaters peaked at around 14.4 metres high in Lismore – two metres higher than the city’s previous record. So how does this compare to Australia’s previous floods, […]