Australia, scarred by bushfires, on high alert for dangerous summer
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia on Tuesday declared an El Nino weather pattern was underway as the country’s south-east sweltered in an intense spring heat wave that raised the risks of bushfires and prompted authorities to issue a total fire ban for Sydney. Australia had held off declaring an El Nino but has been bracing for a […]
Australia swelters in spring heat wave, temperatures set to break records
Sydney, AustraliaReuters A spring heat wave across large parts of Australia’s south-east, including Sydney, will intensify on Monday, the weather bureau said, with temperatures expected to peak up to 16 degrees Celsius above the September average. Australia is baking through a rising heat wave which has been building in the country’s outback interior over the […]
Sydney records wettest year since 1858 as Australia braces for more floods
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Sydney recorded its wettest year in 164 years as authorities braced for major floods in Australia’s east on Thursday, with more heavy downpours expected to fall over the next three days. With almost three months of 2022 still to go, Australia’s largest city has recorded 2,200 mm of rain in a year for […]
Sydney faces more rain as death toll from Australian floods rises
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Sydney, Australia’s most populous city that has been drenched in rain for days, braced for more heavy downpours on Sunday as the death toll from flooding across the country’s east rose to 17. A wild weather system that dumped more than a year’s worth of rainfall over a week in southern Queensland and […]
Australia forecasts prolonged wildfire seasons, more droughts from climate change
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia’s climate will continue to warm, resulting in prolonged wildfire seasons and less rain in the south-east and south-west that will lead to more frequent droughts, the country’s weather bureau said on Friday. Australia’s changing climate patterns can be attributed to an increase in greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere […]
Australia rains: Dancing in the street, not so much down on the farm
SydneyReuters The heaviest rains in years have fallen across parts of Australia’s east coast, bringing relief to some struggling livestock farmers, although the showers are not likely to break a drought that has crippled the country’s grains sector. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said some parts of the state of New South Wales received nearly 100 […]