Tag: El Niño Southern Oscillation
The east coast rain seems endless. Where on Earth is all the water coming from?
Image: Jason O'Brien/AAP
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...
Back so soon, La Niña? Here’s why we’re copping two soggy summers in a row
Image: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
Last month was Australia’s wettest November on record, and summer in Queensland and parts of New South Wales is also expected to be soggy...
Yes, Australia is a land of flooding rains. But climate change could be making it worse
Etching of the 1867 flood in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley, depicting the Eather family. illustrated Sydney News/author provided
Over the past three years, I’ve been working...
It’s only October, so what’s with all these bushfires? New research explains it
Firefighters battle bushfires in Angourie, northern New South Wales,
on September 10 this year, marking another early start to the season.Jason O'Brien/AAP
Summer might be more...