Tag: Rainfall
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...
Like rivers in the sky: the weather system bringing floods to Queensland will become more likely under climate change
Flooding in Gympie, Queensland, February 26, 2022. AAP Image/Supplied by Brett's Drone Photography
The severe floods in southeast Queensland this week have forced hundreds of residents...
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...
La Niña will give us a wet summer. That’s great weather for mozzies
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The return of the La Niña weather pattern will see a wetter spring and summer in many parts of Australia.
We know mosquitoes...