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Steve TurtonThe Conversation |
Australia may enter spring with a highly flammable landscape – and no room for complacency.
The northwest of Australia is one of only a few places in the world that experience tropical cyclones in the desert.
The system is now twice the size it was when it reached far north Queensland, 5,700km and one week ago.
Cyclone Narelle is expected to cross the Queensland coast on Friday morning. It has followed a predictable westward path, which is highly unusual.
Last year, intense rains saw Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre close to full. As Central Australia braces for floods, the salt lake could fill again.
Australia’s northwest is well known for its heat. But this furnace-like area can deliver heatwaves to the southeast, thousands of kilometres away.
Equatorial cyclones are rare. That’s one reason Cyclone Senyar has done so much damage in Indonesia and Malaysia.
The backlash was swift and intense. Now the Bureau of Meteorology will have to make changes to its new website.
Big plans are afoot to turn Northern Australia into Asia’s “food bowl”. But the reality of climate change can’t be ignored.
A second low forming off the NSW coast may have given anxious residents a reprieve by pulling energy away from the huge storm lashing the coast.
New South Wales residents face a rapidly intensifying major storm expected to bring intense winds, rains and high seas.
New South Wales residents face a rapidly intensifying major storm expected to bring intense winds, rains and high seas.
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