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Displaying 4 of about 4 resultsEastern Australia is currently gripped by a prolonged and devastating drought, with no relief in sight. Parts of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland are currently experiencing their driest conditions on record over certain time periods. Some of the largest rainfall deficiencies have occurred in the Macquarie, Namoi–Peel, and Border Rivers c…
… year was a time of exceptional weather and record-breaking heat according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s annual climate … Climate Statements relating to “extreme” and “abnormal” heat, and reported a number of broken climate records. One of … warming climate. The year ended with some record-breaking heat events. Perhaps the most significant of these was the …
… new report, ‘Dangerous Summer: Escalating Bushfire, Heat and Drought Risk‘, has found this summer is shaping up … have severe effects on human health, including both direct heat illnesses (e.g. heat exhaustion) and indirect impacts (e.g. cardiovascular …
… By Somini Sengupta [...] Heat and drought extremes are consistent with scientific … be a result of warming, strangely enough. [...] Extreme heat, though, is the bigger problem overall. Heat records have been broken twice as often as cold records …