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Parts of Australia's east face severe thunderstorms for the second straight day on Sunday, the weather bureau warned, with heavy rains raising the risk of dangerous flash flooding. In the last 24 ...
Originally the expense of such instruments caused only sporadic development. However a small set of sensors in the U.S. employed during a 1979 project by NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory grew into the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN), achieving nationwide coverage in 1989. [15]
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Ten people were killed in Australia after severe thunderstorms battered the country's east over the Christmas holidays, authorities said on Wednesday, with tens of thousands of ...
The Australian monsoon (AUM), also known as the Australian summer monsoon (ASM), [2] and the Australian-Indonesian monsoon (AIM), [3] is a monsoon system that increases thunderstorms and rainfall over many areas of Indonesia and northern Australia, from the far northern tropics of the region to the semi-arid zone of Australia, typically between ...
5 January 1863 is Sydney's first recorded 40 °C (104 °F) day, when the mercury hit 41.6 °C (106.9 °F) at Sydney's Observatory Hill. [11]During January 1896, a state wide heatwave blasted through NSW and caused the mercury in Sydney to hit 40.7 °C (105.3 °F) on the 6th and 42.5 °C (108.5 °F) on the 13th, this ended Sydney's longest streak of days under 40.0 °C (104.0 °F) which lasted ...
Australia is bracing for an intense heatwave across its north and west during the New Year's holiday weekend with temperatures forecast to touch more than 45 degrees Celsius (113°F), while severe ...
13 February 2024 - Severe thunderstorms sweep the state, causing power outages to over half a million households across Victoria. Public transportation services around metropolitan Melbourne are also heavily disrupted as multiple train lines suffer damage from the storms. 1 person died in these storms while on a farm in Mirboo North. [49]
There were heavy storms (and a possible tornado) [5] which hit Canberra, and the surrounding New South Wales region, on 2 December 2005. The storms were the worst emergency to hit Canberra since the 2003 Canberra bushfires. [6] The storms caused much damage to houses and property, and one man was killed by a falling tree in the suburb of Curtin ...