Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Climate forecast for Australia: hot days, higher fire risk, more severe droughts

Click here to access article by Paul Farrell from The Guardian.

Extreme weather events seem to be occurring over all the world, but it seems that nowhere are they as frequent and extreme as in Australia.
“The duration, frequency and intensity of heatwaves have increased across many parts of Australia, based on daily temperature records since 1950, when coverage is sufficient for heatwave analysis. Days where extreme heat is widespread across the continent have become more common in the past twenty years,”....