Tom Saunders
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Tyne Logan |Tom Saunders
Considering we're not in El Niño, it might be surprising to hear one of the worst droughts on record is crippling multiple states. Adelaide has only received around 300mm of rain since February last year — the city's driest 15-month spell since records began in 1839. Similar shortfalls are extending across the whole of agricultural SA, while severe drought is also impacting most of the western parts of Victoria and Tasmania.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Tom Saunders |Tyne Logan
A week before Tropical Cyclone Alfred was nearing the east coast of Australia, most forecasts were favouring a path either well offshore or near the central Queensland coast. There was a curious anomaly though: an AI prediction from Google's DeepMind, called Graphcast, was predicting the centre of Alfred would be just 200 kilometres off the coast of Brisbane.
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2 months ago |
abc.net.au | Tom Saunders |Tyne Logan
Australia's east coast has been pounded by rain, wind and surf for a week, with some of the highest rainfall in decades recorded through southern Queensland, including Brisbane's highest daily rainfall in half a century. Alfred made landfall as ex-Tropical Cyclone at about 8pm on Saturday. It is now pushing inland through southern Queensland, having transformed from a closed low-pressure system with tightly rotating winds into a low-pressure trough.
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Jan 10, 2025 |
abc.net.au | Tom Saunders
Australia is now in the peak of the severe weather season, and this weekend will offer up an assortment of atmospheric extremes from torrential rain and powerful afternoon thunderstorms to a sprawling heatwave. The heaviest rain this weekend should fall across eastern Queensland and north-east New South Wales, where isolated totals could exceed 100 millimetres.
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Jan 7, 2025 |
rnz.co.nz | Tom Saunders
By Tom Saunders, ABCThe great rainmaker, La Niña, could be back for the fourth time in five years, increasing the prospect of a soaking start to 2025 across most of Australia. La Niña refers to a cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean and the subsequent shift in global weather patterns, including a strengthening of moist easterly winds blowing towards Australia, and a subsequent increase in cloud development and rain over the longitudes.
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