The number of extreme fire weather days in Australia has grown by 56 per cent over the past four decades, according to research by an international team of scientists including CSIRO. The research, published last week in the scientific journal Reviews of Geophysics, found that the number of extreme fire weather days each year and […]

Sea surface temperatures are currently warmer than average for much of the Australian coastline, a pattern increasing the chance of above average winter-spring rainfall for Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology says. The Bureau last week declared an end to the La Nina weather event that brought Australia’s costliest ever floods earlier this year, with most […]