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'Bomb cyclone' pummels Sydney with heavy rains, winds

SYDNEY (Reuters) -A "bomb cyclone" has lashed Australia's most populous state with heavy rain and strong winds, forcing airlines to cancel domestic flights and prompting evacuation warnings in coastal ...

Could a tropical cyclone hit Sydney? What climate change science does — and doesn't — say about future storms

Tropical Cyclone Alfred was no normal cyclone. Firstly, it moved the wrong way. Most cyclones that form in the Coral Sea move ...
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Will Cyclone Alfred impact Sydney?

Heavy rainfall from Cyclone Alfred - the first to hit southeast Queensland and northern NSW in half a century - will reach as far as Sydney and last for days. With a warning zone stretching 650km, the ...
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How are scientists tracking Cyclone Alfred?

Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava has received funding in the past from the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research, various local councils and several cooperative research centres. He is a member of ...
The Conversation

Cyclone Alfred is slowing – and that could make it more destructive. Here’s how climate change might have influenced it

Liz Ritchie-Tyo receives funding from The Australian Research Council and the U.S. Office of Naval Research Andrew Dowdy receives funding from University of Melbourne as well as supported through the ...

Western Australia faces bushfire threat as cold, wet and bumpy Sydney to Hobart yacht race forecast

WA facing several fire warnings as Perth temperatures exceed 40C while Melbourne on track for coldest Christmas since 2006 ...
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Rare cyclone threatens millions on Australia’s east coast

Millions of residents along Australia’s eastern coast are bracing for the arrival of a very slow-moving storm, the strongest tropical cyclone to threaten the region in more than 50 years. Tropical ...
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Alfred raises flood risk as tropical storm whips Australian coast with wind and rain

A slow-moving tropical storm has crossed Australia’s heavily populated eastern coast, lashing the region with damaging winds and heavy rain that’s forecast to fall for days to come. Cyclone Alfred, ...