Fire season ‘under way’ in Queensland, BoM warns The Queensland Bureau of Meteorology said fire season is getting under way with warm, dry weather forecast across the state this week. Brisbane hit 29.1 C yesterday, marking its warmest August day since 2018, the BoM said. Maximum temperatures will be several […]
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Australia should brace for flooding this storm season with the bureau of meteorology (Bom) predicting there is double the chance of a La Niña forming. La Niña events increase the chances of above-average rainfall for northern and eastern Australia during spring and summer. Bom climatologist Tamika Tihema says the bureau […]
Communities in Western Australia’s mid-west have been urged to evacuate before the arrival of Tropical Cyclone Seroja, which is set to bring gales, heavy rain and storm tides as it reaches land. Seroja is forecast to make landfall on Sunday afternoon as a category two cyclone, packing destructive winds with […]
Seroja is expected to bring widespread impacts across the region Sunday evening local time and overnight as it progresses southeastward over land. Tropical cyclones impact the northern coast of Australia every year. However, the central coast and south-central coast of Western Australia do not see tropical cyclones as frequently, especially […]
A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on board a Soyuz MS-18 rocket. The trio, who are part of the latest crew heading to the orbiting lab, launched from Earth at 08:42 BST from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA’s Mark […]
Blink and you’ll miss it! Astrophotographer captures perfectly-timed shot of the International Space Station as it passes across the sun Image was taken last week by an astrophotographer in Germany when the ISS passed overhead The photograph was three weeks in the planning and was successfully taken by Mehmet Ergun He […]
Multiple disasters caused by torrential rains in eastern Indonesia have killed at least 70 people and displaced thousands, the country’s disaster relief agency has said. Mud tumbled down from surrounding hills onto dozens of homes in Lamenele village shortly after midnight on Sunday on Adonara island in East Nusa Tenggara […]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Hundreds of people have been rescued from floodwaters that have isolated dozens of towns in Australia’s most populous state New South Wales and forced thousands to evacuate their homes as record rain continues to inundate the country’s east coast. Around 18,000 people had been evacuated from […]