Weather: Australia’s north set for Christmas drenching, Sydney swelters through hottest night in two years

Sydney just sweltered through its hottest night in two years, while monsoonal moisture is set to drench the north of the country over Christmas and into the new year.
Yahoo

'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 ...
The Conversation

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 ...
CNN

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 ...