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Forecasting these “rapid intensification” events is a challenge, in part because we do not fully understand the science behind rapid intensification.'

Photo of the 2015 explosion of Calbuco Volcano in Chile, by Keraunos ob, posted on the Earth of Fire blog by Bernard Duyck.   By Jo Nova A year ago I wrote about the odd link between the Hunga Tonga volcanic dust and...

Extreme weather events mean once reliable sources of power can fail

Met Office due to publish long-term forecast that will give steer on likely energy use in coming months

Scott Manley has done an excellent summary video of the Tongan volcano, much of the science and history of it as well as the effects thousands of miles away...

Sorry, the suggestion that passing policy based on 50-year climate science forecasts is somehow supported by the success of weather forecast models is mis-guided at best.

Here’s one for all the history-deniers from 1885 Mr N Bartley understood Australias climate 134 years ago better than some climate scientists appear to now.

For generations it was a Guinness Book of Records type thing. Now it’s gone. In 1924 Marble Bar set a world record of the most consecutive days of 100 °F (37.8 °C) or above, during an incredible period of 160 days...

There is a strong phenomenon called the Madden-Julian Oscilation (MJO) happening over the Indian ocean North west of Australia.The MJO is a massive convective pattern that churns it’s way from west to east across the...

Tuesday was Australia’s hottest day on record sayth the Bureau of Meteorology. And perhaps it was. But look at the temperatures reported in newspapers across the country during the month of January in 1896 when people...

Winning! The 1896 heatwave story is going viral and the  ABC is reduced to weak, late excuses Australians are realizing that our hot history has been hidden from us...

What a bombshell. The original data at 60 of the oldest sites across Australia shows there are no more Very Hot Days now than there were early last century. That’s no trend in 40 degree days for 100 years.

The Bureau of Meteorology did what to February? Wow, just wow. Look what the Bureau of Meteorology has covertly done to February? Something like one third of a degree has been added to the average Australian summer maximum...

I visited the famous Giles weather station a couple of weeks ago. It’s an ACORN top ranking site, it even has a Met office. Because it so central and so remote the measurements here are used to estimate temperatures...

I visited the famous Giles weather station a couple of weeks ago. It’s an ACORN top ranking site, it even has a Met office. Because it so central and so remote the measurements here are used to estimate temperatures...