Wild weather, floods, monster cyclones and mosquito-borne viruses could be heading Australia’s way, the PM will be warned today.
and state premiers will be briefed on the risk of an intense La Nina weather pattern emerging at Friday’s national cabinet., one of the strongest to ever hit Australia bringing peak wind gusts estimated at 285 kilometres per hour.
During La Nina, there are not only more tropical cyclones, but more make it to landfall and the first cyclone to cross the Australian coast also tends to occur earlier in the season. “It typically also brings cooler and cloudier days, more tropical cyclones, and an earlier onset of the first rains of the wet season across the north,” the Bureau’s Manager of Climate Operations, Dr Andrew Watkins said.
Recent research has predicted the extreme La Nina weather pattern could occur every 13 years, rather than the 23 years previously seen.
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