Cyclone Sean, currently spinning off the coast of Western Australia, is being linked to the intense heatwave gripping Brisbane and other parts of Queensland. While not the sole cause, the cyclone's associated thunderstorms are pushing warm air downward, leading to increased temperatures hundreds of kilometers away.
Let’s talk about a cyclone named Sean .The heatwave gripping Brisbane has been attributed to the long-reaching effects of Cyclone Sean , which is currently spinning over water off Western Australia.But the cyclone is not entirely to blame, the Bureau of Meteorology says.“Tropical cyclones and the associated thunderstorms which accompany them cause a lot of air to rise high up in the atmosphere,” a bureau spokeswoman said.
When air sinks in the atmosphere, it warms up, meaning we often see increased temperatures in areas several hundred kilometres away.”Nowhere in Queensland is escaping the heatwave.Workers at the Carmichael coal mine near Clermont in central Queensland, where the temperature is expected to hit 38 degrees today and 41 degrees tomorrow, have resorted to taking ice baths to keep cool.In Blackall and Longreach, in central Queensland, it was 40 degrees by midday.
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