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Thursday, November 26, 2009
The Severe Weather Season in Australia
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The period from November to April each year is often a time of considerable atmospheric turmoil across Australia. Heatwaves, bushfires, trop...
Friday, October 30, 2009
Weather and the Melbourne Cup
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An iconic moment in Australian sporting history - Phar Lap wins the 1930 Melbourne Cup. Judging by the dress of the crowd and their shadows...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tsunami Disaster in Japan
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On the afternoon of March 11th 2011 a massive tsunami was generated by an estimated 8.9 intensity earthquake that occurred out to sea about ...
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Duststorms in Australia
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Between Monday 21st and Saturday 26th September 2009 two very large dust storms swept across eastern Australia and affected three major citi...
Friday, September 11, 2009
Thunderstruck! - The Lee Trevino Story
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In 1975, Lee Trevino was at the height of his stellar professional golfing career. Born in 1939 into a poor family of Mexican origins, he ha...
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Predicting the Weather - How far Ahead Can We Go?
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Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. King Lear – William Shakespeare Computer models have been of tremendous assi...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Measuring Past Climates
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Climate is a collection of all the long-term averages of the daily weather variables, such as rainfall, wind speed and direction, humidity, ...
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