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| Climate change brings floods to the Hunter region. |
Flooding in
the New South Wales Hunter region has led to evacuations, rescues and
hundreds of calls for help as the region experiences its wettest January day on
record.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said the immediate threat of
severe weather had passed, with conditions easing around the state.
But forecasters warned that more rain was still forecast for
the Hunter region and floodwaters remained a major risk.
Read the ABC story
- “NSW floods: Record rain brings chaos to Hunter amid search for missing sailor.”
(A warmer planet
means we have a warmer atmosphere and subsequently that same atmosphere absorbs
and holds more moisture that will ultimately fall as rain, which because of our
changing climate can sometimes be in unexpected or unlikely places, and
frequently it is a concentrated downpour of record proportions that brings on
unexpected flooding and if not claiming lives, causes damage amounting to huge
and equally unexpected amounts. The disruption and cost to those affected
communities is massive. What happened in the Hunter Region in the last few days
is an example – Robert McLean).
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