Huge waves in the atmosphere dump extreme rain on northern Australia
- Written by Fadhlil Rizki Muhammad, Graduate Researcher, The University of Melbourne
Bureau of Meteorology via AAPIn 2023, almost a year’s worth of rain fell over ten days in parts of northwestern Australia, leading to catastrophic flooding in the town of Fitzroy Crossing and surrounds. The rainfall was linked to a tropical cyclone, but there were also lesser-known forces at work: huge, planet-scale oscillations called...





