ImpactsNicholas Turland/Flickr Giant hail from the Queensland tropics gives rare insight into severe weather events Recording-breaking hail has been analysed in a bid to develop better models and forecasting for severe storms.
Impacts www.abc.net.au Indian Ocean Dipole linked to global warming in new research by Australian scientists After a summer of hell, is the Indian Ocean Dipole the smoking gun connecting drought and climate change?
Newsletterplay icon www.abc.net.au Australia's heatwave registers new hottest day on record, BOM says The average maximum temperature across the country on Tuesday was 40.9C, breaking the mark of 40.3C set in January 2013.
Impacts www.abc.net.au The causes of unprecedented bushfires are complex but climate change is part of the puzzle Fires are now exceeding all known firefighting technologies but what can be done to stop them?