Australia's climate extremes: Two 1,000-year floods, droughts and wildfires [1]

AlllVoices.com - 1/30/13, PrarieDogPress

Bushfires out of control in Tasmania, Australia.  AP

In Australia, 2013 is lining up to be a record-breaking year for simultaneous weather extremes involving historic heat waves, decades-long drought across parts of the Australian terrain, the sum of 100 or more wildfires and the second unprecedented flood in two years.

This week, according to CNN coverage [2], flood waters from torrential rain in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Oswald rapidly swamped areas near the east coast of Queensland with 2 ½ feet of rushing water, catching residents of communities like Bundaberg and Brisbane by surprise.

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