by kapow | Mar 15, 2017 | Blog, Storms
Clustering of Storms I read with interest the results of recent work by Ivan Haigh et al. on extreme sea level and storm surge events around the coast of the UK (Scientific Data, 2016, DOI:10.1038/sdata.2016.107). Robert Nichols from University of Southampton, in...
by kapow | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog, Storms
COASTAL STORMS NSW Premier Mike Baird MP inspects the damage (pc: Tom Fitzgerald) Once again the east coast has experienced the impacts of an east coast low which swept down from south east Queensland last weekend along the NSW coast and then generated extensive...
by kapow | May 4, 2015 | Blog, Storms
EAST COAST LOWS Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast after 1967 Way back in the early 70s I started to take an interest in East Coast Lows (ECLs). My curiosity was heightened by reading about the impact of the 1967 impact of a cluster of storms, both tropical cyclones and...