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Hotter, colder, wetter: It’s a new world of extremes
Posted by WA Today: Gary Tippet and Mark Russel on January 16th, 2011
WA Today: IN A land of droughts and flooding rains, it's often hard to remember when you're being scorched by one or submerged by the other. But lately Australia seems to be oscillating between increasingly regular and ruinous extreme weather events - and sometimes suffering the opposite ends of the extremes at the same time.
So one side of the continent is inundated by the worst floods in memory, while its south-west corner is hit by bushfires. Is this the future? Are these a sign of things to come with...