Tag: La Nina

A year ago, Canberra suffered the worst hailstorm to hit an Australian city since 1999, inflicting $638 million worth of damage.

Despite above average rainfall throughout autumn and winter 2020, the severity of seven years of drought followed by catastrophic fires left scars on land and living creatures that will be permanent or slow to fade.

ACT emergency services are preparing for a “very different” bushfire season than the previous two. By early August, the ACT had received sufficient rainfall to remove the “residual drought” posing a forest fire...