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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Peter Hannam

La Niña set to intensify Australia’s cyclone season, raising risk of flooding

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Australia’s north and east could be in for more flooding, with the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting a higher-than-average tropical cyclone season. Photograph: Louise Myers/AAP

The coming tropical cyclone season threatens to inflict more flooding on northern and eastern Australia, elevating demands on emergency authorities to “another level”, a senior Bureau of Meteorology climatologist has said.

Greg Browning, a specialist who helps prepare the bureau’s cyclone forecast, said disaster management crews had warned since August to prepare for more wild weather wreaked by cyclones.

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