Australia

  To begin to get you to know what coastal problems are in Australia, it is coastal erosion. What is Coastal Erosion? It is when the ocean takes away things, for example, the waves hit the shore and take away a certain amount of sand or a rock, making the beach smaller or emptier. It is usually driven by waves and currents; however, coastal erosion is often associated with bad weather. Many beaches in Australia are vulnerable to coastal erosion. There is an event called " La Niña". They call it this because it is the weather pattern that affects Australia. This typically happens in the spring and summer months. They had done a study of four decades with satellite imagery.   Dr Javier Leon is a lecturer in physical geography at the University of the Sunshine Coast. HE has estimated that in the past 3 years, the shoreline has retreated by 20 meters and sand dunes receded between 7cm and 10cm. Australia is developing and understanding Coastal erosion. They developed methods ...

 Many extreme weather events are going on in Australia. Queensland is in the middle of a severe flood, there is a tropical cyclone going on in the Western part of Australia, and a lot of bush wildfires going on that were caused by storms and the hot and windy weather. However, we will be talking about the heat waves they have experienced.  In 2022 the Western part of Australia has gone through many heat waves. A town called Onslow In January they experienced a temperature of 50.7C and the conversion to Fahrenheit it will be 123 degrees Fahrenheit; another town called Perth had six days of 40 C temperature. The average temperature in Australia is 20-37 C. In 2015-2016 summer Perth had a record of 7 summer days that exceeded 40C. However, in 2021-2022 the city Perth surpassed that. Due to the major heat waves they experience they also experience the Winds and dry weather from the desert. Heatwaves are one of the major natural hazards that they experience in Australia. The reason...