Determined not to let back-to-back disasters crush their celebration, Australia's wettest town is preparing for its 100th ...

The Cyclone Reinsurance Pool, a reinsurance arrangement between insurers and Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation (ARPC), ...

Australia ranks its tropical cyclones differently than how the U.S. measures hurricane intensity. For example, in Australia, the mean wind speed is defined over a period of 10 minutes, whereas the ...

Australia's busiest cyclone season wrapped up as April delivered everything from unseasonal heat to record rain. Signs now point to a warm, dry winter ahead. But the activity wasn't evenly spread.

Insured losses in Queensland have soared to $1.5bn from almost 130,000 claims after the Sunshine State was battered by two ...

Wind classifications in Australia are a system used to indicate the design wind speed that buildings must withstand based on their geographical location and site conditions. They are categorised into ...

Southeast Queensland was put on alert in March as Tropical Cyclone Alfred stalked the coast for days, causing significant ...

More than 2.7m Australian addresses have been identified by a major insurer as being at high risk of at least one extreme ...

The detection of energy signals from strong winter storms in the North Atlantic Ocean that travel through Earth's core could ...

A devastating cyclone helped Kenn Parker build his rainforest home, and now his favourite neighbours are the cassowaries who come to visit with their chicks.

Buildings damaged by the "relatively low wind speeds" of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred have revealed what aspects will need to be drastically improved so ...

Summer storms trigger massive insurance claims Across Australia Australian insurers have recorded nearly $1.5 billion in ...