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The poor old North Coast of NSW is today battening down hatches and filling up sandbags again.
After a rough decade of extreme weather events, the north of NSW is preparing for another one.
While not yet technically being called a ‘One in a XX/X amount of years event, the BOM has warned residents all along the coast and coastal inland to brace for a ‘cyclone bomb.’
The low-pressure system reportedly gained traction — in a process known as “bombogenesis” — off the east coast overnight and is expected to bring damaging, destructive winds and heavy rainfall to the region.
Residents of the frequently weather effected region, as well as the broader nation are praying that the event doesn’t lead to the destruction of the last few years.
It is however leading experts to re-categorise how they describe these events.
“Yeah we’ve always used words like bombogenesis and stuff, but we are going to have to reclassify the terms around how we describe the severity,” said one of Betoota’s resident Meteorologists.
Speaking to us from the Remienko Airport where he was checking the rain gauge, he explained that the frequency of cyclones, floods, and fires has finally drawn a line in the sand.
“Mate, this is the poor old North coast’s like 5th one in a something year event in the last decade,” he explained.
“And we all know about the severity of bushfires that have been ravaging the country.”
“Maybe it has something to do with human kind’s influence on the climate, that is not only raising global temperatures, but creating more severe and frequent weather events.”
“Which some people *cough cough* have been banging on about for decades, but the nation’s media and political class have been beholden to major corporations who often pay very little tax, and destroyed the debate around the issue by pretending the science is out on this stuff.”
“Might be time to maybe take things a little bit more seriously.”
“Or actual taxpayers are going to have to keep footing the bill from these weather events.”
More to come.
