How the weather affects us personally and in our day-to-day living;An explanation of Australia’s climate —rainfall, temperature, drought, flood, El Niño, the Southern Oscillation Index and weather extremes;Climatic change and the effect of human activity on climate including the greenhouse effect and ozone depletion;How and why the atmosphere works — details of wind circulations including the southerly buster and Spillane Eddy;Clouds — how they form and the different types;Instruments used to measure weather phenomena — from barometers and thermometers to radar and Automatic Weather Station; Environmental disasters —Cyclone Tracy, the Ash Wednesday and Black Saturday bushfires, the Brisbane floods of 1974 and the Toowoomba floods of 2011.
