The Queensland and NSW region hit by this year’s record flooding faces rising risks from changes in tropical cyclone intensity and behaviour over future decades, research co-authored by IAG’s Natural Perils team shows.
Double the area of land in cyclone areas along the east coast could be impacted by Category 5 cyclones and triple the area of land will experience extreme rainfall before the end of the century, the research indicates.
“We know that tropical cyclones have the…