News Headline
Bushfires, ash rain, dust storms and flash floods: two weeks in apocalyptic Australia
Source
Guardian (International Edition)
Publication Date
2020-01-24
In Australia this summer, talking about the weather inevitably leads to talking about the apocalypse.“When’s the plague of locusts going to arrive?” jokes one Sydney resident after hearing reports that her city is to receive another storm of giant hailstones on Friday afternoon, just a day after it sweltered in temperatures of 40C and toxic smoke kept people stuck indoors, away from the respite of the beach.