Melbourne and Adelaide have been Australia's most vulnerable major cities to killer heatwaves
- Written by Thomas Longden, Senior Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
Melbourne and Adelaide have been most prone to deadly heatwave conditions among Australia’s five largest cities, according to my new research published in Climatic Change.
My study shows that between 2001 and 2015, Melbourne and Adelaide suffered the most exposure to temperatures beyond a crucial threshold of 7.26℃ above the average....