Extreme weather- country of our choice

In this week of Online Geology class, we are allowed to explore any country in the world's extreme weather. The country I Chose to explore is Australia. To explore the country, we first need to discuss what is extreme weather. Extreme weather is when a weather event is significantly different from the average or usual weather pattern. This may take place over one day or a period of time.Examples of extreme weather are: Drought - caused by a lack of rain, flash floods - caused by too much rain in a short period of time, strong winds and storms, an extreme cold spell, and extreme heat wave. A factor causing extreme weather is human created climate change of global warming.Changes in extreme weather and climate events, such as heat waves and droughts, are the primary way that most people experience climate change. Human-induced climate change has already increased the number and strength of some of these extreme events. Australia has had all manner of extreme weather events in 2017. Severe heat at both the start and end of the year. Both Sydney and Brisbane experienced their hottest summers on record, while parts of inland New South Wales and Queensland endured extended periods of very high temperatures.An interesting result i found from extreme weather and extreme heat in Australia: 99% of baby green sea turtles, a species whose sex is determined by temperature, were found to be female. Another result of extreme heat is warming up the climate system is also being felt in several ways. The bushfires season starts earlier than it used to, and Australia has already experienced wild blazes this season. Australia's winter in 2017 - which runs from June to August - was the hottest ever recorded with the Bureau of Meteorology attributing it to a "long-term warming trend" mostly caused by climate change.Also, Rainfall is down for both the south-east and south-west of the country in the cooler months months between April and October. which are also their agriculture months, so food quantity has also been a factor hit by the extreme weather from climate change. Whether has been so bad that Australia had to warn people to stay indoors as a dangerous heatwaves hit, with temperatures so high that the asphalt on some roads has been melting.
As the understanding of links between climate change and its impacts becomes stronger, the pressure from civil society on governments and institutions to act is needed, as the only way we can survive extreme weather is to change .
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citations:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/weather_climate/extreme_weather_rev1.shtml
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/05/record-breaking-extreme-weather-in-australia-in-2016-devastates-ecosystems