Weather hazards: bushfires, cyclones, Droughts and floods
Click on the liks on this page to find out what happens when the weather gets extreme.

• Bushfires
• Cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons
• Droughts
• Floods

• ACT Coroner's report
• House Select Committee on the recent Australian bushfires

• Brief weather details

• Country Fire Authority (CFA)
• CFA bushfire survival guide and fire restrictions
• DSE - practical advice
• Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board

• Department of Human Services - emergency management

• Encarta - fire
• Encyclopaedia Britannica - forest fire
• HowStuffWorks - wildfires

• Bushfires and fire safety in Australia
• Fire

• Age hot spots map
• CFA news
• DSE fires today
• Herald Sun - bushfire season
• NASA global fire images and information
• Sentinel Hotspots
• Age bushfires

Bureau of Meteorology - Australian climate extremes: fire and Bushfire weather
These Australian sites look at the relationship between weather and fire, and at some of the major Bushfires in Australia's history.

Bushfire CRC
The Bushire Cooperative Research Centre reasearches fire in the Australian environment and its site has research reports and best practice guidance on surviving bushires.

• Yahoo! - bushfires
• Hot Topics - bushfires

• Bureau of Meteorology - Cyclone Tracy
• NT Library - Cyclone Tracy

• Encyclopaedia Britannica - cyclones and hurricanes
• HowStuffWorks - hurricanes
• Infoplease - major storms

• Cyclone Tracy
• cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons

Bureau of Meterology - Cyclones
This fact sheet looks at tropical cyclones in Australia, what they are, how they are named and their impact.

Hurricanes - Online meteorological guide
This site details in depth what hurricanes and cyclones are, their study and their impact.

• Open Directory - hurricanes
• Yahoo! - hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones

• Department of Emergency Services - emergency management

• Encarta - drought
• Encyclopaedia Britannica - droughts and El Nino

• Drought

Bureau of Meteorology - Living with Drought
This Australian site explains what drought is, looks at its history in Australia and what we can do to learn to live with it. Also access an archive of drought statements.

Melbourne Water - Melbourne's current water status
From this site you can access information on Melbourne's water catchments and storage, plus the current water restrictions and living with drought.

Our water, our future
Discover what the Victorian Government is doing about water conservation and about what you can do to help.

Savewater.com
An Australian site with practical advice on ways of reducing water use.

• Department of Human Services - emergency management

• Encarta - Flood control
• Encyclopeadia Britannica - floods
• HowStuffWorks - floods
• InfoPlease - flood

• Floods

• Victorian Flood warning centre

Bureau of Meteorology - Flood
This Australian site explains the causes of flooding and major Floods in Australia.

NOVA Online - Flood!
This is the Web site of the TV documentary series on floods, which looks at Floods around the world.

• Yahoo! - floods