This new edition of The Australian Weather Book features: how the weather affects us personally and in our day-to-day living; an explanation of Australia's climate, including rainfall, temperature, drought, flood, the Southern Oscillation Index and weather extremes; climatic change and the effect of human activity on climate; and instruments used to measure weather phenomena.

Updated to include recent Australian natural disasters - from Cyclone Tracy, to the Brisbane floods of 1974 and the Queensland floods of 2011.