Storms and erosion

Over recent weeks there's been severe weather in eastern Australia. My area has been fortunate to have been spared the ongoing record floods affecting places further up the coast, but an unusual weather pattern did bring gale force winds which have resulted in major beach erosion. In one area the breaking waves crossed the beachfront (see PiP1), passed under the trees, across the road behind and almost to the houses in the background. The following day I took the image (in PiP 2) of the reducing but still significant waves. At Andy's request, the PiPs are now viewable as separate images.

This seems very appropriate with the release in the past few days of the 3rd part of the report of the expert Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC report stresses the need for urgent action to limit emissions and minimise the effects of climate change which include extreme weather.