Wel
Laure
Poncet
Editor
Contents
4 President ' s report 6 CAPE-k Summer School Highlights
8 Fires, floods and marine heatwave: Australia ' s summer of extremes
12 Giles Weather Station: Inside my life as a weather observer in remote Australia
14 An ocean forest in danger
16 JSHESS: an increasingly popular journal with growing impact
17 Seasonal snaps
18 Our kids have questions about climate change. We are giving them answers
20 Bluebird ' s land speed record at Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, July 17, 1964
22 New book: Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre ' s legacy
24 Charts of the Past 25 Calendar & JSHESS contents
ISSN 1035‐6576 Editor: Laure Poncet Editor‐in‐Chief: Damien Irving Assistant Editors: Linden Ashcroft and Blair Trewin Design: Laure Poncet Publisher: AMOS
Contact and submit pieces: bamos @ amos. org. au. Submission guidelines are available online and at the end of this issue.
Image: Clouds at Bondi Beach. Credit: Laure Poncet Cover image: Storm and lightning over Sydney on 15 January 2025. Credit: Philipp Glanz
Other images in this publication: Photographs without a specified source are obtained via the‘ pexels’ website and hyperlinked to the original image online.
Welcome to the autumn issue of BAMOS for 2025!
I hope you all had a good start to the year and enjoyed a great summer!
While some of us may have made the most of the sunny weather, it ' s worth noting that Australia ' s summer was unusually hot— the second hottest on record— and that climate extremes hit the country on multiple fronts.
After witnessing the success of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extreme ' s State of Weather and Climate Extremes Report 2023, which summarised weather and climate events across Australia for that year, I was inspired to do something similar for our summer extremes and was fortunate to find experts from our community who were willing to contribute to this effort. A big thanks to Corey Robinson, Yuxin Wang, Neil Holbrook, Andrew Dowdy, Todd Lane and Luke Burgess for putting together a detailed summary of some of this summer ' s extreme events( with plenty of colorful charts)!
Tropical Cyclone Alfred arrived too late to be included in this summer analysis, but you can still find a stunning picture of surfer Damian Coulter riding the huge waves it generated as it approached the Queensland coast. A big thanks to Amber J. Cowley for allowing us to feature her picture, which has been widely circulated in the media.
This issue also includes personal stories from our community, and we will try to feature more in the future! Please feel free to email me with ideas for upcoming BAMOS issues.
Now that autumn is here, I ' m reminded of how much I love this season in Australia. The beaches are starting to empty, the water is still warm, and the air temperature is quite pleasant. And while winter is not too far away, I know it won ' t be as harsh as my endless( yet wonderful) Swiss winters.
Winter will bring the AMOS conference to Cairns, and I hope to see many of you there. While email trails are fine, I ' d love to finally put faces to the names of the people I ' ve been working with on articles.
In the meantime, enjoy this issue and the wonderful autumn days!