Climate models predict that by 2050, Australia’s cool-season rainfall (the reliable southern winter rain) will drop by up to 30%, while extreme summer rainfall (the dangerous kind) will intensify. The result? A country where seasons no longer signify planting or resting, but merely the shifting of one hazard to the next.
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