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Editor's note
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Rain and hot weather records are likely to be broken around Australia this weekend, in another summer of heatwaves and downpours.
Wondering how best to keep your house cool, or what to do so you can exercise safely in the heat? Or just curious about what might be causing Perth’s record rain, or Brisbane’s non-stop heat? We’ve gathered together the best from The Conversation archives on heat and rain and what to do about it.
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Charis Palmer
Deputy Editor
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Environment + Energy
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If overnight temperatures are due to fall below your inside temperature, open the house as much as possible from late afternoon.
Image from shutterstock.com
Wendy Miller, Queensland University of Technology
Should you open or close your house to keep cool in a heatwave? Many people believe it makes sense to throw open doors and windows to the breeze; others try to shut out the heat. Listen to talk radio during…
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Things got very wet, very quickly, in Brisbane in 2011.
AAP Image/Dave Hunt
James Cleverly, University of Technology Sydney; Derek Eamus, University of Technology Sydney
Since 1999, Australia has swung between drought and deluge with surprising speed, because El Niño has fallen into sync with similar patterns in the Indian and Southern Oceans.
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Hard surfaces increase the risk of urban flooding.
Chesapeake Bay Program/Flickr
Alessandro Ossola, University of Melbourne; Matthew Burns, University of Melbourne
A proliferation of concrete is increasing the risk of urban flooding. The solution? More gardens.
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Health
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If you’re not regularly active, extreme exercise and exercise in extreme heat is unwise.
lzf/Shutterstock
Howard Carter, University of Western Australia; Daniel Green
Exercise alone can be hard, but exercising in the heat is a whole lot harder. Put simply, this is due to the balance between how much heat the body generates and how much it is capable of losing.
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Cities
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Cities are facing more heatwaves, but not all strategies to keep us cool are equal.
Sydney image from www.shuttrstock.com
Mathew Lipson, UNSW; Melissa Hart, UNSW
Our cities are getting hotter. Luckily, as a built environment, we can actually do something about it.
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Science + Technology
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Golden Bay in New Zealand after damaging flooding in December 2011.
Gerry Draper, via NIWA
Liz Minchin, The Conversation; Katherine Smyrk, The Conversation
Australians and New Zealanders can now use their computers to help scientists discover if climate change has contributed…
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FactCheck
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Was the prime minister right about storms and global warming?
AAP/Lukas Coch
Kevin Walsh, University of Melbourne
Was Malcolm Turnbull right to say that larger and more frequent storms are one of the predicted consequences of climate change – but that you can't attribute any particular storm to global warming?
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Business + Economy
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Heat is costing the Australian economy through productivity losses.
Heat stress image from www.shutterstrock.com
Kerstin Zander, Charles Darwin University; Elspeth Oppermann, Charles Darwin University; Stephen Garnett, Charles Darwin University
Heat cost Australia nearly A$7 billion in 2014, which is bad news given climate forecasts of hotter and more frequent heatwaves.
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