Anatomy of a Monster Storm

When wild weather hammered Australia’s east coast, researchers leapt into action, collecting the most detailed data ever — and creating powerful tools to predict future storms.

Wilson da Silva
ILLUMINATION
Published in
11 min readMar 21, 2021

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Stormy ocean waves strike the coast of Sydney, Australia [Gergo Rugli/Shutterstock]

MITCHELL HARLEY doesn’t believe in monsters. But on arriving in the office on a crisp Monday morning in May 2016, what he saw…

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