When’s the next big one? NASA/NOAA
鈥淚t was blowing a perfect hurricane, the squalls coming down in regular gusts鈥 the sea at this time running mountains high, and very broken.鈥
That was one of the written in the logbook of a ship called the Catherine Hill, before a giant storm drove it aground north of Sydney, Australia, on 21 June 1867. That storm and others like it are now being studied to help weather forecasters predict future recurrences.
Australia鈥檚 eastern seaboard is lashed by monster storms called 鈥渆xtreme east coast lows鈥 about once every 10 to…
