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Cyclones get names but deadly heatwaves don’t. Should Australia personalise severe weather?

By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia

We name severe cyclones and storms, but not heatwaves or floods. Why? Are there benefits to giving Australia’s climate-fuelled extreme weather a name?

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