You may have heard the ‘moon wobble’ will intensify coastal floods. Well, here’s what that means for Australia Shutterstock Mark Gibbs , Australian Institute of Marine Science Extreme floods this month have been crippling cities worldwide. This week in China’s Henan province , a year’s worth of rain fell in just three days. Last week, catastrophic floods swept across western Germany and parts of Belgium. And at home, rain fell in Perth for 17 days straight, making it the city’s wettest July in 20 years. But torrential rain isn’t the only cause of floods. Many coastal towns and cities in Australia would already be familiar with what are known as “nuisance” floods, which occur during some high tides. A recent study from NASA and the University of Hawaii suggests even nuisance floods are set to get worse in the mid-2030s as the moon’s orbit begins another phase, combined with rising sea levels from climate change. The study ...
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