Merry Christmas from the JBP team, and a reminder for us Australians living through 40 degree days and a continuing drought, that we are actually in storm season. Pulling together data from the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) Severe Storms Archive, we see that even in this hot weather we are moving into the peak cyclone months between December to March. This 'storm season' trend is quite similar to other states but for different weather events - typically convective thunderstorm

November 2019 marked the third birthday of our Australian office, and the fifth year of the JBA Group working throughout the Asia-Pacific region. This years' projects have spanned India, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines; working on cyclones and typhoons, monsoons, storm surges and coastal erosion projects. In Australia we have completed a national cyclone alert tool, three Council-focused extreme weather forecasting systems, mapped flooding through two entire Council r