In a study, published in Climatic Change, Dr. Longden used data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics
and the Bureau of Meteorology to track daily temperature and mortality between 2001 and 2015.
While the residents of Australia's northern east-coast capitals may curse their sweaty summers,
UTS researcher Dr. Thomas Longden has found that people in these cities were
less likely to be caught out by an abrupt and extremely hot heatwave.