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you haven't bought land in a dubious  area  , i guess

 i don't need to go far to find a major shopping area  built in a flood plain ( and i do NOT mean those 'one in one hundred year ' zones )

 the same with 'record temperatures ' and ' record rainfalls ' or even cyclones  coming down to Southern QLD ( and Northern NSW )

 now if you don't build to cyclone-resistant standards when you should ( despite official regulations )

 and  actually QLD has a very expensive super computer that does all that modelling ( as do several nations )  now of course these computers might not  be used for the purposes they are claimed to  be designed for

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from 2010

Rank	System	Cores	Rmax (TFlop/s)	Rpeak (TFlop/s)	Power (kW)
51	Vayu - Sun Blade x6048, Xeon X5570 2.93 Ghz, Infiniband QDR, Oracle National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia) Australia	11,936	126.4	139.9
88	HP Pod BL2x220, X5660 2.8 Ghz, Infiniband QDR, HPE iVEC Australia	9,600	87.2	107.5
146	CSIRO GPU Cluster - Supermicro Xeon Cluster, E5462 2.8 Ghz, Nvidia Tesla s2050 GPU, Infiniband, Xenon Systems Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Australia	4,608	52.5	143.3	94
163	SOLAR - Sun Blade x6048, Xeon X5570 2.93 Ghz, Infiniband QDR, Oracle Bureau of Meteorology / CSIRO HPCCC Australia	4,600	49.6	53.9	220

now you can bet these have been upgraded but slid  down the lists  and some would have been replaced by cloud access .. but how were our weather forecasts  in 2010  ( considering QLD had it's own lesser ranked computer  to assist  No 163 )