Cyclones
Thanks to Australia’s warm sea-surface temperatures and unstable weather, it’s a place where it experiences plenty of extreme weather events. On average, between 10 and 13 tornadoes and hurricanes tend to hit Australia in each season. Don’t be surprised if you happen to go there and the weather starts getting really weird. To Australians, that’s totally normal and part of their yearly seasonal events.
Cyclones
The Gympie Gympie
In case you weren’t convinced just about everything in Australia is set out to hurt you, there’s the Gympie Gympie. It’s a plant that grows exclusively in the north of Australia. It’s the most virulent species of the urticaria plant. Other names this plant happens to have is ‘the stinging brush’, ‘the Gympie stinger’, and ‘the suicide plant’. Why does it have such gruesome nicknames you wonder? Well, one scientist described the sensation of being stung by the plant as ‘being electrocuted and burned by acid at the same time.’ Lovely.
The Gympie Gympie
