What Is Happening With Climate Change?

How often has it happened in the past, I wonder, that a tropical cyclone has dared to venture so far South? Take a look at this :-

At the time, a Tropical Low entered the Coral Sea from the Gulf of Carpentaria and was predicted to become a second Tropical Cyclone – so very late in the season – albeit being further predicted to move away from the coast of Tropical Far North Queensland.

I accept that Tropical Cyclone Sandra was predicted  to remain a very safe distance away from the coast of New South Wales.  What I find very difficult to accept is that this sort of thing is normal and has happened at all before, let alone being a fact of history.

The question needs to be asked, therefore :- How many of these Tropical Cyclones have ventured south far enough to monster Lord Howe Island?  If there's a trend in history then fair enough, but I'm flat-out thinking of any such situation having existed in the whole period of my miserable yet lengthy span of life.

In the absence of a historical trend, would these occurrences – so late in the cyclone season – be evidence for climate change?