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Australia’s 2025 snow and hydropower seasonal forecast

The Australian snow season is expected to take off to a slow start in 2025, but conditions could become better into the second half of the season.  When is Australia’s snow season?  Australia’s snow season typically runs between the...

‘Mini tornado’ to be officially recognised on Fujita scale

This article was written for April Fools Day. It is not factual. A new category will be added to the Fujita scale from 2026 to formally recognise the ‘mini tornado’. The Fujita scale, and the revised Enhanced Fujita scale,...

Setting the pace in a rapidly changing world – Weatherzone, a DTN company, is supporting and celebrating meteorological advancement and achievements

Weatherzone and DTN both honour the accomplishments and prioritise the professional development of our dedicated team. In a world that continually accelerates with advancements across the science and tech space, our responsibility and passion is to stay at the...

Embracing Climate Resilience: Responding to the WMO’s Urgent Call

Globally, July 2023 was the hottest of any month on record, surpassing the 1850-1900 temperature average by 1.5 degrees celsius. The summer heat has gripped parts of Europe and North America, igniting devastating wildfires. Further to this, Antarctic Sea...

Dry, warm spring outlook for Australia

Australia is being warned to prepare for an unusually warm and dry spring, despite the Bureau of Meteorology continuing to hold back on declaring a fully-fledged El Niño. The Bureau released its latest climate driver update on Tuesday afternoon,...

Tropical Cyclone Ilsa expected to intensify rapidly

Tropical Cyclone Ilsa has officially been declared, and is expected to intensify rapidly in coming hours and days, Just after 2 pm AWST, the BoM issued official notice that the tropical low it had been watching with interest for...

Two ‘northwest cloudbands’ to soak Australia this week

Rain will fall over large areas of every Australian state and territory this week as two northwest cloudbands sweep across the country. Northwest cloudbands are large bands of cloud that spread across Australia from the northwest towards the southeast....

Storms barrel towards three capital cities

Severe storms have ripped through Melbourne and Canberra on Thursday morning, delivering brief but heavy downpours in many suburbs, with the strong chance of more to come in both cities, as well as Sydney. The storms in Canberra and...

How much has sea level risen due to climate change?

How much has sea level risen due to climate change? Today marks the autumnal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere, meaning nights will become longer than days in Australia for the next six months.  This year’s autumnal equinox occurred at 8:25am AEDT...

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From Kimberley to northern NSW: Bushfire outlook flags risk for resources sector this winter

Bushfire risk doesn’t usually make headlines in June, but AFAC’s winter seasonal outlook is putting mining and resources operators on alert from the Kimberley to the NSW.  Australia’s official seasonal bushfire outlook for winter 2026 was released by AFAC on Thursday, May 28. The outlook predicts increased fire risk across the northern parts of the Great Sandy Desert and surrounds […]

The signal was there weeks earlier: forecasting one of the year’s biggest wind events

In mid-May 2026, DTN APAC meteorologists flagged a strengthening Southern Ocean pattern in model guidance, signalling an extended run of record-challenging wind conditions across the NEM.  Nearly three weeks later, NEM wind generation climbed from around 1.5GW to more than 9GW, supplying roughly one-third of the grid and coming within 1GW of the all-time generation record.  The event highlighted […]

The 2026 Indian Southwest Monsoon onset is expected in the next two weeks

The Indian Southwest Monsoon will reach India in the next two weeks, but a developing El Niño could signal a drier than normal monsoon for businesses and major industries across the country. Southwest monsoon onset over southern India in the next two weeks The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) is responsible for tracking the advance and […]

Rapid El Niño signal accelerating risk for Australian businesses

El Niño–favourable conditions are gathering pace across the tropical Pacific, with key ocean indicators approaching threshold levels and early atmospheric responses emerging.  While uncertainty remains around final El Niño strength, historical analogues show that even weak events can generate widespread impacts, including reduced rainfall, warmer daytime temperatures, increased frost risk, elevated fire danger, reduced tropical cyclone activity, and more. Industries including […]