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Wet, windy, wintry weather on the way for WA

A pair of cold fronts will cause two bouts of cold, wet and windy weather in WA over the coming week, with severe weather possible in the state’s west and southwest. The first in the pair of cold fronts...

677 mm in three days breaks Brisbane rainfall record

An extremely dangerous flooding situation has developed in southeast QLD and northeast NSW in response to several days of unrelenting rainfall, which included Brisbane’s wettest three days on record. A dynamic weather pattern involving a sustained stream of moisture-laden...

Tropical Cyclone Anika to redevelop near Broome

Heavy rain and damaging winds are spreading along the Kimberley coast as Ex-Tropical Cyclone Anika gets set to reintensify over the coming days. Tropical Cyclone Anika formed over the Timor Sea on Friday night before drifting south and making...

Tropical Cyclone Vernon forms, Anika looms

Tropical Cyclone Vernon has formed near the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Anika could soon follow, much closer to mainland Australia. The satellite image below shows several blobs of cloud to the northwest of Australia. These clouds show areas of...

Autumn bushfire outlook tells a strong La Nina tale

The autumn bushfire outlook has been released by the National Council for Fire and Emergency Services, and as you’d expect given the wet, La Niña-influenced summer in the east, and the scorching WA summer, the outlook is very different...

Darwin on tropical cyclone watch

A tropical cyclone watch has been issued for Darwin as a low-pressure system gains strength in the Timor Sea. The satellite image below shows clouds building over the Timor Sea on Thursday, associated with a developing Tropical Low. Image:...

Sydney’s wettest summer in 30 years

More than 120mm of rain during the last two days means Sydney is now having its wettest summer in 30 years. A persistent stream of moisture feeding into a slow-moving low-pressure trough caused 105.2mm of rain to fall in...

Major flooding in southeast QLD after 388 mm in nine hours

An overnight deluge has kicked off what is going to be a very wet four days in southeast Queensland and northeast NSW, with major flooding already occurring and likely to become more widespread in the coming days. A deep...

Heavy rain and storms in QLD, northeast NSW

Flooding could affect parts of Queensland and northern NSW on Thursday and Friday as more rain and thunderstorms soak already saturated river catchments. The first few days of February have seen widespread rain and storms spreading across eastern Australia....

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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 […]