After a month in which the record for the Earth’s hottest day was shattered more than once, then the record for the Earth’s hottest week melted away, is it any surprise that July 2023 turned out to be the world’s hottest month on record? News came through overnight from the Copernicus Climate Change Service […]
Tasmania and a few places on the Australian mainland just had their warmest July on record, while mid-winter rainfall was below average in much of southern Australia. The national mean temperature in July 2023 was 1.19ºC above the 1961-1990 average, making it the country’s 9th warmest July in records dating back to 1910. Image: […]
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology is digging its heels into the sand and defying the World Meteorological Organization by announcing today that El Niño is not currently underway. The World Meteorological Organization issued a statement on July 4 declaring that El Niño conditions had developed in the Pacific Ocean for the first time in seven years. […]
Ever walked outside on a beautiful, 20°C day, but the wind whipped up making it feel like Frosty the Snowman just gave you a hug? Or have you sat in the shade on a 25°C summer’s day and feel like you are cosplaying as Niagara Falls? The temperature isn’t lying, it’s just the ‘feels-like’ temperature is […]
Global climate records are being rewritten this month, with Earth just registering its warmest week in recorded history and Antarctic sea ice anomalies plunging to their lowest levels ever observed. Earth’s atmosphere is monitored constantly throughout the year by a global network of instruments that span land, sea, sky and space. This global observation network […]
The record for the world’s hottest day has been broken twice this week, according to new data published by the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. We are talking here about global average temperatures, NOT the hottest single official reading, which for the record was 56.7°C at Death Valley in the western USA in 1913. […]
The Bureau of Meteorology has refrained from declaring El Niño this week as the atmosphere stubbornly refuses to respond to lingering warm water in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Murmurs of a potential El Niño have been circulating since the start of this year, when forecast models began hinting at a swift transition from La Niña […]
If you know the difference between a Brickfielder, a Fremantle Doctor and a southerly buster, chances are you have a healthy interest in Australian weather. Either that, or you just really love the wind. Like many other parts of the world, the wind plays an important role in sustaining life across Australia. It distributes the […]
Large areas of Australia have just experienced one of their warmest starts to winter on record as global air and ocean temperatures surge to unprecedented levels for this time of year. The first fortnight of winter 2023 has featured some unseasonably warm temperatures in Australia. The maps below show how daily maximum temperatures have compared […]
Australia’s tropical cyclone season is officially underway, but we may not see much activity for few months yet. The season runs from November to April, and for mining operators and businesses across northern Australia, 2026-27 is shaping up to be a season where the headline numbers and the real risk may not line up. On […]
A positive Indian Ocean Dipole is underway, but this one is unlikely to deliver the textbook dry spring and summer that businesses have come to expect from the pattern. The Bureau of Meteorology officially declared a positive IOD on Tuesday, October 27, which typically like El Niño can cause drier and warmer conditions over parts of […]
Waters off Indonesia have cooled in recent weeks, an indication that a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event could be developing. It’s an important climate driver for Australia, and it could shape rainfall and temperatures heading into summer, with flow-on effects for farmers, energy and other industries. What is the Indian Ocean Dipole? The IOD […]
Leonora, WA, had its wettest September day on record earlier this month. Three weeks later, more than 1.3 million lightning pulses were detected within 800 km of the town in 48 hours. Why is a stalled trough delivering storms to mining country, and what it could mean for operations? The DTN Total Lightning Network detected […]
