Spring is in full swing in Australia, with a warm and humid environment set to bring thunderstorms to several states and territories in the next week. A series of low pressure troughs and low pressure systems interacting with abundant atmospheric moisture will trigger daily showers and thunderstorms over Australia in the coming week. This persistent […]
A weeklong stretch of warm and uncomfortable nights is on the horizon for Brisbane, with temperatures soaring and heatwave conditions forecast for the city in the next few days. A broad low pressure trough stretching across Australia is allowing a pool of late-spring heat to lie over Qld for several days. The map below shows […]
After months of warmer than average temperatures, southwest WA is seeing a colder than average week. The mild beginning to the week in the southwest has been caused by cooler southwesterly winds behind a cold front which marched across the state on Monday. This comes after a warm October, with the average maximum temperature of 26.2°C, […]
October 2024 was Australia’s second-warmest October since comprehensive nationwide records were first kept in 1910. Temperatures across the country were 2.51°C above average in terms of what the BoM calls the “national area-averaged mean temperature” – a term which simply means the average of daily maximums and minimums at hundreds of different weather stations across […]
A hot air mass will cause temperatures to soar across large areas of Australia this week, making the northern half of Australia one of the hottest places in the world. November is always a hot time of year in Australia as increasing intensity of the sun enhances solar heating across the continent. This hot weather […]
Australia’s climate is changing, with shifts in temperature, rainfall, wind, extreme fire weather and tropical cyclone activity being observed across the continent, according to the new State of the Climate report published this week. The State of the Climate 2024 report was issued by the Bureau of meteorology and the CSIRO, which communicates the […]
Tasmania’s impressive renewable energy achievements are facing challenges as low rainfall significantly reduces hydropower. Hydro Tasmania is Australia’s largest generator of renewable energy, building 54 major dams, 30 hydropower stations and hybrid power stations. Their hydropower station was built more than a century ago, with construction continuing into the 1990s. The stations are in […]
A large pool of hot air will spread across Australia in the opening week of November, giving many parts of the country an early taste of summer. A stubborn ridge of high pressure to the south of Australia has been allowing hot air to build over the country’s northwest in the final days of October. […]
Thunderstorms will hit parts of Qld and NSW on Monday afternoon as a low pressure trough lingers over eastern Australia. Sunday night saw a flurry of thunderstorms develop along a 2000km corridor stretching from Qld’s northwest to southeast. These storms, which formed along the low pressure trough, produced more than 160,000 lightning strikes in the […]
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 […]
