A series of strong cold fronts have brought a dangerous mix of damaging to destructive winds, heavy rain, record flooding and huge snowfalls to Tas on the weekend. The severe weather caused widespread power outages across the state, with thousands of homes and businesses still without power on Monday, with no restoration time announced. […]
Total Fire Bans (TFBs) have been issued for Greater Sydney and the Illawarra in NSW, a month ahead of the typical start to the fire season. Gale force winds are once again blowing across eastern Australia ahead of a cold front; the third such system in the last seven days after damaging winds on both […]
Damaging winds to locally destructive winds have lashed Tas in the last four days, with more to come. Have the blusterous winds caused high wind power generation or have the wind farms turned the turbines off cutting capacity? A deep low pressure system has lingered well to the south of Tas, directing a series of […]
Damaging winds will continue to affect multiple states and territories across southern and southeastern Australia during the next five days. A large and slow-moving low pressure system passing between Australia and Antarctica will cause a vigorous stream of westerly winds across Australia’s southern states in the coming days. Image: Forecast wind speed and direction on […]
Brisbane is experiencing an unseasonably warm week, with the potential for winter maximum, minimum and prolonged warmth records to be broken. This unusually warm end to winter is being driven by unseasonably warm airmass lingering over central and northern Australia. This, in turn, is in response to a stubborn high-pressure system and prevailing warm and dry […]
Brisbane could see a record-breaking run of winter heat this week, with the mercury reaching at least 30°C for six days from Wednesday. The heat will peak on Saturday, with the mercury challenging 35°C in the afternoon. Temperatures will reach around 8 to 10°C above average across a large area of southern Qld, including Brisbane […]
One of the strongest cold fronts of 2024 will sweep across southeastern Australia during the next two days, causing damaging winds in parts of Tas, SA, Vic, NSW and WA. Some places are even likely to see destructive wind gusts from this powerful and dangerous weather system. A very steep pressure gradient is becoming established […]
It’s going to be a wild week in Tasmania, with the potential for 180km/h winds, more than 200mm of rain and snow in the west, thunderstorms, hail and freezing temperatures. Damaging winds have already begun across elevated areas on Monday, with Mount Wellington observing a mean wind speed of 100km/h and a gust of 129.6km/h at […]
Australia’s southeastern states experienced an early glimpse of spring-like thunderstorms on the weekend, with destructive winds, huge hail and more than a quarter of a million lightning strikes. The interaction between two contrasting cold and warm air masses created the perfect environment for prolific thunderstorm activity over southeastern Australia on the weekend. While this type […]
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 […]
