The recent spring-like weather in Australia’s southeastern states is set to end abruptly, as a band of fierce winds, rain and severe thunderstorms spread across the region in the coming days. The satellite image below shows a low pressure system and associated front to the south of WA approaching SA rapidly from the west on Wednesday […]
Unseasonably high 24-hour rainfall totals have again been recorded to 9 am Wednesday across large parts of southern Queensland and northern NSW, with the heaviest falls in Queensland’s Capricornia, Wide Bay and Burnett, and Southeast Coast forecast districts. The city of Rockhampton recorded 85 mm to 9 am Wednesday, which made it the wettest August […]
Brisbane is about to see a four-day streak of warm minimums, with thick cloud and rain setting in over the city. The spring-like overnight temperatures are being caused by a thick layer of cloud acting as a blanket overnight, trapping the day’s warmth in. The days of cloud and rain are being driven […]
Flood watches have been issued between central Queensland and northeast New South Wales as unseasonably heavy rain continues to drench parts of eastern Australia. A deep layer of moisture-laden east-northeasterly winds interacting with a pair of upper-level low pressure systems is causing widespread rain over eastern Australia. This drenching kicked off on the weekend and […]
The predicted winter warm spell has arrived in southeastern Australia, with 23°C on the cards for Adelaide this Monday, while Melbourne commences a four-day run of 20-degree weather. August temps of 20°C or higher are far from unknown in Melbourne. While the city’s average August maximum is just 15°C, the highest August temp ever recorded […]
The snow cams at Australia’s mainland ski resorts are looking good for now, but within a week or two, they could be telling a very different story. Australia has seen no significant snowfalls since the last week of July, and there’s nothing expected over the next few days either, with the weather set to warm […]
Stretching high above Earth’s North and South Poles are two swirling columns of extremely cold air encircled by powerful winds. These whirlpools of frigid air and wind are each called the polar vortex, and they can have a big influence on weather patterns across the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. What is a polar vortex? A […]
If you’re sick of the winter chill, how does a temperature approaching 20°C in Melbourne sound for the first two days of next week? How about 22°C in Adelaide, 18°C for Canberra, and even the strong possibility of 20°C in Hobart on Tuesday? An early taste of spring is coming to a broad area of […]
It got seriously cold at times in Australia in July, with Tasmania experiencing a deep freeze in the first week of July as the tiny town of Liawenee dipped to –13.5°C. Other parts of the country also saw extremes of cold, but overall, Australia was much warmer than usual with a nationally averaged temperature that […]
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 […]
