Australia was 0.71°C above the long-term average nationwide in June 2024. That made it the fifth of six months to date in 2024 in which average temps across the continent temps were much warmer than usual. The monthly nationwide mean temperature anomalies across Australia so far this year have been: Jan +1.54°C Feb +1.71°C March […]
Melbourne is shivering through its first extremely cold morning of the week, with the potential to see one of the coldest weeks in 11 years on the horizon. The temperature at Olympic Park in Melbourne dropped to 3.8°C early Tuesday morning, July 2, which could be the first of many extremely cool nights. As of […]
Rain will drench a large area of central, southern and eastern Australia this week as an unusual weather pattern causes Coral Sea moisture to clash with a cut-off low directly above Australia. A large high pressure system will deepen to the south of Australia later this week, causing a pool of cold upper-level air to […]
A prolonged period of low wind will impact the National Electricity Market (NEM) this week, which is coinciding with bitterly cold weather driving up energy demand in the southeast. The weather systems appear to be stuck, with record challenging high-pressure expected to sit over Tas for an extended period. The images below show this stubborn […]
Australia just shivered through its coldest night of the year to date with a low of –9.6°C at Thredbo Top Station, but it wasn’t just the mountains feeling the chill. Right across southeastern Australia, temperatures were frigid in the wake of the cold front that passed through on Saturday night, and the wind chill added […]
A blocking-high pressure system will park itself directly over Tasmania this week, and is forecast to become so strong, it challenges an Australian record. High pressure is crossing the Great Australian Bight after a cold front swept over southeastern Australia this weekend. While high pressure is common after a cold front, this particular high pressure […]
Melbourne is forecast to have its coldest weekend in four years as a polar air mass spreads over southeastern Australia during the next few days. The animation below shows a large cold air mass reaching the southeast of Australia on Saturday and lingering across parts of Vic, Tas, NSW and SA into the first half […]
Yet more rain fell across western and southwestern parts of WA on Thursday and overnight into Friday, including areas that have had a remarkably dry period. Rottnest Island is enjoying its first above-average month of rainfall in 12 months – a period that included a record dry spell of seven months with just 7 mm […]
Thick cloud, rain, strong winds and severe thunderstorms have impacted parts of WA in the last 48 hours, which is set to continue for the next few days. A low pressure system to the southwest of WA, another to the south and a northwest cloud band are responsible for the wild weather. The satellite image […]
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 […]
