Australia has just shivered through its coldest night of 2024 to date with a low of –9°C at Thredbo Top Station, but perhaps the most remarkable minimums were recorded not down south, but in Queensland. Frost would surely have been coating the ground in the tropics earlier this Tuesday morning, with temperatures of 0°C or […]
Sub-zero temperatures sent shivers across six states and territories on Monday morning, with some places experiencing their lowest temperatures in 2 to 4 years. A lingering cold air mass combined with clear skies and relatively light winds caused temperatures to plunge across large areas of southeastern and eastern Australia on Sunday night into Monday morning. […]
It’s a chilly one this Friday across the most heavily populated corner of the country, as a thick layer of cloud prevents the sun’s warmth from bumping up temperatures. Take a look at the chart below at midday on Friday, June 14. The first feature of interest is the widespread cloud covering almost all of […]
Another northwest cloud band has brought significant rain to parts of the southwest during the last 24 hours, with more to come. The largest totals southwest WA has seen in the 24 hours leading up to 9am on Wednesday, June 12 were; Maxon Farm recorded 31mm Lancelin (defence) saw 19.2mm fall 14.8mm fell at […]
Snow has fallen across the high country of Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT, with the hydropower season officially beginning. Snowfalls totals were in the light to moderate range depending on the location in the mountains. Perisher ski resort in NSW is calling 25 cm on the ground, with most other resorts reporting […]
NSW and Qld shivered through its coolest morning of the year on Tuesday, driving up energy demand in the National Electricity Market (NEM). The satellite image below shows cloud free skies across the northern half of Australia early Tuesday morning, which allowed temperatures to drop below freezing in some places. Image: Himawari-9 infrared satellite […]
Huge 24-hour rainfall totals have again been recorded in and around Sydney region, with over 200 mm of rain recorded at some spots to 9 am Friday. The rain was heaviest in the Illawarra region just south of Sydney, with extremely heavy falls also recorded in the Southern Highlands, most of which lies in the […]
The Illawarra has endured heavy rainfall overnight and this morning, with the deluge set to continue and spread north into the Warragamba catchment on Thursday. The persistent rainfall is being caused by an upper low pressure system over NSW, which has caused a surface trough and low to deepen over the Tasman Sea. A continuous stream […]
Rain, and plenty of it, is forecast to drench areas south and west of Sydney on Thursday, with isolated accumulations of up to 250 mm possible within 24 hours in some spots. Weatherzone meteorologist Ashleigh Madden wrote on Tuesday about the eastward-moving upper level low pressure system that could deliver a deluge to parts […]
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 […]
