Two cold fronts will bring rain, thunderstorms and blustery winds to southwestern Australia during the next five days, continuing Perth’s wet start to winter. The satellite images below show a cold front passing over the Indian Ocean on Wednesday, approaching Australia from the west. This front will reach the southwest of WA on Thursday and […]
Rain is set to increase on Wednesday, with hundreds of millimetres in just two days possible for the Illawarra and South Coast regions. An upper-level low will cause rain to spread over eastern Australia in the next three days, with the possibility of heavy falls in NSW and Vic. The satellite image below shows […]
Well done, Brisbane. You’ve just shivered your way through your first night of the year below 10 degrees. The temperature in downtown Brisbane dipped to a chilly 8.2°C overnight, with a reading of 7.2°C at the airport and much colder temps inland, including –0.1°C at Kingaroy, which was the Sunshine Coast hinterland town’s first subzero […]
Sydney endured its second wettest June day on record on the weekend as a bombing low pressure system rapidly intensified off the NSW coast. The radar animation below shows heavy and persistent rain hammering central eastern NSW on the weekend. #Sydney‘s 142.6mm during the last 24 hours was the city’s heaviest daily rain in […]
The taps turned on during the opening days of winter in the southwest of WA, after some areas recorded the driest autumn on record. The rain and thunderstorms over the weekend were triggered by a strong cold front sweeping across the state, interacting with tropical moisture and the warm sea surface temperatures off the WA coastline. […]
Rain, thunderstorms, powerful winds and dangerous surf will affect parts of eastern and southeastern Australia over the next few days under the influence of a northwest cloudband and two low pressure systems. The images below show a northwest cloudband traversing Australia over the past three days. This massive band of cloud, which was caused by […]
Heavy rainfall, severe thunderstorms and damaging winds will hit parts of WA this weekend as another strong cold front sweeps over the state. Earlier this week, a cold front and northwest cloud band provided some much-needed rainfall to some drought-stricken parts of WA, with 50 to 100mm of rain falling in parts of the southwest […]
A severe weather warning has been issued for damaging winds across all 11 weather districts in Tasmania on Friday, with dangerous gusts also likely in parts of Victoria, NSW and the ACT over the next two days. A strong cold front will cross southeastern Australia on Thursday and Friday, with an associated low pressure system passing […]
Southeastern Australia is basking in another day of balmy autumnal weather, but this will end abruptly with winter arriving a day early. This dramatic temperature contrast is being caused by a strong cold front which is expected to march across southeastern Australia during the next 48 hours. The image below shows the cold […]
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 […]
