It’s going to be a big week of stormy weather in eastern and northern Australia, especially around midweek, with the potential for severe thunderstorms, large hail, and brief bursts of heavy rainfall which could cause flash flooding. Take a look at the image below. It shows the predicted rainfall accumulation until 11 pm this coming […]
Rain and thunderstorms have been soaking Australia’s Red Centre this week, with Alice Springs picking up more than a month’s worth of rain last night. A broad area of low pressure interacting with a moisture-laden air mass has produced several days of wet and stormy weather in central Australia this week. Earlier in the week, […]
A fire that destroyed buildings and stranded residents in Dolphin Sands on Sunday night has continued to burn into Monday, forcing the Tasmania Fire Service to reissue an emergency warning. An initial Emergency Warning was issued for an out-of-control fire burning near Dolphin Sands on Tasmania’s East Coast on Sunday night. Fanned by wind gusts […]
Severe thunderstorms developed in the Gascoyne and Central West districts of WA on Sunday, lashing the region with fierce wind gusts and intense bursts of rain. Over one million lightning strikes were detected in WA on Sunday and Monday morning along a low-pressure trough extending across large areas of the state. The […]
More than 8 million lightning strikes were detected over the Australian region in the past week during a prolonged outbreak of thunderstorms that will continue into the middle of November. Late-spring is always a ripe time for thunderstorms in Australia. At this time of year, warm air over the Australian continent interacts with much […]
The tap across northern Australia is turning on this week, with daily thunderstorms and rain set to break the dry season for large areas. Moisture laden air feeding into an area of low pressure across the northern tropics is behind the stormy and steamy week. The map below shows the accumulated weekly rainfall predicted […]
One look at the map of rain predicted over Australia this week shows that part of every state and territory will see some wet weather during the next 7 days, with a few areas in line for a soaking. Image: Forecast accumulated precipitation between Monday and Sunday this week, according to the ECMWF-HRES model. […]
It was dry across Australia in October, but Western Australia did it tougher than the rest, with its driest October on record. Nationally, it was Australia’s 5th-driest October since national records began to be kept in 1900. It was also the 5th-driest October in South Australia, the 6th-driest in the Northern Territory, and the […]
Wet weather is about to return to parched and fire-weary areas of eastern Australia, with 7 to 10 days of rain and thunderstorms set to soak parts of Qld and NSW. A stationary low pressure trough being fed by persistent moisture-laden easterly winds will cause rain and thunderstorms over parts of eastern Australia each day […]
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 […]
