After its driest September on record with average maximum temps almost three degrees above average, Melbourne is into its third day of a cold October outbreak, and that wintry feeling is not going anywhere for a few days yet. In fact, Melbourne could be looking at its coldest six-day run of October maximum temperatures for […]
Parts of NSW sweated through the warmest October night in decades, with minimum temperatures in some areas failing to fall below 22°C. The warm night followed an exceptionally hot day in NSW, with temperatures soaring into the high 30’s across parts of the state on Tuesday. The hot airmass was transported over NSW by strong and […]
Extremely heavy rain has fallen in parts of Victoria overnight, with a top fall of a mind-boggling 198.8 mm at Mt Hotham to 9 am Wednesday, and numerous flood warnings already in place. This was Mt Hotham’s wettest day in any month in at least 46 years of records. You always expect the high […]
Australia has had its driest September on record, led by huge rainfall deficiencies in the Murray-Darling Basin. Most of the country was well above average for maximums too, with NSW, Victoria and WA setting new records. Rainfall Australia as a whole averaged a measly 4.8mm of rain during September, the lowest on record for September […]
Thunderstorms have developed in southeast Qld and northeast NSW on Thursday, bringing a risk of heavy rainfall to the region. The storms are being triggered on a southerly change which is moving up the Qld coast on Thursday afternoon. The video below shows the storms moving slowly across the region. On Wednesday night, over half […]
Another burst of record-challenging early-season heat will sweep through Sydney in the opening days of October, with temperatures tipped to reach the high thirties in some suburbs on Sunday. A large mass of hot air that is currently building over central and western Australia will drift towards Australia’s east coast from this weekend, ahead […]
It was Geraldton’s hottest September day in more than a century. Temperature records are being broken in WA today as a searing air mass spreads across the state’s north and west. A high pressure system centred over the Great Australian Bight is causing a pool of hot air to intensify over northwestern Australia, with temperatures […]
Anticipating a Solar Power Renaissance: A Bright Outlook for Sustainable Energy in the Coming Year Australia has passed the spring equinox and will now have more daylight than darkness for the rest of the year. Solar power is set to soar as the long days, warm and sunny months of the year are upon […]
A positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event is gaining strength to the northwest of Australia, increasing the risk of hot and dry weather and fires in the coming months. What is the IOD? The IOD is an index that measures the difference in sea surface temperature anomalies between the western and eastern sides of the […]
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 […]
