A wave of warm air will sweep across Australia this week, sending temperatures to their highest levels in months in several states and territories. A high pressure system sitting over southeastern Australia at the start of this week will allow a hot air mass to build over WA. This heat will send temperatures into […]
An outbreak of early-spring thunderstorms has caused prolific lightning over Australia’s southeastern states during the last 24 hours. The animation below shows lightning spreading across central and southeastern Australia on Thursday and Friday morning. These storms were triggered by a large pool of cold air from the Southern Ocean clashing with much warmer air […]
Melbourne will shiver today through one of the coldest days of the year despite entering the second week of spring. The satellite image shows a region of speckled cloud sweeping across Southern Australia, highlighting a large cold airmass moving over SA and parts of Vic on Friday morning. Image: Himawari Satellite Image showing frigid […]
The strong early spring cold front continues its march across eastern Australia, generating wild winds and a huge line of storms stretching from southern Qld, all the way through NSW, and into Victoria. No notable rainfall totals have been reported yet with this system in NSW or Vic as it’s moving pretty quickly and tending […]
Australia just had its warmest winter in more than a century of records with lean snow cover and prolific lightning rounding out an almost unrecognisable season. Australia’s national mean temperature in winter 2023 was 16.73ºC, which is 1.53ºC above the 1961-1990 average. This was the country’s highest mean winter temperature in records dating back to […]
If you live in the southern half of Australia, take extra care when deciding what to wear this week because temperatures will bounce around like a seesaw. September is always a time of contrasting temperatures across Australia as warm continental air masses battle much colder air arriving from the Southern Ocean. The chart below shows […]
The first day of spring is nearly here and solar power is set to soar as the warm and sunny months of the year are upon us. During spring the days will slowly becoming longer and warmer as we approach the spring equinox in late September. The spring equinox is the tipping point where […]
It’s the sort of stormy day in large parts of New South Wales and Queensland this Wednesday that reminds you that spring is just around the corner. You can see the storms moving across the central and eastern parts of the eastern states on Wednesday afternoon on the loop below, many of them tracking […]
On Tuesday, South Australia basked in an unusually warm winter day dropping energy demand across the state. It is rare to see a 26ºC day in Adelaide during winter, but that’s exactly what happened on Tuesday as the state sweated in summer-like warmth during the final week of winter. An unusually warm air mass […]
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 […]
