Sydney is now having one of its wettest Januarys since the 1980s after intense thunderstorms dumped half a month’s worth of rain in just one hour on Monday evening. Most Sydneysiders started 2023 with hopes that the flood- and mould-producing rain of 2022 was a thing of the past. But with La Nina still in […]
Australia’s southernmost two capital cities both saw their driest month in 11 months this January, with the rain taps turned off in both Hobart and Melbourne. Melbourne had just 20.2 mm of rain, the lowest since Feb 2022 Hobart registered just 11 mm, also the lowest since Feb 2022 You can see the situation illustrated […]
Potentially severe thunderstorms could interrupt a warm Australia Day in Sydney and surrounding areas of central NSW this Thursday. A warm and mostly sunny morning will entice millions of people to head outdoors across the Greater Sydney region on the Australia Day public holiday this Thursday. Beaches will be bustling, parks will be packed, […]
It’s a chilly one in southeast Australia this Thursday, after a couple of days of serious summer heat. Temperatures plummeted to -1.8°C overnight at Mt Hotham in the Victorian High Country, which was the coldest reading of 2023 to date anywhere in Australia. As you can see in the image below showing live temps just […]
Sydney has just reached 30ºC for the first time in 11 months, ending its second longest run of days below 30ºC on record. The temperature at Sydney’s Observatory Hill weather station, located near the southern end of the Harbour Bridge, surpassed 30ºC at 2:16pm on Wednesday. While 30ºC days are not uncommon in Sydney during […]
Summer is heating up, with heatwaves declared in five states, as well as the ACT, as a large high pressure directs a northerly airflow over the southern half of the country. The heat will not be too extreme by many people’s standards. For example, no 40-degree day is forecast for any capital city. So why […]
February 21, 2022, was unlike any day the city of Sydney has seen since. That’s because it was the last time the city reached a temperature of 30°C or higher. As of today (Wednesday, January 11) it is 323 days since the last 30-degree day. That’s the third longest streak in records dating back to […]
Southwestern parts of Western Australia are in for a wild 48 hours as extreme heat, strong winds, extreme fire danger and thunderstorms are all expected to hit the region. A trough over the southeast is drawing heat in from the interior. Daytime temperatures are fairly similar to last week’s burst of heat, with many locations […]
Perth is in the middle of a five-day heatwave that is dredging up memories of last year’s searing Christmas heat. Thankfully, this week’s hot weather won’t be as intense as last year’s and it will end just in time for the Christmas break. Perth endured an exceptionally hot Christmas in 2021, reaching 42.8ºC on December […]
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 […]
