A late-winter thunderstorm outbreak is unfolding across eastern and southeastern Australia today, with severe thunderstorms likely in several states. As the sun rose on Monday morning, thunderstorms were stretching from the eastern inland of the NT down to western VIC, spanning close to 3000 km in distance. This morning’s thunderstorms were unusually active for […]
The warm and sunny months of the year are fast approaching, with the potential for solar generation to increase in the coming months. As we near spring, the days are slowly becoming longer and warmer as we approach the spring equinox in late September. The spring equinox is the tipping point where days become longer […]
Parts of Tasmania have seen a months worth of rainfall in the last week, providing a decent injection of water into the Tassie hydro lakes. August is Tasmania’s second wettest month with a state-wide monthly average of 148.2 mm. This sits just behind July (154.4 mm) and a smidgen ahead of May (135.7 mm) […]
Parts of southwestern Australia just shivered through their coldest day in more than a decade as a polar air mass hit WA. The sequence of satellite images below shows a cold front and trailing polar air mass passing over the southwest of WA during the last two days. Video: Composite infrared/visible satellite images over […]
‘ One of this season’s coldest air masses to cross southwestern Australia could produce hail near Perth and deliver a dusting of snow in the Stirling Ranges during the next 48 hours. The satellite image below shows a long band of cloud arriving in southwestern Australia on Monday morning, revealing the location of a cold […]
DTN APAC, a DTN company, offers wind and power generation forecasting to assist in determining your wind farm’s output, reducing costly errors. Whether you have an existing windfarm, or looking for an optimal wind farm location, we provide crucial data to give you greater awareness of your generation capacity. From vertical wind profiling, to […]
Melbourne and other parts of Victoria just endured their coldest morning since 2018, with more than half of the state registering temperatures below zero degrees. A high pressure system passing over southeastern Australia on Tuesday night, in the wake of a cold front, caused a wintry combination of cold air, clear skies and light […]
A frigid airmass is causing temperatures to plummet this week across southeastern Australia, with temperatures likely to peak to around 3-5ºC below average in several capital cities. The cold airmass has moved across southeastern Australia in the wake of a cold front that swept through the region on the weekend. Visible satellite imagery from […]
Hordes of Australians flock to the snow every winter to go skiing and snowboarding in the Alps. But snow plays another important role in Australia by providing electricity to households and businesses across the National Electricity Market (NEM). What is hydropower? Hydropower is a renewable source of energy that converts fast running or falling water into […]
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 […]
