New data shows June was one of the best ever months for renewable energy in Australia’s National Electricity Market and a record-breaking month for wind power. June 2022 was a relatively dry and cool month for much of eastern and southeastern Australia, with frequent periods of strong winds and clear skies. NSW registered its driest June since […]
Blanketing cloud cover and persistent rain sent shivers across large areas of Queensland over the last 48 hours, with Brisbane enduring its coldest pair of days since 1956. The sequence of satellite images below shows a large cloud band slowly passing over central and southeast QLD during the last two days. Daytime temperatures on […]
Australia’s Alps just had their best start to a snow season in 54 years , according to this year’s first official natural snow depth measurement at Spencers Creek in the NSW Snowy Mountains. This early season snow will provide a decent injection of water into the hydro lakes in NSW, VIC and TAS, increasing lake levels and […]
Global Wind Day is a worldwide event that occurs annually on 15 June. WindEurope and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) have declared it’s a day for discovering wind energy, its power and the possibilities it holds to reshape our energy systems, decarbonise our economies and boost jobs and growth. How DTN APAC forecasts […]
All of Australia’s southeastern and eastern capital cities just had their coldest start to winter in decades amid a two-week procession of cold fronts. A series of slow-moving long-wave troughs caused a persistent stream of cold air over southeastern Australia during the first two weeks of June. This weather pattern caused a prolonged run […]
Summer and winter are both challenging seasons for those in the electrical market, but which increases energy demand the most? Heatwaves and cool spells both place a significant strain on the electricity system in Australia, with either the heating or cooling of homes and businesses. Extremely hot or cool temperatures can also impair key […]
Bob Hawke was Australia’s prime minister when Sydney last experienced an opening week of winter this cold. The temperature at Sydney’s Observatory Hill failed to reach 18.5ºC during the first six days of June and is expected to top out at around 17ºC today. While these maximum temperatures are close to the city’s long-term […]
A conveyor belt of cold fronts will maintain bitterly cold, wet and windy weather over southeastern Australia throughout the 2nd week of winter. Australia’s southeastern states have been stuck in a pattern of frequent cold fronts since the end of May, keeping temperatures a few degrees below average on most days this past week. […]
Bill Barker, head ski patroller at Mt Hotham, has seen it all in 35 years at the Victorian ski resort, and is known for his straight-shooting when it comes to on-mountain conditions. So when his morning snow report says it has snowed a whopping 44 centimetres in 24 hours with heavy snow still falling, […]
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 […]
