Another showery night in Perth has delivered enough rain to make this Perth’s first wetter-than-average month in more than one year. The animation below shows showers streaming over Perth and other areas of southwestern Australia late on Thursday. This wet weather was caused by persistent onshore winds along the west coast of WA, and the […]
The weather is feeling quite spring-like over northern NSW and southern Queensland, with warm days, smoke from hazard reduction burns and even a chance of thunderstorms on Thursday and Friday. Northerly winds ahead of a trough and cold front are creating a very mild winter’s day, with temperatures 4-7 degrees above the July average across […]
Fierce winds are moving across parts of WA, SA, Vic, NSW and the ACT on Friday as two intense cold fronts sweep across southern Australia. The satellite image below shows the first cold front moving over SA and the other following closely behind in the Bight. Image: Himawari-9 satellite images at around 6:40am on Friday, […]
The coming weeks’ weather will be a mixed bag of severe weather and mild wintry weather, in response to a shift in the jetstream. Our planet’s jetstreams are bands of fast-moving air that sit about 10km above the surface. They typically flow from west to east and lie between regions of contrasting temperature. You […]
Perth has enjoyed its wettest 24-hour period in over a year, after 43.8 mm fell in the 24 hours to 9 am Thursday. Weatherzone meteorologist Ashleigh Madden wrote on Wednesday afternoon that a cold, wet change was heading the way of southwest SA, and the cold front duly arrived on Wednesday evening. As you can […]
Heavy rain has fallen in parts of Victoria overnight, with 100 mm recorded at two weather stations, and flood watches in places for several forecast districts. Several other locations across the state recorded falls in excess of 50 mm to 9 am Tuesday, as a low pressure system over the Tasman Sea directed moisture onto […]
The low pressure system just east of Tasmania has delivered the heaviest rain of the year to many parts of Tasmania as well as wild winds exceeding 100 km/h. This is a strong, intense low pressure system and it’s drawing in plenty of moisture from the Tasman Sea to the east. That’s why the chart […]
A rare sudden stratospheric warming event is beginning to occur above Antarctica, and it may influence Australia’s weather in the coming weeks. The term sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) refers to an abrupt increase in air temperature high above either of Earth’s polar regions, typically on the magnitude of tens of degrees Celsius in a few […]
A major polar outbreak in southeastern Australia next week will produce a powerful low pressure system that is likely to bring severe weather to several states. A large pool of cold air that originated over waters near Antarctica will spread across southeastern Australia from this weekend into next week. This polar air mass will cause […]
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 […]
