An outbreak of severe thunderstorms will affect parts of Qld, NSW, the ACT and Vic on Good Friday, with a chance of very dangerous supercells as people hit the roads for the long weekend. This Friday marks the start of the four-day Easter long weekend across Australia and the beginning of the school holidays for […]
Rain will fall over large areas of every Australian state and territory this week as two northwest cloudbands sweep across the country. Northwest cloudbands are large bands of cloud that spread across Australia from the northwest towards the southeast. They are caused by moisture-laden air from the tropical Indian Ocean and typically produce widespread rain […]
Severe storms have ripped through Melbourne and Canberra on Thursday morning, delivering brief but heavy downpours in many suburbs, with the strong chance of more to come in both cities, as well as Sydney. The storms in Canberra and Melbourne struck just after 9 am, as you can see on the radar loop below which […]
A surge of tropical moisture will produce heavy rain and thunderstorms in parts of northwest and central Queensland during the next several days, likely causing flooding and road closures in parts of the state. A slow-moving tropical low pressure system will help drag copious moisture across Qld from the northwest in the coming days. The […]
Fires have become out of control in central NSW as the region sees its worst bushfire conditions since Black Summer. As of 4pm AEDT, two bushfires were at emergency levels: One near Tambaroora, located about 50km north of Bathurst Another near Cranbrook, roughly 20 km south of Dubbo Today’s hot and windy weather has produced […]
Several large fires continue to burn across southern Qld today, creating smoke plumes so large that they can be seen by satellites sitting more than 35,000 km above Earth’s surface. A wet spring followed by an unusually dry start to summer has caused a build-up of dry vegetation over the southeast inland of Qld […]
Norfolk Island just endured a direct hit from a category 2 tropical cyclone but barely had winds reach the strength of a category 1 system. So how did they escape the worst and how lucky was it? What weather did they receive? Norfolk Island recorded a maximum wind gust of 102km/h, typical of a category […]
It promises to be a nervous few days for the 2200 residents of Norfolk Island, as a dangerous tropical storm develops in the Coral Sea and tracks southwards. At this stage, the weather system is still classified as a tropical low, but it’s likely to develop into a cyclone in the next day or so. […]
The Madden-Julian Oscillation and the monsoon are starting their second approach of the season towards Australia, along with their elevated risk of tropical cyclone development. The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is an eastward moving pulse of tropical activity that travels the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It affects Australia the greatest between November and April, but […]
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 […]
