A cold Southern Ocean air mass will spread across Australia this week, causing a run of wintry days and nights for much of the country before possibly culminating in heavy rain along the east coast. The image below shows a tongue of cold air extending from the Southern Ocean towards southwestern Australia on Monday. This […]
A massive northwest cloudband is starting to spread rain across about 80 percent of Australia, including much-needed falls in drought-affected areas of southern Australia. A cut-off low pressure system will interact with a stream of tropical moisture over the next four to five days, producing one of the biggest rainbands Australia has seen in recent […]
Intense flooding rainfall, powerful winds and large waves impacted Hong Kong and southern China on Sunday as Typhoon Wipha crossed the region cancelling hundreds of flights and resulting in local closures of businesses. The sixth tropical storm of the western Pacific typhoon season intensified into Typhoon Wipha early on Sunday, July 20, 2025. The satellite […]
The southwestern tip of Western Australia is the latest corner of the country to see exceptionally heavy winter rainfall, with 24-hour totals topping 100mm at some locations, and over 250,000 lightning strikes causing costly shutdown procedures. Storms and heavy downpours pelted much of the South West Land Division on Wednesday as a cold front and […]
The East Coast Low lashed large parts of the NSW coastline in the 24 hours to Wednesday morning as damaging to destructive winds, intense rainfall and large waves disrupted industries from aviation to ports, and transport to power utilities. The stretch of NSW coastline from the Hunter region to the South Coast has been most […]
Heavy rain, destructive winds and damaging surf will batter eastern NSW in the coming days following the explosive development of an East Coast Low leading to significant disruptions to transport, aviation and utilities. A coastal trough located off the southeast Queensland and northeast NSW coast rapidly intensified into a low pressure system overnight into Tuesday […]
Warnings for strong to gale force winds, hazardous surf and flooding are in place across eastern NSW and southeast Queensland as an East Coast Low develops. A deepening coastal trough over southeast Queensland and northeast NSW has already brought widespread falls of 30 to 70mm over Sunday afternoon and Monday morning. Dunwich Airport, on North […]
Heavy rain, intense winds and large surf could impact eastern NSW next week as a significant low pressure system develops off the coast, with potential for an East Coast Low. East Coast Lows (ECL) are a type of low pressure systems that rapidly form and stay within close proximity to the east coast of Australia […]
Gusty winds and heavy rain are impacting parts of Vietnam and southern China as the first tropical storm of the season, named Wutip, closes in on Hainan Island. The satellite loop below shows Tropical Storm Wutip, which translates to “butterfly” in Cantonese, spinning to the east of Da Nang, Vietnam. Video: Satellite loop of Tropical […]
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 […]
