A sweltering inland air mass will filter across NSW on Sunday, bringing scorching autumn heat that could cause challenges across the energy market. This heat will be drawn from the Australian interior by a broad low pressure trough and cold front crossing the country’s southeast, leading to increasingly hot temperatures into the weekend. The hottest […]
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred brought intense rainfall and strong winds over the weekend, leaving about 450,000 homes across southeast Queensland and northeast NSW without power. The video below shows heavy rainfall impacting southeast Queensland and northeast NSW on Sunday evening as the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Alfred moved inland. Image: Six-hour radar and satellite loop to […]
More than 700 mm of rain could inundate parts of southeast Queensland and northeast NSW later this week as Tropical Cyclone Alfred makes landfall, impacting businesses in the densely populated stretch of Australia’s east coast. At 10am AEST on Monday, Alfred was a category one tropical cyclone located about 465km east northeast of Brisbane. Image: […]
Tropical Cyclone Alfred and Bianca formed near Australia on Sunday, with businesses across northern Australia on high alert. The video below shows Bianca over the Indian Ocean to the west of Australia and Alfred in the Coral Sea to the east of Qld. Video: Himawari-9 infrared satellite image at 10am AEDT on Monday February […]
Two tropical cyclones could form in the Australian region by the start of next week, one in the Coral Sea and the other off the north coast of WA. Our team of meteorologists have been helping our clients assess the potential risks to their businesses in the coming week. It has been one week since […]
Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia is intensifying rapidly to the north of Western Australia and is expected to make landfall as a destructive category 5 system on Friday, impacting mining, port and offshore oil and gas operations in the region. While Zelia only became a tropical cyclone on Wednesday morning, the system has intensified rapidly over […]
A severe tropical cyclone could make landfall in northern WA, impacting mining, port and offshore oil and gas operations in the region. At 8am AWST on Tuesday, a tropical low was spinning off the northern coast of WA, roughly 295 km to the northwest of Broome. This developing low pressure system is causing large pulses […]
A developing tropical low off Australia’s northwest coast has a high chance of becoming a tropical cyclone by the middle of this week, possibly as early as Tuesday. The animation below shows a large mass of convective clouds to the north of WA on Monday morning, revealing the location of the developing tropical low. Image: […]
A massive line of dangerous thunderstorms is bearing down on Sydney this Monday morning, having already impacted parts of central NSW transport operations. Heavy rainfall will develop from this afternoon along the NSW South Coast, however the immediate weather flashpoint is the entire Sydney region, with the BoM declaring a storm in southwest Sydney as […]
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 […]
