Rain, wind and waves are intensifying along the north coast of NSW as a low pressure system starts to form off the coast. An upper-level trough passing over NSW has caused widespread rain over eastern Australia during last couple of days. The heaviest rain during the 24 hours to 9am on Friday fell along the […]
A burst of heavy rain and blustery winds will continue to batter eastern NSW over the next three days, with the state’s northeast coast set to see a particularly dangerous mix of rain, wind and surf on Friday and Saturday. An upper-level trough interacting with a feed of tropical moisture caused rain to spread across […]
Thursday is going to be a wild day for Sydneysiders, with an uncomfortable mix of gale force winds, the wettest day since June 2024, and a feels-like temperature as low as 6°C all on the forecast. The combination of a strong and icy southerly change and a thick rainband is behind the wintry weather […]
This spring is shaping up to be an unusually warm and stormy season for Australia, with some parts of the country also likely to see an increased risk of fires. Australia has entered spring off the back of its warmest August and second warmest winter on record. The end of winter was also very dry […]
Ferocious winds with gusts equivalent to a category two tropical cyclone have caused widespread damage across Victoria in the last 24 hours, along with huge waves and flooding along the coast. A powerful cold front embedded in an unusually strong pressure gradient caused a burst of damaging to destructive winds in Victoria on Sunday night […]
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 […]
Early last month, we said that May would be a make-or-break month for the positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) that could be forming this year. Turns out, it has most likely broken. A positive IOD occurs when the trade winds along the equator blow to the west instead of the east, causing an upwelling of […]
A Tasman Low pressure system will whip up large and powerful swell for several days from Saturday, with the potential to impact port operations along the eastern seaboard. The images below show that a stubborn high-pressure system will cradle the low and keep it over the Tasman Sea between Saturday and Wednesday. Images (top […]
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 […]
