Today, November 1, marks the beginning of Australia’s 2024-25 tropical cyclone season. Here’s what to expect over Australia’s tropics this season and what each cyclone will be named. The Australian tropical cyclone season runs from the start of November to the end of April. While tropical cyclones can occur in the Australian region at any […]

A burst of unusually hot weather will cause severe to extreme heatwave conditions across parts of three states and territories in northern Australia this week, with the heat also elevating fire danger ratings in some places. Northern Australia is certainly no stranger to heat at this time of year. The country’s highest temperature ever recorded […]

Globally, ocean temperatures are at record levels for the second consecutive year, and this has played a part in creating one of the costliest hurricane seasons on record in the North Atlantic. Forecasts are suggesting a similar impact of the hot oceans here in Australia for the coming tropical cyclone season. Link between hot oceans […]

Sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean suggest that a negative phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) may be emerging, which could influence Australian weather patterns in the coming months. What is the Indian Ocean Dipole? The IOD is an index that measures the difference in sea surface temperatures across the tropical Indian Ocean. […]

Spring has been a stormy season for large areas of WA, with another few big storm days ahead in the Pilbara and Kimberley region.  Merely a week ago, widespread thunderstorms lashed the interior of WA, with Total Lightning Network detecting 605,166 lightning strikes on Wednesday, October 2.  Thunderstorms are again forecast over the coming days […]

The number of tropical cyclones in the Australian region is expected to be close to the long-term average in the official season which runs from the start of November to the end of April, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. But the BoM cautions that the likelihood of severe tropical cyclones of Category 3, 4, […]

A quintessentially spring-like week is upon Australia, with a contrasting mix of thunderstorms in Queensland and Western Australia, cold and snow in Tasmania, heat in the Northern Territory and rain possibly developing in the southeast. Storms in Queensland and NSW A thunderstorm outbreak will be ramping up over eastern Qld and northeast NSW, with a […]

A deep low pressure system and associated front and trough will generate widespread damaging winds and locally destructive wind gusts across parts of southern WA today, with the potential for severe thunderstorms to develop during the afternoon. The cold front crossed the coast earlier this morning causing temperatures to plummet and delivering widespread rainfall totals […]

Parts of northwest WA saw the warmest minimum temperatures and highest rainfall on record in September, with a mean of nearly 6°C above average recorded at Port Hedland.   The map below shows a large portion of the state saw well above average nighttime temperatures in September, except for parts of the southeast which saw […]