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 […]

A clear La Niña signal is starting to emerge in the central Pacific Ocean, however the declaration of La Niña depends on a few factors that are still a coin flip chance of occurring. What is La Niña? La Niña is the cool phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that occurs when cooler […]

An outbreak of severe thunderstorms will develop across much of WA during the middle of this week, with the potential for damaging winds and unseasonably cold and wet conditions following it.  This dynamic thunderstorm period will be generated by a low pressure trough sitting across western WA and a deep low pressure system which will increase activity […]

Rain, thunderstorms and a wintry airmass are impacting WA today, with signs that a low pressure system could generate severe weather next week.  A low pressure system in the Bight is extending a cold front across southern WA on Friday morning with another low pressure trough in the Kimberley bringing rain and thunderstorms to northern […]

More than 80% of Australia could see rain this week as a surge of tropical moisture spreads across the country, causing wet weather from the Kimberley to Tasmania. A slow-moving upper-level trough will cause clouds, rain and thunderstorms to gradually spread across Australia from northwest to southeast this week. This system will deliver rain to […]

The heaviest September rain in half a century has fallen over the Pilbara region of Western Australia overnight, with heavy rain still to come for a majority of Australia’s desert areas. Widespread falls of 20-50mm fell over the Pilbara and Kimberley on Saturday night and is continuing on Sunday. Some of the standouts in the […]

It’s been a very active thunderstorm week in the Pilbara and Gascoyne region, with thousands of lightning strikes detected in the region.  The thunderstorms were triggered by a near-stationary trough sitting along WA’s west coast, paired with an unstable airmass and unseasonably warm conditions.  The images below show the lightning strikes (pink), cloud and rain […]