Thick cloud, rain, strong winds and severe thunderstorms have impacted parts of WA in the last 48 hours, which is set to continue for the next few days.  A low pressure system to the southwest of WA, another to the south and a northwest cloud band are responsible for the wild weather.  The satellite image […]

Parts of central Queensland received more than 100 mm of rain in the last 24 hours, with some towns picking up their best June rain in eight years. The thick cloud and rain has reduced solar output across the state over the past day or so. A multi-day soaking is targeting central Qld this week […]

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 northwest cloudband and thunderstorms soaked the Pilbara on Wednesday, delivering five times the June average rain in a day at one town.  The images below show thick cloud, rain and thunderstorms streaming into the Pilbara region from the Indian Ocean on Wednesday afternoon.  Image: Himawari-9 satellite images for the three hours leading up to 6pm […]

Another northwest cloud band has brought significant rain to parts of the southwest during the last 24 hours, with more to come.  The largest totals southwest WA has seen in the 24 hours leading up to 9am on Wednesday, June 12 were;  Maxon Farm recorded 31mm   Lancelin (defence) saw 19.2mm fall  14.8mm fell at […]

Heavy rainfall, severe thunderstorms and damaging winds will hit parts of WA this weekend as another strong cold front sweeps over the state.  Earlier this week, a cold front and northwest cloud band provided some much-needed rainfall to some drought-stricken parts of WA, with 50 to 100mm of rain falling in parts of the southwest […]

A series of cold fronts will deliver much-needed rain to southwestern Australia this week, easing a drought that has broken records over the past seven months. The animation below shows cloud streaming over WA on Tuesday morning ahead of an approaching cold front. This is the first in a series of cold fronts and low […]

There’s a feature on this week’s weather charts which we haven’t seen for many months in Australia and which is a sign that winter is almost upon us: a northwest cloudband. Northwest cloudbands are vast layers of cloud that flow over Australia from the northwest. Once fully developed, the cloudband stretches across the country like […]

A series of cold fronts are setting their sights on southern WA in the next 10 days, bringing fierce winds, showers, thunderstorms and cooler temperatures.  The stubborn high-pressure system that has sat over the Bight for weeks, preventing cold fronts from making it to WA, will finally move east this week.  This will cause an […]