Another showery night in Perth has delivered enough rain to make this Perth’s first wetter-than-average month in more than one year. The animation below shows showers streaming over Perth and other areas of southwestern Australia late on Thursday. This wet weather was caused by persistent onshore winds along the west coast of WA, and the […]

The weather is feeling quite spring-like over northern NSW and southern Queensland, with warm days, smoke from hazard reduction burns and even a chance of thunderstorms on Thursday and Friday. Northerly winds ahead of a trough and cold front are creating a very mild winter’s day, with temperatures 4-7 degrees above the July average across […]

Perth has enjoyed its wettest 24-hour period in over a year, after 43.8 mm fell in the 24 hours to 9 am Thursday. Weatherzone meteorologist Ashleigh Madden wrote on Wednesday afternoon that a cold, wet change was heading the way of southwest SA, and the cold front duly arrived on Wednesday evening. As you can […]

A blocking-high pressure system will park itself directly over Tasmania this week, and is forecast to become so strong, it challenges an Australian record. High pressure is crossing the Great Australian Bight after a cold front swept over southeastern Australia this weekend. While high pressure is common after a cold front, this particular high pressure […]

Yet more rain fell across western and southwestern parts of WA on Thursday and overnight into Friday, including areas that have had a remarkably dry period. Rottnest Island is enjoying its first above-average month of rainfall in 12 months – a period that included a record dry spell of seven months with just 7 mm […]

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 […]