The tropics will awaken across northern Australia this week, with huge rainfall totals, thunderstorms, tropical lows and tropical cyclone risk all on the cards.  This active week across northern Australia is being driven by a strong monsoon trough and the Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) in the region.   As we mentioned last week, the […]

Over 4 months of rainfall has fallen in a single day in southeastern parts of WA, with the chance of over a years’ worth of rainfall falling by the end of the week. Eyre, along WA’s southern coast, experienced unprecedented heavy rainfall, with 141mm of rainfall was recorded in the gauge to 9am WST Sunday. […]

An active pulse of the Madden-Julian Oscillation will increase the risk of tropical cyclones and thunderstorms in the Australian region over the coming week. The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) refers to a pulse of increased tropical cloud, rainfall and thunderstorm activity that moves through our planet’s atmosphere, from west to east, near the equator. The MJO […]

Large areas of Australia saw an above average number of lightning days this summer, with Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane all seeing 5 to 6 extra storm days during the season. Australia always sees lots of lightning during summer as hot air, abundant moisture and ample atmospheric instability combine to create ideal conditions for thunderstorms. The […]

Rain and thunderstorms will replace extreme heat over large areas of WA this week, with some places in the state’s north likely to see enough rain to officially mark the start of the wet season. In Australia, the northern wet season is defined as the date after September 1 when at least 50 mm of […]

Ex- Tropical Cyclone Lincoln should re-develop into cyclone off the Kimberley coast in WA on Friday night, before setting its sights on the Pilbara and northern Gascoyne in the next 48 hours.   Lincoln will be the first Tropical Cyclone to impact WA this season, but it is the second Tropical Cyclone to move into the Western […]

  Ex-Tropical cyclone Lincoln is likely to re-develop into a cyclone by Friday morning, before it sets its path towards the Pilbara or Gascoyne coasts on the weekend.  The image below shows clouds rotating around ex- tropical cyclone Lincoln on Thursday morning when the system was around 270 km northwest of Broome.   Image: Himawari-9 satellite imagery […]

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln is about to move off the Kimberley coast and looks likely re-intensify into a tropical cyclone to the north of WA later this week. Tropical Cyclone Lincoln made landfall on the south coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria last Friday. Since then, the system has been tracking across northern Australia as an […]

  There are growing concerns that ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln could redevelop and move towards the Pilbara coast later this week   Tropical Cyclone Lincoln crossed the NT coast near Borroloola last Friday, February 16 and weakened as it moved inland through the central NT and the Kimberley region in WA.    The ex-tropical cyclone (07U) has dumped […]