Australia’s northern fire season is expected to be more active than usual in some areas, thanks to an abundance of dry vegetation in the wake of a failed wet season.  Northern Australia’s fire danger typically increases as vegetation loses moisture during the dry season, which runs from May to October.  This year, some areas […]

  Renewable energy is fast becoming a major source of energy across Australia and this revolution is affecting the mining industry.  Energy is one of the biggest expenses for mining companies. This is being compounded by the current cost and volatility of energy amid the surging price of gas and a complex mix of international […]

  Unseasonably heavy rainfall is set to continue across parts of the Pilbara and Kimberley during the next 48 hours as a low pressure system sits off the northwest coast of WA.  The map below shows a thick northwest cloudband engulfing WA on Monday morning.    This cloudband and the associated low have brought widespread […]

  Heavy rain will soak parts of WA’s Pilbara and Interior over the next two to three days, bringing a risk of flooding for the second time in one week. A deepening low pressure trough being fed with a stream of tropical moisture caused a cloudband to develop over northwestern Australia on Tuesday morning. Rain […]

  A month’s worth of rain has fallen in parts of the west Pilbara during the last 24 hours as a rainband from the Indian Ocean sweeps over northwestern Australia. Moisture from Ex-Tropical Cyclone Karim interacting with a strong cold front caused a thuck band of rain-bearing cloud to drift over the Gascoyne and western […]

  A burst of late-wet season rain has inundated parts of northern and central QLD, with some areas picking up more than 700 mm of rain over the past five days. Image: Observed rainfall anomalies between October 2021 and March 2022. Source: Bureau of Meteorology. Northern Australia’s wet season runs from October to April. By […]

  Heavy rainfall and flooding at a mine site or associated railways or roads can shut down operations for days, costing the business economically.  Within the mine site, heavy rain can damage the haul roads used by dump trucks on a daily basis as part of standard operations. In some cases, this can become unsafe and […]

  During this year’s prolific rainfall and catastrophic flooding events, Weatherzone supported the insurance sector and helped minimise the impacts to their business.  Weather affects the insurance business at all levels of operation, from risk assessment to sales and claim management. For this reason, a sound understanding of short and long-term weather risks is an […]

  A tropical low pressure system near the Cocos Keeling Islands has the potential to develop into a cyclone in the Australian region on Tuesday.   This map below shows cloud encircling the low sitting to the southeast of Cocos Islands on Monday.    Image: Visible satellite image at 8:50am WST on Monday, March 14 […]