Weatherzone’s WZBob expansion system extends your lightning alerting capabilities in the field, ensuring your staff stay safe and aware. With a combination of light beacons, sounders and a modular, scalable configuration, you can customise the setup to suit any site arrangement and maximise your coverage. Seamless, Scalable Integration WZBob easily integrates with your existing […]
There’s an invisible layer of air in the sky that can have significant impacts on communities and industries across Australia. This unseen phenomenon is called a temperature inversion and you could be standing in one right now without even realising it. What is a temperature inversion? The air near the ground is usually warmer […]
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 […]
El Niño–favourable conditions are gathering pace across the tropical Pacific, with key ocean indicators approaching threshold levels and early atmospheric responses emerging. While uncertainty remains around final El Niño strength, historical analogues show that even weak events can generate widespread impacts, including reduced rainfall, warmer daytime temperatures, increased frost risk, elevated fire danger, reduced tropical cyclone activity, and more. Industries including […]
Australia has just experienced a highly impactful tropical cyclone season, with more than 60% of systems reaching severe intensity, causing widespread disruption and damage to communities and multiple industries across northern Australia. The 2025–26 Australian tropical cyclone season officially ran from 1 November 2025 to 30 April 2026. During this six-month period, Australia saw 11 tropical cyclones, with nine […]
There are signs that a very strong, or ‘super’ El Niño could develop in the tropical Pacific Ocean later this year. So, what does this mean for Australia’s weather during the second half of 2026? El Niño on the horizon The tropical Pacific Ocean is currently in a neutral state, meaning neither El Niño nor […]
Intense heat from bushfires during elevated fire danger days can trigger fire-induced pyrocumulonimbus thunderstorms that ignite additional fires. In early January 2026, an extreme heatwave sweeping over southeastern Australia brought catastrophic fire danger to Victoria. Intensely hot bush and grass fires spread erratically and quickly in hot, dry and gusty winds, with pyrocumulonimbus generating lightning, […]
