Australia just had an unusually strong tropical cyclone season, despite having only six systems named inside Australia’s area of responsibility. The 2022-23 Australian tropical cyclone season officially ran from November 1, 2022, until April 30, 2023. During this six-month period, the Bureau of Meteorology assigned names to six tropical cyclones that formed inside Australia’s area […]
Surges of tropical cloud and rainfall produced a relatively cool and wet April for large parts of Australia, although a few places in Queensland registered their warmest April on record. Australia’s area-averaged rainfall during April was 41.4 mm, which is 10.9 mm above the 1961-1990 average and the country’s wettest April since 2006. The map […]
Parts of central and eastern Australia experienced their coldest morning so far this year on Monday, with more wintry temperatures on the way later this week. The first morning of May was a fittingly cold start to the final month of autumn for large areas of NSW, Qld and the NT. The cold morning was […]
Widespread rain and thunderstorms will affect eastern Australia this weekend and early next week, with parts of eastern NSW expected to see more than 100 mm of rain by Monday. A series of cold fronts and low pressure troughs will cause showers over a broad area of southern and eastern Australia during the remainder of […]
A waterspout was spotted just off the Sydney coast on Sunday. These beautiful and sometimes violent systems are often spotted off the Australian coast at this time of year, so we go through some frequently asked questions about them. Image: A waterspout spotted off the Sydney Coast on Sunday. It is likely the waterspout is […]
A satellite just captured the shadow of the Moon darting across the Indian Ocean and glancing northwestern Australia during today’s total solar eclipse. More than 20,000 people converged on Exmouth in the far northwest corner of WA on Thursday to witness a total solar eclipse. This rare spectacle occurs when the moon passes between Earth […]
More than 20,000 people are expected to converge on Exmouth this Thursday to witness a rare total solar eclipse, while the rest of Australia will be able to observe a partial eclipse. Solar eclipses occur when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, causing the moon’s shadow to pass across part of the Earth’s […]
A blob of warm water lurking beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean is increasing the likelihood that El Niño will develop later this year. The prospect of El Niño in 2023 is not new news. International forecast models have been hinting at the return of El Niño since late last year. However, these predictions […]
Tropical Cyclone Ilsa continues to intensify on Thursday morning, with a wind gust of 235 km/h recorded at 7am Rowley Shoals, a trio of tiny coral atolls located 300 km west of Broome. This is the strongest wind gust recorded anywhere in Australia since TC Debbie in 2017 Ilsa is now a Category 4 cyclone […]
Australia’s tropical cyclone season is officially underway, but we may not see much activity for few months yet. The season runs from November to April, and for mining operators and businesses across northern Australia, 2026-27 is shaping up to be a season where the headline numbers and the real risk may not line up. On […]
A positive Indian Ocean Dipole is underway, but this one is unlikely to deliver the textbook dry spring and summer that businesses have come to expect from the pattern. The Bureau of Meteorology officially declared a positive IOD on Tuesday, October 27, which typically like El Niño can cause drier and warmer conditions over parts of […]
Waters off Indonesia have cooled in recent weeks, an indication that a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event could be developing. It’s an important climate driver for Australia, and it could shape rainfall and temperatures heading into summer, with flow-on effects for farmers, energy and other industries. What is the Indian Ocean Dipole? The IOD […]
Leonora, WA, had its wettest September day on record earlier this month. Three weeks later, more than 1.3 million lightning pulses were detected within 800 km of the town in 48 hours. Why is a stalled trough delivering storms to mining country, and what it could mean for operations? The DTN Total Lightning Network detected […]
