Snow has fallen across Australia’s alpine region, and while it’s only a moderate amount, it’s a start for the peak hydropower season. Australia’s largest resort Perisher was claiming 15cm of settled snow on its snow stake, with slightly lower totals reported at other resorts, after a polar airmass briefly whipped through southeastern Australia on Tuesday […]
A huge dust storm and gusty westerly winds whipped up by a powerful cold front crossing southeastern Australia have led to airport disruptions and diversions on Monday and Tuesday. A powerful cold front passing over drought-affected areas of SA and Victoria on Monday caused dry topsoil to become airborne as strong winds scoured the parched […]
The Australian snow season is expected to take off to a slow start in 2025, but conditions could become better into the second half of the season. When is Australia’s snow season? Australia’s snow season typically runs between the long weekends in June and October. In 2025, the snow season will run from about June […]
This article was written for April Fools Day. It is not factual. A new category will be added to the Fujita scale from 2026 to formally recognise the ‘mini tornado’. The Fujita scale, and the revised Enhanced Fujita scale, are widely accepted scales used for rating tornado intensity. They both use damage assessments from past […]
Deadly wildfires have burnt across South Korea’s southeast since last weekend, claiming the lives of at least 28 people and displacing nearly 40,000. At least 28 people have lost their lives to the fire and more than 35,000 hectares of forest have burnt, displacing nearly 40,000 people from their homes. Officials on the ground are […]
Australia just recorded its second hottest summer, with southern Australia continuing to experience drought heightening fire risk in autumn. The Australasian Fire and Emergency Services Authorities Council (AFAC) released their autumn bushfire outlook for 2025 on Thursday, February 27, showing an increased fire risk stretching the coastline from Carnarvon in WA down towards the Gippsland […]
Challenging conditions for firefighters in Vic and SA have eased as a rainband and cooler temperatures bring much-needed relief. Temperatures soared into the 40s over the weekend across the two states, with the hot, dry and windy weather causing extremely dangerous fire danger. The onerous weather provided a challenge for firefighters working to contain […]
A quintessentially spring-like week is upon Australia, with a contrasting mix of thunderstorms in Queensland and Western Australia, cold and snow in Tasmania, heat in the Northern Territory and rain possibly developing in the southeast. Storms in Queensland and NSW A thunderstorm outbreak will be ramping up over eastern Qld and northeast NSW, with a […]
A clear La Niña signal is starting to emerge in the central Pacific Ocean, however the declaration of La Niña depends on a few factors that are still a coin flip chance of occurring. What is La Niña? La Niña is the cool phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that occurs when cooler […]
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 […]
